Venice Italy

Venice(Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in northern Italy, the top of the region Veneto, and has a accumulation of 271,251 (census judge January 1, 2004). Together with Padua, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area (population 1,600,000). Venice has been known as the \"La Dominante\", \"Serenissima\", \"Queen of the Adriatic\", \"City of Water\", \"City of Bridges\", and \"The City of Light\". It is thoughtful by many to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

The municipality stretches across 118 diminutive islands in the muddy Venetian Lagoon along the sea Sea in northeast Italy. The water lagoon stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of the Po (south) and the Piave (north) Rivers. The population judge of 272,000 inhabitants includes the population of the full Comune of Venezia; around 62,000 in the historic municipality of Venice (Centro storico); 176,000 in Terraferma (the Mainland), mostly in the super frazione of Mestre and Marghera; and 31,000 springy on another islands in the lagoon.

High water in Venice
 

Venice and surroundings in false color, from TERRA satellite. The picture is oriented with North at the top

The Venetian Republic was a field shipping power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as substantially as a very important edifice of mercantilism (especially silk, grain and alter trade) and prowess in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century.

Venice and its Lagoon* UNESCO World Heritage Site

Origins and history

While there are no historical records that deal direct with the origins of Venice, the available grounds has led several historians to concord that the example population of Venice comprised refugees from romish cities much asPadua, Aquileia, Altino and Concordia (modern Portogruaro) who were fleeing successive waves of Germanic invasions and Huns. [2] Some late romish sources reveal the cosmos of fishermen on the islands in the example muddy lagoons. They were referred to as incola lacunae (lagoon dwellers).

Beginning in 166-168, the Quadi and Marcomanni destroyed the main center in the area, the underway Oderzo. The romish defenses were again overthrown in the early 5th century by the Visigoths and, whatever 50 years later, by the Huns led by Attila. The last and most enduring inruption was that of the Lombards in 568. This left the Eastern romish Empire a diminutive strip of coast in underway Veneto, and the main administrative and churchlike entities were thence transferred to this remaining dominion. New ports were built, including those at Malamocco and Torcello in the Venetian lagoon.

The Asiatic ascendance of central and northern Italy was afterward mostly eliminated by the conquest of the Exarchate of Ravenna in 751 by Aistulf. During this period, the seat of the local Asiatic governor (the \"duke/doux\", after \"doge\") was situated in Malamocco. Settlement across the islands in the lagoon belike increased in correspondence with the European conquest of the Asiatic territories.

In 775-776, the jurisdiction seat of Olivolo (Helipolis) was created. During the rule of duke Agnello Particiaco (811-827) the ducal seat was touched from Malamocco to the highly fortified Rialto (Rivoalto, \"High Shore\") island, the underway location of Venice. The monastery of St. Zachary and the prototypal ducal palace and basilica of St. Mark, as substantially as a walled accumulation (civitatis murus) between Olivolo and Rialto were afterward shapely here.

In 828, the newborn city's standing was upraised by the theft of the relics of St. Mark the Evangelist from Alexandria, which were settled in the newborn basilica. The patriarchal seat was also touched to Rialto. As the community continued to develop and as Asiatic power waned, it led to the ontogeny of autonomy and eventual independence.

Piazza San Marco in Venice.

These Horses of Saint Mark are a replica of the Triumphal Quadriga captured in Constantinople in 1204 and carried to Venice as a trophy

Transportation

The Ponte dei Sospiri, the Bridge of Sighs

Venice is world-famous for its canals. It is shapely on an archipelago of 118 islands bacilliform by most 150 canals in a shallow lagoon. The islands on which the municipality is shapely are connected by most 400 bridges. In the old center, the canals serve the function of roads, and every form oftransport is on water or on foot. In the 19th century a causeway to the mainland brought a line station to Venice, and an automobile causeway and parking lot was added in the 20th century. Beyond these land entrances at the northern edge of the city, transportation within the municipality remains, as it was in centuries past, all on water or on foot. municipality is Europe's largest urbancar free area, unequalled in aggregation in remaining a sizable functioning municipality in the 21st century all without motorcars or trucks.

Waterways

The Hellenic Venetian boat is the gondola, though it is today mostly used for tourists, or for weddings, funerals, or other ceremonies. Most Venetians today movement by motorised waterbuses (vaporetti) which jaunt lawful routes along the field canals and between the city's islands. The municipality also has many clannish boats. The only gondolas ease in ordinary use by Venetians are the traghetti, foot passenger ferries crossover the Grand Canal at certain points without bridges. Visitors can also verify the watertaxis between areas of the city.

Public transportation

Azienda Consorzio Trasporti Veneziano (ACTV) is the name of the public instrumentation grouping in Venice. It combines both land transportation, with buses, and canal travel, with water buses (vaporetti). In total, there are 25 routes which connect the city.

