Venice

Venice is a sanctuary on a lagoon that is virtually the same as it was 600 years ago, which adds to the fascinating character. Venice has decayed since its heyday and suffers from overtourism, but the romantic charm remains.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Murano and Venice Marco Polo Airport.

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is an island town, about 1.5 km north of Venice, in northern and is considered part of Venice. It can be considered a slightly cheaper base from which to explore Venice.

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is the main airport of . It is 13 km from Venice and 8 km from and it is the third busiest airport in after and airports.

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is an in the , northern Italy, near at the northern end of the lagoon, known for its lace work and brightly coloured homes. The primary economy is tourism.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Lido and Torcello.

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If you are staying in Venice and wish to avoid the more touristy and expensive areas, along with the accompanying noise, is an under-appreciated gem.

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is a sparsely populated at the northern end of the , in north-eastern . It was first settled in 452 AD and has been referred to as the parent island from which Venice was populated.

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is the central district of Venice. It is home to many of Venice's major points of interest, and consequently can be extremely crowded with tourists, especially during the day when cruise ships unload their passengers.

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is one six sestieri that make up Venice. For many travellers, it's the first part of Venice they enter, since Venezia Santa Lucia railway station, the main railway station, is here.

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is one of the six historic sestieri of Venice, , located in the southern part of the city and known for its relatively firm terrain that earned it the name meaning "hard back" or "hard ridge" in Italian, distinguishing it from the more marshy areas of the lagoon.

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is one of six sestieri that make up Venice. Covering 86 acres along the Grand Canal, it is one of the oldest parts of the city, having been settled before the 9th century.

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is one of six sestieri that make up Venice.

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is one of the six sestieri of Venice, occupying the northwest part of the main islands. The district includes the Piazzale Roma, home to Venice's bus station and car parks, and around which is the only area of the city in which cars can travel.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Piazza San Marco and Doge’s Palace.

Square
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, often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza.

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The Doge's Palace is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main landmarks of the city of Venice in northern Italy. The palace included government offices, a jail, and the residence of the Doge of Venice, the elected authority of the former Republic of Venice.

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The is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the in Venice, Italy. Connecting the sestieri of and , it has been rebuilt several times since its first construction as a pontoon bridge in 1173, and is now a significant tourist attraction in the city.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sacca Fisola and Campalto.

Neighborhood
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is an artificial in the . It is a largely modern residential area.

Village
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is a village.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Venice

