Bucentaur
id:
bucentaur-177-12026593
title:
Bucentaur
text:
The bucentaur was the ceremonial barge of the doges of Venice. It was used every year on Ascension Day up to 1798 to take the doge out to the Adriatic Sea to perform the "Marriage of the Sea" – a ceremony that symbolically wedded Venice to the sea. Scholars believe there were four major barges, the first significant bucentaur having been built in 1311. The last and most magnificent of the historic bucentaurs made its maiden voyage in 1729 in the reign of Doge Alvise III Sebastiano Mocenigo. Depi
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
State barge of the doges of Venice
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucentaur
date created:
2005-01-03T02:01:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T05:01:47Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q1548297","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1548297"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Guardi%2CFrancesco_-_The_Departure_of_Bucentaur_for_the_Lido_on_Ascension_Day.jpg","width":3200,"height":2139}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16