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Fire chief Eros Mannino in uniform Italian Fire Service Iveco Magirus Eurofire Stralis AT400. The Vigili del Fuoco is Italy's institutional agency for fire and rescue service.It is part of the Ministry of Interior's Dipartimento dei Vigili del Fuoco, del Soccorso Pubblico e della Difesa Civile (Department of Firefighters, Public Rescue and Civil(ian) Protection).
The historic arsenal buildings before and after restoration and construction of infrastructure to accommodate the new functions are shown below. In the control centre, key decisions will be taken on raising and lowering the mobile barriers according to measurements made by tide gauges positioned in front of the lagoon inlets to record the ...
The facade of the Doge's Palace overlooking St. Mark's Basin, in a mid-19th century photo by Carlo Ponti. The history of the Doge's palace in Venice begins in medieval times and continues with numerous extensions, renovations and demolitions aimed at adapting the building to the new needs of the city and in particular to the need to give a seat to the governing bodies that, increasing in ...
The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. The bridge's English name was bestowed by Lord Byron in the 19th century as a translation from the Italian "Ponte dei sospiri", [2] [3] from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells.
The worst flooding in Venice in more than 50 years prompted calls Wednesday to better protect the historic city from rising sea levels as officials calculated hundreds of millions of euros in damage.
The Venice Pier caught fire on December 20, 1920, just a month after the death of its developer, Abbot Kinney. The fire was first discovered in the dance hall; as the fire rose around them, the band played a rousing march to rally the guests through an orderly evacuation. [9]
The Italian city of Venice and its lagoon were not listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage in Danger list during a meeting of the UN agency in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, according to Italy’s culture ...
Jacopo de' Barbari's woodcut, the View of Venice, 1500 Venice in the late 17th and early 18th centuries The Grand Canal in Venice, c. 1730. 421 CE. Traditional date for founding of Venice, with consecration of San Giacomo di Rialto. [1] First mention of Poveglia. 452 – "Consular government adopted." [1] 697 – Paolo Lucio Anafesto becomes ...