Venice is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 126 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals;portions of the city are linked by 472 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon,an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers. In 2020,around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the Comune di Venezia,of whom around 51,000 live in the historical island city of Venice and the rest on the mainland (terraferma). Together with the cities of Padua and Treviso,Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE),which is considered a statistical metropolitan area,with a total population of 2.6 million.
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The Venetian Lagoon 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 salt water,a lagoon.
Poveglia is a small island located between Venice and Lido in the Venetian Lagoon,of northern Italy. A small canal divides the island into two separate parts. The island first appears in the historical record in 421,and was populated until the residents fled warfare in 1379. For more than 100 years beginning in 1776,the island was used as a quarantine station for those suffering the plague and other diseases,and later as a mental hospital. The mental hospital closed in 1968,and the island has been vacant ever since. Because of its history,the island is frequently featured on paranormal shows.
Fincantieri S.p.A. is an Italian shipbuilding company based in Trieste,Italy. Already the largest shipbuilder in Europe,after the acquisition of Vard in 2013,Fincantieri group doubled in size to become the fourth largest in the world (2014). The company builds both commercial and military vessels.
Mirano is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Venice,Veneto,Italy.
The politics of Veneto,a region of Italy,takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democracy,whereby the President is the head of government,and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Regional Government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Regional Council.
Italia Nostra is an Italian not for profit organization dedicated to the protection and promotion of the country’s historical,artistic and environmental patrimony.
Venezia Football Club,commonly referred to as Venezia,is a professional Italian football club based in Venice,Veneto,that currently plays in Serie A.
The Mayor of Venice is an elected politician who,along with the Venice City Council of 36 members,is accountable for the strategic government of the municipality of Venice,Veneto,Italy.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Venice,Veneto,Italy.
Giancarlo Ligabue was an Italian paleontologist,scholar,politician and businessman.
Daniele Magro is an Italian professional basketball player for Eurobasket Roma in the Italian Serie A2 Basket,second tier national league,as a center.
The Metropolitan City of Venice is a metropolitan city in the Veneto region of Italy,one of ten metropolitan cities in Italy. Its capital is the city of Venice. It replaced the province of Venice in 2015 and includes the city of Venice and 43 comuni. It was first created by the reform of local authorities and then established by Law 56/2014.
On 29 May 2018,Benjamin Herman,a prisoner on temporary leave from prison,stabbed two female police officers,took their guns,shot and killed them and a civilian in Liège,Belgium. The gunman took a woman hostage before he was killed by police. The attacker had since 2017 been suspected of having been radicalised in prison after converting to Islam,and was reported to be part of the entourage of a prison Islamist recruiter. The method of the attack was said by investigators to match and be specifically encouraged by the Islamic State which claimed the attack. Prosecutors say they are treating the attacks as "terrorist murder". The attack is treated as "jihadist terrorism" by Europol.
Cambiamo! was a centre-right political party in Italy,led by Giovanni Toti.
Davide Casarin is an Italian professional basketball player who plays for Umana Reyer Venezia of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). Standing at 1.96 m,he plays the guard positions.
On 25 March 2021,Venice celebrated the 1,600th anniversary of its founding.
Coraggio Italia is a liberal-conservative political party in Italy,led by Luigi Brugnaro.
Italy in the Centre was a liberal-conservative political party in Italy led by Giovanni Toti.