Latitude
45.4372° or 45° 26′ 14″ north
Longitude
12.3346° or 12° 20′ 5″ east
Population
43,900
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
IATA airport code
VCE
United Nations Location Code
IT VCE
Open location code
8FQJC8PM+VR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 64778090
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3164603
Wiki­data ID
Q641
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zeeuws—“Venice” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Уанаҿа”
  • Afrikaans: “Venesië”
  • Albanian: “Venecia”
  • Albanian: “Venediku”
  • Amharic: “ቬኒስ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἐνετία”
  • Arabic: “البندقية”
  • Arabic: “البندقيه”
  • Arabic: “بنادقة”
  • Arabic: “بندقية (مدينة)”
  • Arabic: “فينسيا”
  • Arabic: “فينيسيا”
  • Arabic: “مدينة البندقية”
  • Aragonese: “Benezia”
  • Aragonese: “Venecia”
  • Armenian: “Վենետիկ”
  • Arpitan: “Vènisa”
  • Asturian: “Venecia”
  • Aymara: “Venezia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Venesiya”
  • Balinese: “Vénesia”
  • Bashkir: “Венеция”
  • Basque: “Venezia”
  • Bavarian: “Venedig”
  • Belarusian: “Венецыя”
  • Belarusian: “Вэнэцыя”
  • Bengali: “ভেনিস”
  • Bosnian: “Venecija”
  • Breton: “Venezia”
  • Bulgarian: “Венеция”
  • Burmese: “ဗင်းနစ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Venècia”
  • Cebuano: “Venecia”
  • Cebuano: “Venezia”
  • Cebuano: “Venice (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Central Bikol: “Venice”
  • Central Kanuri: “Venice”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤێنیز”
  • Chechen: “Венеци”
  • Chinese: “Venezia”
  • Chinese: “威尼斯”
  • Chuvash: “Венеци”
  • Cornish: “Venis”
  • Corsican: “Venezia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Venedik”
  • Croatian: “Mleci” (historical)
  • Croatian: “Venecija”
  • Czech: “Benátky”
  • Danish: “Venedig”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Venedik”
  • Dutch: “Venetie”
  • Dutch: “Venetië”
  • Eastern Mari: “Венеций”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فينيسيا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ڤينيسيا”
  • Erzya: “Венеция ош”
  • Esperanto: “Venecio”
  • Estonian: “Veneetsia”
  • Estonian: “Venezia”
  • Extremaduran: “Venecia”
  • Extremaduran: “Venécia”
  • Faroese: “Venesia”
  • Finnish: “Venetsia”
  • French: “Cité des Doges”
  • French: “Sérénissime”
  • French: “Venise”
  • Friulian: “Vignesie”
  • Galician: “Venecia”
  • Georgian: “ვენეცია”
  • German: “Venedig”
  • German: “Venezia”
  • Greek: “Βενετία”
  • Guarani: “Venésia”
  • Gujarati: “વેનિસ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Venezia”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Vî-nì-sṳ̂”
  • Hausa: “Venezia”
  • Hebrew: “ויניציאה”
  • Hebrew: “ונציה”
  • Hindi: “वेनिस”
  • Hungarian: “Velence”
  • Icelandic: “Feneyjar”
  • Ido: “Venezia”
  • Ido: “Venizia”
  • Inari Sami: “Venetsia”
  • Indonesian: “Venesia”
  • Interlingua: “Venetia”
  • Interlingue: “Venezia”
  • Irish: “an Veinéis”
  • Irish: “An Veinéis”
  • Italian: “Serenissima”
  • Italian: “Venezia”
  • Italian: “Vinegia”
  • Japanese: “ヴェニス”
  • Japanese: “ヴェネーツィア”
  • Japanese: “ヴェネチア”
  • Japanese: “ヴェネツィア”
  • Japanese: “ベニス”
  • Japanese: “ベネチア”
  • Japanese: “ベネツィア”
  • Javanese: “Venesia”
  • Kabiyè: “Feeniizi”
  • Kabyle: “Vinisya”
  • Kannada: “ವೆನಿಸ್‌”
  • Kannada: “ವೆನಿಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ವೆನೆಸ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Veneciya”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Vinetsiya”
  • Kashubian: “Wenecjô”
  • Kazakh: “Венеция”
  • Kinaray-A: “Benesya”
  • Kinaray-A: “Binisya”
  • Kirghiz: “Венеция”
  • Komering: “Venesia”
  • Komi: “Венеция”
  • Korean: “베네치아”
  • Korean: “베니스”
  • Kotava: “Venezia”
  • Kurdish: “Venedîk”
  • Kurdish: “Vênîsiya”
  • Kurdish: “Wênîs”
  • Ladin: “Aunejia”
  • Ladin: “Serenissima”
  • Ladin: “Unejia”
  • Ladin: “Unieja”
  • Ladin: “Venedig”
  • Ladin: “Venezia”
  • Ladin: “Venice”
  • Ladino: “Venezia”
  • Lao: “ເວນີສ”
  • Latin: “Venetia”
