Venice

Venice (Italian: Venezia), the "city of canals", is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice, {{coor dm|45|26|N|12|19|E|}}, population 271,663 (census estimate 2004-01-01). The city is included, with Padua (Padova), in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area, population 1,600,000. The city stretches across numerous small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater lagoon stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of the Po (south) and the Piave (north) Rivers.

Miscellaneous

• The city's patron is St. Mark the Evangelist.
• Venice is also famous world-wide for its unique Carnival.
• Venice and its lagoon are listed as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.

Famous Venetians

• Marco Polo (1254-1324), traveller.
• Titian (1477?1576), painter.
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), composer, musician.
• Canaletto (1697-1768), painter.
• Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), legendary womanizer.
• Hugo Pratt (1927-1995), cartoonist and creator of Corto Maltese.
• Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793), writer
• Veronica Franco (1546-1591), poet and courtesan during the Renaissance

Foreign words of Venetian origin

• arsenal, ciao, ghetto, gondola, lagoon, lido, Montenegro.
• "Venezuela" means "little Venice".

See also

• Doges of Venice
• Venice Arsenal
• Venice Film Festival (This article incorporates some information taken from http://www.hostkingdom.net by permission.)
• Venice Biennale
• List of places known as 'the Venice of something'
• Venetia
• Venetian School of music composition (1550-1610)
• Venetian polychoral style Music in St. Mark's
• Fourth Crusade
• Duchy of the Archipelago
• List of painters and architects of Venice
• List of architecture monuments of Venice