Rialto
About Rialto
The Rialto is a central area of Venice, Italy, in the sestiere of San Polo. It is, and has been for many centuries, the financial and commercial heart of the city. Rialto is known for its prominent markets as well as for the monumental Rialto Bridge across the Grand Canal.
On the show — 4 mentions total
Antonio de Ponte designed the Rialto, and this actually gets to another fact I've been trying to smuggle into this podcast for some months now, which is that Canaletto, the man most famous for painting all the canals in Venice, was born Giovanni Canal — John Canal was his name — and then he painted canals for a living.
from 582: No Such Thing As Siegfried Bassoon, 2025-05-08 at 00:03:15 · read transcript
Other times Rialto came up
I think I would, actually, because I think it's associated with certain entertainers from the 1970s that I wouldn't want to be associated with. Wow, okay. Yeah. Let's not go down that, over that bridge. Can I ask the previous bridges? This is the fourth one, the Rialto, right? Yeah. Were they all wooden and burned down or something or what? A wolf came and huffed and huffed. They were kind of a mix.
582: No Such Thing As Siegfried Bassoon, 2025-05-08 · listen
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