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 VeniceRising as if by magic from the waters, city of dreams, bright and splendid: that is Venice. It reveals different and particular languages in every season, highlighting its innumerable qualities in which historic memories, natural and artistic beauties, traditional courtesy and hospitality concur to make it so unique. World Heritage Site, as acknowledged by Unesco, Venice shows a complex urban formation whose primitive nucleus was the area of Rialto. A land use plan set the rules to excavate a canal network, whose ground was used to erect and strengthen the insular plan. This is how came up Canal Grande and the numerous "rii" of the city, that nowadays link with other four-hundred bridges and as many as 118 small islands. The connections were fortified by a dense pilework of huge trees' trunks on which rest the foundations of every single house or building. Unique gateway towards the East for a very long time, Venice overworked this strategic position in order to achieve a huge power and richness in terms of commerce and culture.The amazing treasures preserved in Piazza St Marco are sufficient to witness the high influence of Venice as worldwide power from the XII to the XIV century. Its ancient buildings now are museums, shops, hotels and apartments, and the old convents used as works of art's restoration centres. Nonetheless the unequalled conformation has allowed Venice to not change too much: certain areas have just remained immaculate, silent and you can only hear the water lapping along with the romantic Gondole and some steamboats. Over 12 millions visitors every year give in to the charm of this enchanted place, where the streets are full of water and everything remembers of the ancient splendour and lavishness.
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Other towns in the area: Asiago, Bassano del Grappa, Padua, Piombino Dese, Possagno, Treviso, Verona |
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