Venetian Arsenal

Venetian Arsenal
Arsenal
The main gate at the Venetian Arsenal
The main gate at the Venetian Arsenal
Opening date1104
OwnerItalian Republic
LocationVenice, Italy
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Stone Lion of Saint Mark above the main gate at the Arsenal
Entrance to the Arsenal ca. 1860–70. Photo by Venetian photographer Carlo Ponti.
Venetian Arsenal towers

The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) is a complex of former shipyards and armories clustered together in the city of Venice in northern Italy. Owned by the state, the Arsenal was responsible for the bulk of the Venetian Republic's naval power from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period. It was "one of the earliest large-scale industrial enterprises in history".[1][2]

  1. ^ Rondo Cameron; Larry Neal (2003). A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present. Oxford University Press. p. 161.
  2. ^ Hanson, Victor Davis (18 December 2007). Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-42518-8.