Airports

<sup>Venice is served by the new restored Marco traveller International Airport, or Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo, named in honor of its famous citizen. The airport is on the mainland and was restored away from the coast; however, the liquid taxis or Alilaguna waterbuses to city are only a seven-minute walk from the terminals.

Some airlines mart Treviso Airport in Treviso, 20km from Venice, as a city gateway. Some only advertise flights to \"Venice\" without denotive the actualised airport except in the small print.[10]</sup>

Car

Venice is practically a no car zone, being built on the water. Cars crapper reach the car/bus tangency via the bridge (Ponte della Liberta) (SR11). It comes in from the West from Mestre. There are two parking lots which serve the city: Tronchetto and Piazzale Roma. Cars crapper be parked there 24hrs/7days a week for around 25 euros per day. From Tronchetto parking lot leaves a ferry to Lido. Tronchetto is served by vaporetti and buses of the open transportation. Currently, a grouping mastermind linking Tronchetto to Piazzale Roma is low construction. Expected time of inaugural is unknown.

View of Venice from St Mark's Campanile

Landmarks

Grand Canal A small canal in Venice (Rio della Verona)


A winter sunset across the Grand Canal from the Rialto Bridge


Piazza San Marco and its famous pigeons

Sestieri

The sestieri are the primary traditional divisions of Venice. The municipality is separated into the sextet districts of Cannaregio, San Polo, Dorsoduro (including the Giudecca), Santa Croce, San Marco (including San Giorgio Maggiore), and Castello (including San Pietro di Castello and Sant'Elena). At the face of the Gondolas that work in the municipality there is a large piece of metal intended as a icon of the Doge's hat. On this sit sextet notches pointing forwards and digit pointing backwards. Each of these represent digit of the Sestieri (the digit which points backwards represents theGiudecca).

Museums

• Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
• Casa Goldoni a Palazzo Centano
• Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro
• Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna
• Gallerie dell'Accademia
• Galleria di Palazzo Cini
• Museo Correr
• Museo d'Arte Erotica
• Museo d'Arte Orientale
• Museo del Ghetto
• Museo del Merletto di Burano
• Museo del Settecento veneziano (Ca' Rezzonico)
• Museo del Vetro di Murano
• Museo dell'Istituto Ellenico
• Museo della Fondazione Querini Stampalia
• Museo della Scuola Dalmata dei SS. Giorgio e Trifone
• Museo di Storia Naturale
• Museo di Torcello
• Museo Diocesano di Arte sacra
• Museo Ebraico
• Museo Marciano
• Museo parrocchiale San Pietro Martire
• Museo Storico Navale
• Palazzo Fortuny
• Palazzo Ducale
• Palazzo Grassi
• Peggy Guggenheim Collection
• Pinacoteca e Museo di S. Lazzaro degli Armeni
• Pinacoteca Manfrediniana
• Scuola Grande dei Carmini
• Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
• Scuola Grande di San Marco
• Scuola Grande di San Rocco

Piazzas and campi

• St Mark's Square
• Campo San Polo

Palaces and palazzi

Venice, by Bolognino Zaltieri, 1565

• Doge's Palace
• Palazzo Grassi
• Ca' d'Oro
• Ca' Rezzonico
• Peggy Guggenheim Collection
• Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo
• Fondaco dei Turchi
• Palazzo Labia
• Scuola Grande di San Marco
• Palazzo Malipiero
• Palazzo Foscari

Churches

• Basilica di San Marco
• Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute
• Other churches

St Mark's Basilica Facade of St Mark's Basilica


Two gondolas in a narrow Venetian canal


Florians coffee bar in St. Mark's Square, a famous landmark in Venice

Other buildings

• Accademia
• The Arsenal
• La Fenice opera house
• La Torre dell'Orologio (St Mark's Clock)

Bridges

• Rialto Bridge
• The Bridge of Sighs
• Accademia Bridge
• Scalzi Bridge
• Ponte della Costituzione

Surroundings

• The Venetian Lagoon
• Islands:
  
  
  • Burano
  • Lazzaretto Vecchio
  • Lido
  • Mazzorbo
  • Murano
  • Mioldalni
  • Isola di La Grazia
  • San Michele
  • Isola Di San Secondo
  • Sacca Sessola
  • Sant'Erasmo
  • Isola Di San Clemente
  • San Francesco nel Deserto
  • San Giorgio in Alga
  • San Giorgio Maggiore
  • San Lazzaro degli Armeni
  • San Servolo
  • Santo Spirito
  • Torcello
  • Vignole
  
  
  
• Giudecca

Venetian Villas

Main article: Palladian Villas of the Veneto

The villas of the Veneto, rural residences for nobles during the Republic, are one of the most engrossing aspects of Venetian countryside. They are surrounded by elegant gardens, suitable for fashionable parties of broad society. Most of these villas were designed byPalladio, and are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site . According to the architects, water around the villas was a very important architectural element because it added more splendour to the façade.