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Venice, (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venexia) is the capital of the region of Veneto and the province of the same name in Italy. Its population is 271,663 (census estimate January 1, 2004). The city is included, with Padua (Padova), in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area, population 1,600,000. It has the nickname, "Queen of the Adriatic" and "City of Water". This city is said to be the most beautiful in the world. 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. The population estimate of 272,000 inhabitants includes the population of the whole Comune of Venezia; the historic city of Venice (Centro storico) inhabitants are around 62,000, while approximately 176,000 people live in Terraferma (literally firm land, it means the extra-lagoon areas), mostly in the large frazione of Mestre and 31,000 live in other islands of the lagoon. The Venetian Republic was a major sea power and a staging area for the Crusades, as well as a very important centre of commerce (especially the spice trade) and art in the Renaissance.
Venice is world-famous for its canals. It is built on an archipelago of 118
islands formed by about 150 canals in a shallow lagoon. The islands on which
the city is built are connected by about 400 bridges. In the old center, the
canals serve the function of roads, and every form of transport is on water
or on foot. In the 19th century a causeway to the mainland brought a railway
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 city remains, as it was in centuries past, entirely
on water or on foot. Venice is Europe's largest urban carfree area, unique in
Europe in remaining a sizable functioning city in the 21st century entirely
without motorcars or trucks.
Two vaporetti approach each other on the Canale Grande.
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Two vaporetti approach each other on the Canale Grande.
The classical Venetian boat is the gondola, although it is now mostly used for tourists, or for weddings, funerals, or other ceremonies. Most Venetians now travel by motorised waterbuses ("vaporetti") which ply regular routes along the major canals and between the city's islands. The city also has many private boats. The only gondolas still in common use by Venetians are the traghetti, foot passenger ferries crossing the Grand Canal at certain points without bridges.
Venice is served by the newly rebuilt Marco Polo International Airport, or Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo, named in honor of its famous citizen. The airport is on the mainland and was rebuilt away from the coast so that visitors now need to get a bus to the pier, from which a water taxi or Alilaguna waterbus can be used.
Piazzas and campi of Venice * Piazza San Marco
* Campo San Polo
[edit] Palaces and palazzi
* 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
[edit] Churches
* Basilica di San Marco
* Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute
* Other churches
[edit] Other buildings
* Accademia
* The Arsenal
* La Fenice opera house
[edit] Bridges and canals
* Rialto Bridge
* The Bridge of Sighs
* Accademia Bridge
* Scalzi Bridge
* Piazzale Roma Footbridge
[edit] Surroundings
* The Venetian Lagoon
* Islands:
o Burano
o Lido
o Murano
o San Michele
o Sant'Erasmo
o San Lazzaro degli Armeni
o Torcello
o Vignole
* Giudecca
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