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The names of the canals were given by Abbot Kinney as follows: Aldebaran Canal, Altair Canal, Cabrillo Canal, Coral Canal, Grand Canal, Lion Canal and Venus Canal. Another set of canals was built south of the Venice Canals, originally known as the New Amsterdam Canals by investors and architects, namely Howland, Sherman and Clark, land owners ...
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 ...
The John Nolen Plan of Venice Historic District is a U.S. historic district located on the west coast of Venice, Florida.The district, planned by John Nolen in 1926 for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, [2] is bounded by Laguna Drive on north, Home Park Road on east, the Corso on south, and The Esplanade on west. [3]
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.
The canals have since become an expensive residential section and many large, modern houses have been built. The Venice Canal Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. The Venice Pier's demise came in 1946 when the city did not renew the lease on the tidelands.
The Lagoon in its present configuration is a narrow elongated area covered by very shallow water and is separated from the ocean by a strand or bar of beach sand. Its entire length lies within 1,000 yards (910 m) of the ocean. It connects to the Venice Canals to the northwest and to the ocean channel entrance to Marina Del Rey on the southeast.
The Cannaregio Canal, the main artery of Cannaregio, seen from the Grand Canal. Location of Cannaregio within Venice. Cannaregio (Italian pronunciation: [kannaˈredʒo]) is the northernmost of the six historic sestieri of Venice. It is the second largest sestiere by land area and the largest by population, with 13,169 people as of 2007. [1] [2]
In Venice Bay, a mobile home community on Robert’s Bay was submerged by Milton’s surge. The roads in Venice Bay Adult Park, a community for people 55 and older, were rivers.