Noun:

रिआल्टो,

rialto's Usage Examples:

The Rialto bridge at Venice, with a span of 91 ft., was built in 1588 by Antonio da Ponte.

It purports to have been indited from the Rialto at Venice by Pope Alexander III.

There was for the future one Venice and one Venetian people dwelling at Rialto, the city of compromise between the dangers from the mainland, exemplified by Attila and Alboin, and the perils from the sea, illustrated by Pippin's attack.

The concentration at Rialto marks the beginning of the history of Venice as a full-grown state.

The intricate water-ways and the stubborn Venetian defence baffled all his attempts to reach Rialto; the summer heats came on; the Lido was unhealthy.

But the Venetians, in face of the danger, once more removed their capital, this time to Rialto, that group of islands we now call Venice, lying in mid-lagoon between the lidi and the mainland.

Meantime the internal politics of Venice had been steadily preparing the way for the approaching fusion at Rialto.

These twelve townships were Grado, Bibione, Caorle, Jesolo, Heraclea, Torcello, Murano, Rialto, Malamocco, Poveglia, Chioggia and Sottomarina.

On each occasion, no doubt, some of the refugees remained behind in the islands, and gradually built and peopled the twelve lagoon townships, which formed the germ of the state of Venice and were subsequently concentrated at Rialto or in the city we now know as Venice.

Among modern monuments the most successful is that to Goldoni at San Bartolomeo near the Rialto.