The Phoenix in Greek mythology was a bird that continuously rose from the ashes and was reborn. In Italian it’s called Fenice and its appropriate that the Venice opera house adopted this name because the building burned down in 1774, 1836 and 1996. Teatro La Fenice’s last rebirth was in 2004. However, as you can see from this close up, the Roman numeral date shows 1792 when this neoclassical façade was built.