Venice
Venice Venezia | |
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| Comune di Venezia | |
 A collage o Venice: at the top left is the Piazza San Marco, follaeed bi a view o the ceety, then the Grand Canal, an (smallwer) the interior o La Fenice an feenally the Island o San Giorgio Maggiore | |
 Coat airms | |
  Venice Location o Venice in Italy | |
| Coordinates: 45°26′15″N 12°20′9″E / 45.43750°N 12.33583°ECoordinates: 45°26′15″N 12°20′9″E / 45.43750°N 12.33583°E | |
| Kintra | Italy |
| Region | Veneto |
| Province | Venice (VE) |
| Frazioni | Chirignago, Favaro Veneto, Mestre, Marghera, Murano, Burano, Giudecca, Lido, Zelarino |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Luigi Brugnaro |
| Area | |
| • Total | 414.57 km2 (160.07 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Population (2009-04-30) | |
| • Total | 270,660 |
| • Density | 650/km2 (1,700/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Venetians |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 30100 |
| Diallin code | 041 |
| Patron saunt | St. Mark the Evangelist |
| Saunt day | 25 Aprile |
| Website | Offeecial wabsteid |
| UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid | |
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| Criteria | Cultural: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi |
| Reference | 394 |
| Inscription | 1987 (11th Session) |
Venice (Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛttsja] (
listen), Venetian: Venesia) is a ceety in northren Italy kent baith for tourism an for industry, an is the caipital o the region Veneto, wi a population o aboot 272,000 (census estimate 1 Januar 2004). Thegither wi Padua, the ceety is includit in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Aurie (population 1,600,000).
The name is derived frae the auncient tribe o Veneti that inhabitit the region in Roman times.[1][2] The ceety historically wis the caipital o an independent ceety-state. Venice has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen o the Adriatic", "Ceety o Water", "Ceety o Masks", "Ceety o Brigs", "The Floatin Ceety", an "Ceety o Canals". Luigi Barzini, writin in The New York Times, described it as "undoubtedly the maist bonnie ceety built bi man".[3] Venice haes an aa been described bi the Times Online as bein ane o Europe's maist romantic ceeties.[4]
The ceety stretches athort 117 sma islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon alang the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater lagoon stretches alang the shoreline atween the mooths o the Po (sooth) an the Piave (north) Rivers. The population estimate o 272,000 inhabitants includes the population o the hale Comune o Venezie; aroond 60,000[5] in the historic ceety o Venice (Centro storico); 176,000 in Terraferma (the Mainland), maistly in the lairge frazioni o Mestre an Marghera; an 31,000 live on ither islands in the lagoon.
The Republic o Venice wis a major maritime pouer durin the Middle Ages an Renaissance, an a stagin aurie for the Crusades an the Battle o Lepanto, as well as a vera important centre o commerce (especially silk, grain an spice tred) an airt in the 13t century up tae the end o the 17t century. This made Venice a wealthy ceety throughoot maist o its history. It is an aa kent for its several important airtistic movements, especially the Renaissance period. Venice haes played an important role in the history o symphonic an operatic muisic, an it is the birthplace o Antonio Vivaldi.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Online Etymology Dictionary". Archived frae the original on 5 December 2015. Retrieved 11 Juin 2010.
- ↑ Richard Stephen Charnock (1859). Local etymology: a derivative dictionary of geographical names. Houlston and Wright. p. 288.
- ↑ Barzini, Luigi (30 Mey 1982). "The Most Beautiful and Wonderful City In The World - The". New York Times. Retrieved 28 Mairch 2009.
- ↑ Bleach, Stephen; Schofield, Brian; Crump, Vincent (17 Juin 2007). "Europes most romantic city breaks". The Times. London. Archived frae the original on 29 Juin 2011. Retrieved 27 Mey 2010.
- ↑ Mara Rumiz, Venice Demographics Official Mock funeral for Venice's 'death'
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