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.Photo: Horst-schlaemma, CC0.
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Popular Destinations
Murano
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Murano is an island town, about 1.5 km north of Venice, in northern Italy and is considered part of Venice.
Venice Marco Polo Airport
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Venice Marco Polo Airport is the main airport of Veneto.
Burano
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Burano is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, near Torcello at the northern end of the lagoon, known for its lace work and brightly coloured homes.
Destinations
Lido
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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, Lido is an under-appreciated gem.
Torcello
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Torcello is a sparsely populated island at the northern end of the Venetian Lagoon, in north-eastern Italy.
San Marco
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San Marco 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.
Dorsoduro
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Dorsoduro is one of the six sestieri of Venice, in northern Italy.
Castello
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Castello is the largest of the six sestieri of Venice, Italy.
Santa Croce
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Santa Croce is one of the six sestieri of Venice, northern Italy.
Notable Places in the Area
Doge's Palace
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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.
Rialto Bridge
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The Rialto Bridge is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.
Bridge of Sighs
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The Bridge of Sighs is a bridge in Venice, Italy. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone, has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace.
Localities in the Area
Sacca Fisola
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Sacca Fisola is an artificial island in the Venetian Lagoon.
Venice
- Type: City with 263,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Veneto, Italy
- Neighbors: Chioggia, Jesolo and Quarto d'Altino
- Categories: commune of Italy, carfree city, port settlement, big city, Italian city-state, car-free place and locality
- Location: Metropolitan Venice, Veneto, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
45.4372° or 45° 26' 14" northLongitude
12.3346° or 12° 20' 5" eastPopulation
263,000Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)IATA airport code
VCEUnited Nations Location Code
IT VCEOpen Location Code
8FQJC8PM+VROpenStreetMap ID
node 64778090OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3164603Wikidata ID
Q641Venice Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Vinisya
- Abkhazian: Уанаҿа
- Afar: Veneciya
- Afrikaans: Venesië
- Akan: Venice
- Albanian: Venecia
- Albanian: Venediku
- Amharic: ቬኒስ
- Arabic: Venesya
- 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
- 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 Kurdish: ڤێنیز
- Chechen: Венеци
- Chinese: Venezia
- Chinese: 威尼斯
- Chuvash: Венеци
- Cornish: Venis
- Corsican: Venezia
- Crimean Tatar: Venedik
- Croatian: Venecija
- Czech: Benátky
- Danish: Venedig
- Dimli (individual language): Venedik
- Dutch: Venetie
- Dutch: Venetië
- Eastern Mari: Венеций
- Egyptian Arabic: فينيسيا
- Egyptian Arabic: ڤينيسيا
- English: Serenissima
- English: Venetia
- English: Venexia
- English: Venezia
- English: Venice, Italy
- Erzya: Венеция ош
- Esperanto: Venecio
- Estonian: Veneetsia
- Estonian: Venezia
- Extremaduran: Venécia
- Faroese: Venesia
- Finnish: Venetsia
- French: Cité des Doges
- French: Sérénissime
- French: Venise
- Friulian: Vignesie
- Galician: Venecia - Venezia
- Galician: Venecia
- Georgian: ვენეცია
- German: Venedig
- German: Venezia
- Greek: Βενετία
- Guarani: Venésia
- Gujarati: વેનિસ
- 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
- Indonesian: Wenesia
- Interlingua: Venetia
- Interlingue: Venezia
- Irish: An Veinéis
- Irish: an Veinéis
- Italian: Serenissima
- Italian: Venezia
- Italian: Vinegia
- Japanese: ベニス
- Japanese: ベネチア
- Japanese: ベネツィア
- Japanese: ヴェニス
- Japanese: ヴェネチア
- Japanese: ヴェネツィア
- Japanese: ヴェネーツィア
- Javanese: Venesia
- Kabiyè: Feeniizi
- Kabyle: Vinisya
- Kannada: ವೆನಿಸ್
- Kannada: ವೆನಿಸ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Vinetsiya
- Kashubian: Wenecjô
- Kazakh: Венеция
- Kinaray-A: Benesya
- Kinaray-A: Binisya
- Kirghiz: Венеция
- Komi: Венеция
- Korean: 베네치아
- Korean: 베니스
- 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: Venies
- Lingua Franca Nova: Venezia
- Literary Chinese: 威尼斯
- Lithuanian: Venecija
- Lombard: Venèzia
- Low German: Venies
- Luxembourgish: Venedeg
- Macedonian: Венеција
- Maithili: भेनिस
- Malay: Venesia
- Malay: Venezia
- Malay: Venice
- Malayalam: വെനീസ്
- Maltese: Venezja
- Manx: Yn Veneesh
- 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: Venezia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Serenissima
- Norwegian Bokmål: Venedig
- Norwegian Bokmål: Venezia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Venezia
- 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
- Quechua: Venezia
- Romanian: Veneţia
- Romanian: Veneția
- Romansh: Vnescha
- Russian: Venetia
- Russian: Венеция
- 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
- 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: Venexia
- Venetian: Venezia
- Venetian: Venezsia
- Venetian: Venèsia
- Veps: Venecii
- Vietnamese: Venezia
- 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
- Venezie
- Venêzia
- ma tomo Wenesija
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