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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. [1] Lido Island seen from the campanile of the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore.
The Venetian Lagoon (Italian: Laguna di Venezia; Venetian: Ĺaguna 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 ...
Vaporetto on the Canal Grande in Venice. Venice Vaporetto water bus system – water bus and bus stop. The vaporetto is a Venetian public waterbus.There are 19 scheduled lines [1] that serve locales within Venice, and travel between Venice and nearby islands, such as Murano, Burano, and Lido.
mlsj1_99, flickr For the tirelessly chic, summer on the Adriatic Coast might have meant a trip to Venice's exclusive Lido Beach. Once a playground for the fabulous, the beach will now be open to
Venice-Lido Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Venezia-Lido, ICAO: LIPV) is an aerodrome located right by the Monastery. It is also known as Giovanni Nicelli Airport and was formerly known as Venice-San Nicolò Airport.
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 ...
Lido and Pellestrina are two islands forming a barrier between the southern Venetian Lagoon and the Adriatic Sea. On those islands, road traffic is allowed. There are bus and waterbus services linking the islands with other islands (Venice, Murano, Burano) and with the peninsula of Cavallino-Treporti.
Venice Lido, an 11-kilometre-long barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon, Venice, Italy; Ruislip Lido, a reservoir and artificial beach in Ruislip, London, UK. Di Lido Island, a neighborhood of the South Beach district of Miami Beach, Florida; Lido Isle, Newport Beach, a man-made island, located in the harbor of Newport Beach, California