# Castello, Venice

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For other uses, see [Castello (disambiguation)](/source/Castello_(disambiguation)).

**Castello** is the largest of the six [sestieri of Venice](/source/Sestiere_(Venice)), Italy.

## History

There had been, since at least the 8th-century, small settlements of the islands of [San Pietro di Castello](/source/San_Pietro_di_Castello_(island)) (for which the sestiere is named). This island was also called [Isola d'Olivolo](/source/San_Pietro_di_Castello_(island)).

From the thirteenth century onward, the district grew around a [naval](/source/Navy) [dockyard](/source/Dockyard) on what was originally the [Isole Gemini](/source/Isole_Gemini) (Corresponding to [San Lorenzo](/source/San_Lorenzo,_Venice) and [San Martino](/source/San_Martino,_Venice)). The land in the district was dominated by the *[Arsenale](/source/Venetian_Arsenal)* of the [Republic of Venice](/source/Republic_of_Venice), then the largest naval complex in Europe. A [Greek mercantile community](/source/Greek_community_in_Venice) numbering around 5,000 in the Renaissance and late Middle Ages was based in this district, with the [Flanginian School](/source/Flanginian_School) and the Greek Orthodox Church of [San Giorgio dei Greci](/source/San_Giorgio_dei_Greci) being located here, of which the former comprises the [Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice](/source/Hellenic_Institute_of_Byzantine_and_Post-Byzantine_Studies_in_Venice)[1] and the latter is now the seat of the [Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy](/source/Greek_Orthodox_Archdiocese_of_Italy).

Other significant structures were by the [monasteries](/source/Monastery) in the north of the quarter.

[Napoleon](/source/Napoleon) closed the Arsenal and planned what are now the [Bienniale Gardens](/source/Giardini_della_Biennale). More recently the island of [Sant'Elena](/source/Sant'Elena_(island)) has been created, and more land drained at other extremities of Castello.

## Landmarks

Prominent sites and buildings in Castello include:

- [Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo](/source/Church_of_Santi_Giovanni_e_Paolo) (San Zanipoli)
- Church of [San Giorgio dei Greci](/source/San_Giorgio_dei_Greci)
- [Campo Santa Maria Formosa](/source/Campo_Santa_Maria_Formosa) and Church of [Santa Maria Formosa](/source/Santa_Maria_Formosa)
- Church and [Ospedale della Pietà](/source/Ospedale_della_Piet%C3%A0)
- [Church of San Zaccaria](/source/Church_of_San_Zaccaria)
- Church of [San Giovanni di Malta](/source/San_Giovanni_di_Malta,_Venice)
- Scuola of [San Giorgio degli Schiavoni](/source/San_Giorgio_degli_Schiavoni)
- [Scuola di San Marco](/source/Scuola_di_San_Marco)
- [Venetian Arsenal](/source/Venetian_Arsenal)
- [Church of Sant'Elena](/source/Sant'Elena,_Venice)
- [Palazzo Malipiero-Trevisan](/source/Palazzo_Malipiero-Trevisan)
- [Palazzo Vitturi](/source/Palazzo_Vitturi)
- [Palazzo Zorzi Bon](/source/Palazzo_Zorzi_Bon)

## See also

- c. Sestieri of Venice

## References

1. Greece: Books and Writers (PDF). Ministry of Culture — National Book Centre of Greece. 2001. p. 54. ISBN 960-7894-29-4.

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