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The Ponte della Libertà [1] (Liberty Bridge) [2] is a road bridge connecting the islands that form the historical centre of the city of Venice to the mainland part of the city. Designed in 1932 by engineer Eugenio Miozzi , it was opened by Benito Mussolini in 1933 as Ponte Littorio (" Lictor 's bridge") – a name used during the Fascist era ...
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 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 .
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.
Town Hall (Palazzo Municipale) Cathedral Santa Maria or Garibaldi Gate Canal Vena Canal scene in late 19th-century Chioggia, by Gustav BauernfeindChioggia (Italian: [ˈkjɔddʒa]; Venetian: Cioxa, locally; Latin: Clodia) is a coastal town and comune (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Venice in the Veneto region of northern Italy.
The Stato da Màr or Domini da Mar (lit. ' State of the Sea ' or ' Domains of the Sea ') was the Republic of Venice's maritime and overseas possessions from around 1000 to 1797, including at various times parts of what are now Istria, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece and notably the Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, Crete, Cyclades, Euboea, as well as Cyprus.
The Ponte delle Guglie is one of two bridges in Venice, Italy, to span the Cannaregio Canal. It lies near the western end of the canal, by the Venezia Santa Lucia railway station. An earlier wooden bridge was built in 1285. It was replaced by the current stone and brick bridge in 1580. [1]