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Venice is the most visited romantic city in the world spend a romantic charming touring vacations in Venice tourism top quality infos about traveling to Venice walks and tours complete objective information on Venice travel including photos best reviews attractions hotels restaurants nightlife travel tips. Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venezsia, Latin: Venetia) is a city in northern Italy, the capital of region Veneto, and has a population of 271,251 (census estimate January 1, 2004). Together with Padua, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area (population 1,600,000). Venice's nicknames include "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Bridges", and "The City of Light".
Venice is the most romantic city in the world; its unique watery landscape gives the city a magical quality that is irresistible. Venice has plenty of well-known monuments and galleries to explore but one of the greatest pleasures here is to stroll through the maze of tiny streets and canals with charming stone bridges, pretty little squares and local bars and cafes to discover. Further a field and easily reached by waterbus are the other islands in the Lagoon including the Lido, Murano and Burano.
the city of the canals. This city is known as the most serene (the ‘serenissima’) among Venetians, because of the absence of cars and mopeds in its streets.
Millions of tourists come here every year to visit this mythical city. If you stay with me, I’ll try to show you the city’s many architectural and artistic attractions, and explain you some interesting things about its history.
The city stretches across 117 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; around 62,000 in the historic city of Venice (Centro storico); 176,000 in Terraferma (literally firm land, the areas outside the lagoon), mostly in the large frazione of Mestre and Marghera; and 31,000 live on other islands in the lagoon.
The Venetian Republic was a major maritime power and a staging area for the Fourth Crusade, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain and spice trade) and art in the Renaissance and up to the end of the 17th century.
Learn more about the best Venice tourist attractions with these sites:
VISITING VENICE What to see in Venice: some touring ideas... St. Mark's Square plus the Doge's Palace (center of the government for centuries), The Bridge of Sighs and The Prisons.
Ca' Rezzonico (an 18th Century Museum).This elegant and refined palace is on display in the style of a residence more than a museum. It contains frescoes, paintings, furniture and pieces of sculpture dating from the above era.
Ca' Mocenigo: this palace also dates from the 18th Century, and its museum contains examples of the clothes, robes, lace and material typical of that era.
A private Palace Ca' Zenobio, property of the Armenians contains an extraordinary frescoed salon in the Baroque Style, plus a pleasant garden, which is half Italian and half English in style. The Accademia is the most important museum regarding the history of Venetian painting.
The Correr Art Gallery contains a comprehensive collection of paintings dating from the Gothic to the Renaissance era. Venice has more than 100 churches and many confraternities However, you can relax, we'll only visit some of them! Frari Church: a Gothic Franciscan Church containing two masterpieces by Titian (one of the greatest 16th Century Venetian painters), combined with a tour of The Confraternity of S. Rocco: where you can see some of Tintoretto's masterpieces (he was Titian's greatest artistic rival). The Church of Ss. John and Paul: a Gothic Dominican Church, called "the Pantheon of Venice" containing a lot of monuments and pieces of sculpture, plus many important paintings. can be seen together with The Dalmatian Confraternity: where a fascinating series of paintings by Carpaccio, one of the first artists to depict stories from the early Renaissance, is on display. The Churches of S.Giorgio and the Redentore: are both churches built by Palladio, the architect whose villas and government buildings are well known all over the world.
BEST RECOMMENDED WEBSITES ABOUT VENICE:
Sito ufficiale del Comune di Venezia. Official website of the Municipality of Venice, Italy
http://www.comune.venezia.it
http://www.venezia.net
http://www.venetia.it
Venice powered by www.enit.it
Venice by Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice
Venice by VirtualTourism.com http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Italy/Veneto/Venice-140867/TravelGuide-Venice.html
CHARMING ACCOMMODATIONS IN VENICE: The Great Hotels Organisation has searched Venice for the best hotels for the most discerning travellers. Many Venice hotels are part of an international network of the world's best hotels, to make your Venice travel a uniquely interesting and pleasurable experience. Charming accommodations in Venice by www.hotel-discount.it
HOTELS IN VENICE: Hotels & Resort guarantee charm luxury elegance in the most prestigious hotel the best romantic charming nights !
