Venice

Venice ( , Venetian: Venesia) is a ceety in northren Italy kent baith for tourism an for industry, an is the caipital o the region Veneto, wi a population o aboot 272,000 (census estimate 1 Januar 2004). Thegither wi Padua, the ceety is includit in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Aurie (population 1,600,000).

The name is derived frae the auncient tribe o Veneti that inhabitit the region in Roman times. The ceety historically wis the caipital o an independent ceety-state. Venice has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen o the Adriatic", "Ceety o Water", "Ceety o Masks", "Ceety o Brigs", "The Floatin Ceety", an "Ceety o Canals". Luigi Barzini, writin in The New York Times, described it as "undoubtedly the maist bonnie ceety built bi man". Venice haes an aa been described bi the Times Online as bein ane o Europe's maist romantic ceeties.

The ceety stretches athort 117 sma islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon alang the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater lagoon stretches alang the shoreline atween the mooths o the Po (sooth) an the Piave (north) Rivers. The population estimate o 272,000 inhabitants includes the population o the hale Comune o Venezie; aroond 60,000Mara Rumiz, Venice Demographics Official Mock funeral for Venice's 'death' in the historic ceety o Venice (Centro storico); 176,000 in Terraferma (the Mainland), maistly in the lairge frazioni o Mestre an Marghera; an 31,000 live on ither islands in the lagoon.

The Republic o Venice wis a major maritime pouer durin the Middle Ages an Renaissance, an a stagin aurie for the Crusades an the Battle o Lepanto, as well as a vera important centre o commerce (especially silk, grain an spice tred) an airt in the 13t century up tae the end o the 17t century. This made Venice a wealthy ceety throughoot maist o its history. It is an aa kent for its several important airtistic movements, especially the Renaissance period. Venice haes played an important role in the history o symphonic an operatic muisic, an it is the birthplace o Antonio Vivaldi.

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