  • Latin: “Venetiae”
  • Latin: “Venetiarum Civitas”
  • Latin: “Venetiis”
  • Latvian: “Venēcija”
  • Ligurian: “Venessia”
  • Limburgan: “Venetië”
  • Limburgan: “Venies”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Venezia”
  • Literary Chinese: “威尼斯”
  • Lithuanian: “Venecija”
  • Lombard: “Venèzia”
  • Low German: “Venies”
  • Luxembourgish: “Venedeg”
  • Macedonian: “Венеција”
  • Maithili: “भेनिस”
  • Malagasy: “Venezia”
  • Malay: “Venesia”
  • Malay: “Venezia”
  • Malay: “Venice”
  • Malayalam: “വെനീസ്”
  • Maltese: “Venezja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯚꯦꯅꯤꯁ”
  • Manx: “Venetia”
  • Manx: “Venexia”
  • Manx: “Venezia”
  • Manx: “Venice”
  • Manx: “y Veneesh”
  • Maori: “Wēneti”
  • Marathi: “व्हेनिस”
  • Mazanderani: “ونیز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Venezia”
  • Mingrelian: “ვენეცია”
  • Moksha: “Вэнэция”
  • Mongolian: “Венец”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڤينيزيا”
  • Narom: “V’nise”
  • Neapolitan: “Venezia”
  • Nepali: “भेनिस”
  • Newari: “भेनिस”
  • Northern Frisian: “Venedig”
  • Northern Sami: “Venetsia”
  • Northern Sami: “Venezia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Serenissima”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Venedig”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Venezia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Venezia”
  • Norwegian: “Venezia”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Venice”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Venècia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Venèsia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Venetia”
  • Ossetian: “Венеци”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੈਨਿਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Venezia”
  • Persian: “ونیز”
  • Picard: “Venise”
  • Piemontese: “Venessia”
  • Polish: “Wenecja”
  • Portuguese: “Veneza”
  • Pushto: “وېنيس”
  • Quechua: “Venezia”
  • Romanian: “Veneţia”
  • Romanian: “Veneția”
  • Romansh: “Vnescha”
  • Russian: “Venetia”
  • Russian: “Венеция”
  • Rusyn: “Венеція”
  • Sakizaya: “Wi-nis 威尼斯”
  • Sanskrit: “वेनिस”
  • Sardinian: “Venetzia”
  • Sardinian: “Venezia”
  • Scots: “Venice”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Venezia”
  • Serbian: “Венеција”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Venecija”
  • Sicilian: “Vinezzia”
  • Silesian: “Wynecyjo”
  • Sinhala: “වැනීසිය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Venetsia”
  • Slovak: “Benátky”
  • Slovenian: “Benetke”
  • Somali: “Venice”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ونیز”
  • Spanish: “Venecia”
  • Spanish: “Venézia”
  • Sundanese: “Vénésia”
  • Swahili: “Venezia”
  • Swedish: “Venedig”
  • Swedish: “Venezia”
  • Swiss German: “Venedig”
  • Tagalog: “Venecia”
  • Tagalog: “Venezia”
  • Tajik: “Венетсия”
  • Talysh: “Venesijə”
  • Talysh: “Venetsiya”
  • Tamil: “வெனிசு”
  • Tatar: “Венеция”
  • Telugu: “వెనిస్”
  • Thai: “เวนิส”
  • Tibetan: “ཝེ་ནེ་ཟི་ཡ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Venedig”
  • Turkish: “Venedik”
  • Twi: “Venezia”
  • Udmurt: “Венеция”
  • Uighur: “Wénitsiye”
  • Uighur: “ۋېنىتسىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Венеція”
  • Urdu: “وینس”
  • Uzbek: “Venesiya”
  • Uzbek: “Venetsiya”
  • Venetian: “Venesia”
  • Venetian: “Venèsia”
  • Venetian: “Venexia”
  • Venetian: “Venezia”
  • Venetian: “Venezsia”
  • Veps: “Venecii”
  • Vietnamese: “Venezia”
  • Vietnamese: “Venice”
  • Vietnamese: “Vơ-ni-dơ”
  • Vlaams: “Venetië”
  • Vlax Romani: “Venice”
  • Volapük: “Venezia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Venesya”
  • Welsh: “Fenis”
  • Western Armenian: “Վենետիկ”
  • Western Frisian: “Feneesje”
  • Western Panjabi: “وینس”
  • Wu Chinese: “威尼斯”
  • Xhosa: “IVenice”
  • Yakut: “Венеция”
  • Yiddish: “ווענעציע”
  • Yue Chinese: “威尼斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Venetië”
  • “ma tomo Wenesija”
  • “Venezia”
  • “Venêzia”
  • “Venezie”

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