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The Venice Lagoon is mostly included in the Metropolitan City of Venice, but the south-western area is part of the Province of Padua. The largest islands or archipelagos by area, excluding coastal reclaimed land and the coastal barrier beaches: Venice 5.17 km 2; Sant'Erasmo 3.26 km 2; Murano 1.17 km 2; Chioggia 0.67 km 2; Giudecca 0.59 km 2 ...
The Lazzaretto Vecchio ("Old Lazaret"), formerly known as Santa Maria di Nazareth ("Holy Mary of Nazareth"), is an island of the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, located near the Lido of Venice. Between 1403 and 1630 it housed a hospital which cared for people during the plague epidemics and as a leper colony , giving rise to the English words ...
Punta della Dogana is an art museum in one of Venice's old customs buildings, the Dogana da Mar.It also refers to the triangular area of Venice where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal, and its collection of buildings: the church of Santa Maria della Salute, (hence the area is also known as Punta della Salute), the Patriarchal Seminary of Venice, and Dogana da Mar at the triangle's tip.
The Gulf of Venice [1] is an informally recognized gulf of the Adriatic Sea. It lies at the extreme north end of the Adriatic, limited on the southwest by the easternmost point of the Po Delta in Italy and on the southeast by the southernmost point of the Istrian Peninsula in Croatia .
Venice – city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is situated across a group of 118 small islands [1] that are separated by canals and linked by bridges, of which there are 400. [2] [3] The islands are located in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay that lies between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers.
Eraclea Mare is known for its pinewood and the Laguna del Mort 'Lagoon of the Dead'. The Lagoon, an unusual natural formation, was caused by the overflowing of the Piave river in 1935, whose bed was modified in its last stretch after a large flood.
Piazzas and campos in Venice (1 C, 15 P) S. Sestieri of Venice (6 C, 8 P) V. Venetian Lagoon (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Geography of Venice"
The Venetian Waterway Park is a 9.3-mile (15.0 km) concrete trail in Sarasota County, Florida located in Venice.It was a public–private partnership between Venice Area Beautification Inc. (VABI), Sarasota County, and the city of Venice. [1]