Ponte Girevole
The swing bridge crosses the navigable canal that links the two seas, opening to let naval ships pass between the Mar Grande and the Mar Piccolo.
Tabula geographica minimalis · Italy
40.4644° N / 17.2471° E
A city split between two seas, its old town on a small island joined to the mainland by bridges.





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In pariete



Tabula
Taranto is known in Italy as the city of two seas. The Mar Grande, an open bay on the Gulf of Taranto, lies to the west, and the Mar Piccolo, an enclosed inner sea, lies to the north-east. The city occupies the strip of land between them, and its map is defined by water on almost every side.
The old town sits on a small island, once the tip of a peninsula, reached from the new town by a swing bridge over a navigable canal and from the west by a second bridge. South-east of it the nineteenth-century Borgo Nuovo spreads in a regular grid, while the naval base and the vast steelworks occupy the shores beyond.
The city began as Taras, a colony founded by Spartans in the eighth century BC, and its national archaeological museum holds much from that period. A Taranto map poster shows a place shaped by that ancient choice of site: a narrow neck of land, a sheltered inner sea and a harbour that is still in use.
The swing bridge crosses the navigable canal that links the two seas, opening to let naval ships pass between the Mar Grande and the Mar Piccolo.
The Città Vecchia is a tight, oval knot of narrow alleys on its island, instantly readable against the open water and the wider streets of the new town.
The inner sea spreads into two lobed basins, traditionally used for mussel farming, and its irregular shoreline gives the upper half of the map its shape.
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Cur Taranto
Taranto is a strong map for anyone with roots in Apulia or memories of the southern coast. The two seas give it a composition that works on its own, with or without knowing the city, and the island old town draws the eye.
Give it your own title, add a subtitle with a surname or year, and keep the coordinates or change them. It comes in Classic black & white, Noir, Paper, Blueprint and Sand, as a $9 HD download or a printed poster on matte paper.
Eme tabulam Taranto| Magnitudo impressionis | Resolutio | Fasciculi |
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| 30 × 40 cm (11.8 × 15.7″) | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3, 11.7 × 16.5″) | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2, 16.5 × 23.4″) | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm (18 × 24″) | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm (19.7 × 27.6″) | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm (24 × 36″) | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
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