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The Venetian Lagoon (Italian: Laguna di Venezia; Venetian: Łaguna de Venesia) is an enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated. Its name in the Italian and Venetian languages , Laguna Veneta (cognate of Latin lacus ' lake ' ), has provided the English name for an enclosed, shallow embayment of ...
File:Lagoon-of-venice-landsat-1.jpg overlaid with File:Italy location map.svg, with position box added Author NASA for the image, user:NordNordWest for the map
Module:Location map/data/Italy Venetian Lagoon is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Venetian Lagoon. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
The Lido, or Venice Lido (Italian: Lido di Venezia), is an 11-kilometre-long (7-mile) barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon, Northern Italy; it is home to about 20,400 residents. The Venice Film Festival takes place at the Lido in late August/early September.
Map this section's coordinates in "List of islands of Italy" using ... The most important of the 130 islands in the Venetian Lagoon are: Venice 5.17 km 2 (2.00 sq ...
The lagoon and a part of the city are listed as a World Heritage Site. [2] The Republic of Venice was a major financial and maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance , and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto , as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain, and spice ) and art in the ...
Torcello (Latin: Torcellum; Venetian: Torceło) is a sparsely populated [1] island at the northern end of the Venetian Lagoon, in north-eastern Italy. It was first settled in 452 AD [2] and has been referred to as the parent island from which Venice was populated. It was a town with a cathedral and bishops before St Mark's Basilica was built ...
Giudecca (Italian: [dʒuˈdɛkka]; Venetian: Zueca) is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, in northern Italy. It is part of the sestiere of Dorsoduro and is a locality of the comune of Venice . Geography