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B&B VENICE: Bed and Breakfast in Venice saving discounts with charm !
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APARTMENTS IN VENICE: Romantic cozy clean feel like at home ! http://www.hotel-discount.it/lodging-europe/italy/veneto/venice-apartments-booking-lastminute.htm
TOWN HOUSE IN VENICE and SUITES IN VENICE: Be free to live in Venice best low budget vacation.
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RESIDENCES IN VENICE: unforgettable stay in a charming dream! http://www.hotel-discount.it/lodging-europe/italy/veneto/venice-residences-booking-residence-lastminute.htm
Venice tours Italy and Venice sightseeing tours. Many good services proposes you Venice tours, sightseeing day tours in/out Venice and tours in Italy.
Venice walking tours 2 hours tours are ideal for discovering Venice and its famous monuments. We offer a varied selection of Venice walking tours and canal boat tour : Original Venice walk, Cannaregio & Jewish Ghetto walk, etc...
Venice canal boat tours Canal boat tours will help you to discover the treasures of one of the most beautifull city in the world. They will take you along the canals back in time, on an animated journey through the history and art of Venice...
Venice night tours Venice by night is a place of romance and mystery. The streets dimly lit and deserted are a place where long shadows loom and footsteps echo in the distance. Discover our tour of Venice by night, spend your evening tasting wine with our private wine tasting tour, etc..
Day tours out of Venice Spend a delightfull day out of Venice and visit different places as the Dolomites, the Hill towns of Veneto, the villas of Palladio and more...
VISITING VENICE What to see in Venice: some touring ideas... St. Mark's Square plus the Doge's Palace (center of the government for centuries), The Bridge of Sighs and The Prisons.
Ca' Rezzonico (an 18th Century Museum).This elegant and refined palace is on display in the style of a residence more than a museum. It contains frescoes, paintings, furniture and pieces of sculpture dating from the above era.
Ca' Mocenigo: this palace also dates from the 18th Century, and its museum contains examples of the clothes, robes, lace and material typical of that era.
A private Palace Ca' Zenobio, property of the Armenians contains an extraordinary frescoed salon in the Baroque Style, plus a pleasant garden, which is half Italian and half English in style. The Accademia is the most important museum regarding the history of Venetian painting.
The Correr Art Gallery contains a comprehensive collection of paintings dating from the Gothic to the Renaissance era.
Venice has more than 100 churches and many confraternities However, you can relax, we'll only visit some of them! Frari Church: a Gothic Franciscan Church containing two masterpieces by Titian (one of the greatest 16th Century Venetian painters), combined with a tour of The Confraternity of S. Rocco: where you can see some of Tintoretto's masterpieces (he was Titian's greatest artistic rival). The Church of Ss. John and Paul: a Gothic Dominican Church, called "the Pantheon of Venice" containing a lot of monuments and pieces of sculpture, plus many important paintings. can be seen together with The Dalmatian Confraternity: where a fascinating series of paintings by Carpaccio, one of the first artists to depict stories from the early Renaissance, is on display. The Churches of S.Giorgio and the Redentore: are both churches built by Palladio, the architect whose villas and government buildings are well known all over the world.
The Ghetto: formerly the Jewish quarter in Venice, plus a walk around the northern district of the city.
S. Margherita: which is located in the southern district of Venice, and is close to the largest canal in the city.
the Venice Lagoon ! with its landscape of sandbanks and islands, some of which are very famous, such as Murano (the glass-making island), Burano (the lace-making island) and Torcello (the first island to be inhabited in Venice).
Venice also has more than five hundred gardens but almost all of them are private and it is not easy to see them.
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