Venice Arsenal
1104 - Heritage site
Overview
The state shipyard of the Venetian Republic, producing war galleys with standardized parts and staged assembly a hundred years before the term factory existed. Thousands of arsenalotti workers could fit out a galley in a day, the largest industrial complex in Europe before the Industrial Revolution.
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