Arsenale
Many conquers of lasnds overseas were possible thanks to the great efficiency and know how about ships building.
On the pre-industrial era it was the biggest Arsenal ever seen in the world, the area measured 46 hectare, also the number of people employed was enormous, they were over 2000.
It was built on a strategic position , so it was easily defendable and almost impossible to attack.
After the XIII century enlargement works begin, the Arsenale nuovo the Corderie. The Fonderie, the Artillery assembly it becomes a real economic resource and a trade centre with other cities on the sea.
After the 1453 and the fall of Constantinople the arsenal was a real defence against Turkish invasion. The first renaissance operas where the two doors, one on the sea and one on the land Erected on the beginning of 600.
On a new area called Tana the corderie were erected, there the naval ropes were built on an industrial level, it was a precious product for those times at a low cost, this allow the city to be independent from third party in case of war, the raw materials was imported from the Don River on the Azov Sea, where the Venetians has some important trade business.
The following Napoleonic government on the Italian Reign, which Venice was part, partially modified the Arsenal asset in order to increase the productivity.
On the following years the Arsenal goes into a slow decline, unable to satisfy the enormous needs of the modern naval force, it was partially abandoned, on the last few years some cultural happening were organized to revitalize the area, however a complete recover it’ s problematic due to the big size of the area
