Venice
Venice is a
city in northeastern Italy sited on a group of 117 small islands separated by canals
and linked by bridges. It is located in the marshy Venetian Lagoon which
stretches along the shoreline, between the mouths of the Po and the Piave
Rivers. Parts of Venice are renowned for the beauty of their settings, their
architecture, and artwork.A part of the city is listed as a World Heritage
Site, along with its lagoon.Venice is the capital of the Veneto region. In
2009, there were 270,098 people residing in Venice's comune (the population
estimate of 272,000 inhabitants includes the population of the whole Comune of
Venezia; of whom around 60,000 live in the historic city of Venice (Centro
storico); 176,000 in Terraferma (the mainland), mostly in the large frazioni
(roughly equivalent to "parishes" or "wards" in other
countries) of Mestre and Marghera; and 31,000 on other islands in the lagoon).
Together with Padua and Treviso, the city is included in the
Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), with a total population of
2,600,000. PATREVE is only a statistical metropolitan area without any degree
of autonomy. The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited
the region by the 10th century BC. The city was historically the capital of the
Republic of Venice. Venice has been known as the "La Dominante",
"Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water",
"City of Masks", "City of Bridges", "The Floating
City", and "City of Canals".The Republic of Venice was a major
maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for
the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of
commerce (especially silk, grain, and spice) and art in the 13th century up to
the end of the 17th century.
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