Venice
Venice
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Comune di Venezia | ||
ISTAT code 027042 | | |
Patron saint | St. Mark the Evangelist | |
Saint day | 25 April | |
Website | Official website |
UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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Criteria | Cultural: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi |
Reference | 394 |
Inscription | 1987 (11th Session) |
Venice (
The name is derived from the ancient
Venice has been known as "La Dominante", "La Serenissima", "Queen of the
In the 21st century, Venice remains a very popular tourist destination, a major cultural centre, and has often been ranked one of the most beautiful cities in the world.[15][16] It has been described by The Times as one of Europe's most romantic cities[17] and by The New York Times as "undoubtedly the most beautiful city built by man".[18] However, the city faces challenges including an excessive number of tourists, pollution, tide peaks and cruise ships sailing too close to buildings.[19][20][21] In light of the fact that Venice and its lagoon are under constant threat in terms of their ecology and cultural heritage, Venice's UNESCO listing has been under constant examination.[22]
History
Origins
421–476 | Western Roman Empire |
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476–493 | Kingdom of Odoacer |
493–553 | Ostrogothic Kingdom |
553–584 |
Eastern Roman Empire |
584–697 | Byzantine Empire (Exarchate of Ravenna) |
697–1797 | Republic of Venice |
1797–1805 | Habsburg monarchy |
1805–1814 | Kingdom of Italy |
1815–1848 | Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia |
1848–1849 | Republic of San Marco |
1849–1866 | Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia |
1866–1943 | Kingdom of Italy |
1943–1945 | Italian Social Republic |
1946–present | Italy |
Although no surviving historical records deal directly with the founding or building of Venice,[23] tradition and the available evidence have led several historians to agree that the original population of Venice consisted of refugees – from nearby Roman cities such as Patavium (Padua), Aquileia, Tarvisium (Treviso), Altinum, and Concordia (modern Portogruaro), as well as from the undefended countryside – who were fleeing successive waves of Germanic and Hun invasions.[24] This is further supported by the documentation on the so-called "apostolic families", the twelve founding families of Venice who elected the first doge, who in most cases trace their lineage back to Roman families.[25][26] Some late Roman sources reveal the existence of fishermen, on the islands in the original marshy lagoons, who were referred to as incolae lacunae ("lagoon dwellers"). The traditional founding is identified with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo on the islet of Rialto (Rivoalto, "High Shore")—said to have taken place at the stroke of noon on 25 March 421 (the Feast of the Annunciation).[27][28][29]
Beginning as early as AD 166–168, the
The traditional first
In 751, the
In 828 the new city's prestige increased with the acquisition, from
Expansion
From the 9th to the 12th centuries, Venice developed into a powerful maritime empire (an Italian thalassocracy known also as repubblica marinara). In addition to Venice there were seven others: the most important ones were Genoa, Pisa, and Amalfi; and the lesser known were Ragusa, Ancona, Gaeta and Noli. Its own strategic position at the head of the Adriatic made Venetian naval and commercial power almost invulnerable.[34] With the elimination of pirates along the Dalmatian coast, the city became a flourishing trade centre between Western Europe and the rest of the world, especially with the Byzantine Empire and Asia, where its navy protected sea routes against piracy.[35]
The
Venice remained closely associated with Constantinople, being twice granted trading privileges in the Eastern Roman Empire, through the so-called golden bulls or "chrysobulls", in return for aiding the Eastern Empire to resist Norman and Turkish incursions. In the first chrysobull, Venice acknowledged its homage to the empire; but not in the second, reflecting the decline of Byzantium and the rise of Venice's power.[37]
Venice became an imperial power following the Fourth Crusade, which, having veered off course, culminated in 1204 by capturing and sacking Constantinople and establishing the Latin Empire. As a result of this conquest, considerable Byzantine plunder was brought back to Venice. This plunder included the gilt bronze horses from the Hippodrome of Constantinople, which were originally placed above the entrance to the cathedral of Venice, St Mark's Basilica (The originals have been replaced with replicas, and are now stored within the basilica.) After the fall of Constantinople, the former Eastern Roman Empire was partitioned among the Latin crusaders and the Venetians. Venice subsequently carved out a sphere of influence in the Mediterranean known as the Duchy of the Archipelago, and captured Crete.[38]
The seizure of Constantinople proved as decisive a factor in ending the Byzantine Empire as the loss of the
Situated on the
The Venetian governmental structure was similar in some ways to the republican system of ancient Rome, with an elected chief executive (the doge), a senator-like assembly of nobles, and the general citizenry with limited political power, who originally had the power to grant or withhold their approval of each newly elected doge. Church and various private property was tied to military service, although there was no knight tenure within the city itself. The Cavalieri di San Marco was the only order of chivalry ever instituted in Venice, and no citizen could accept or join a foreign order without the government's consent. Venice remained a republic throughout its independent period, and politics and the military were kept separate, except when on occasion the Doge personally headed the military. War was regarded as a continuation of commerce by other means. Therefore, the city's early employment of large numbers of mercenaries for service elsewhere, and later its reliance on foreign mercenaries when the ruling class was preoccupied with commerce.
Although the people of Venice generally remained orthodox Roman Catholics, the state of Venice was notable for its freedom from religious fanaticism, and executed nobody for religious heresy during the
The newly invented German printing press spread rapidly throughout Europe in the 15th century, and Venice was quick to adopt it. By 1482, Venice was the printing capital of the world; the leading printer was Aldus Manutius, who invented paperback books that could be carried in a saddlebag.[40] His Aldine Editions included translations of nearly all the known Greek manuscripts of the era.[41]
Decline
Venice's long decline started in the 15th century. Venice confronted the
The
Venice began to lose the position as a centre of international trade during the later part of the Renaissance as Portugal became Europe's principal intermediary in the trade with the East, striking at the very foundation of Venice's great wealth. France and Spain fought for hegemony over Italy in the Italian Wars, marginalising its political influence. However, Venice remained a major exporter of agricultural products and until the mid-18th century, a significant manufacturing centre.[42]
Modern age
The Republic of Venice lost its independence when
Venice became Austrian territory when Napoleon signed the
From the middle of the 18th century, Trieste and papal Ancona, both of which became free ports, competed with Venice more and more economically. Habsburg Trieste in particular boomed and increasingly served trade via the Suez Canal, which opened in 1869, between Asia and Central Europe, while Venice very quickly lost its competitive edge and commercial strength.[46]
During
Venice was listed as a
Geography
Venice is located in northeastern Italy, in the Veneto region. The city is situated on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by 438 bridges. The historic center of Venice is divided into six districts, or sestieri, which are named Cannaregio, Castello, Dorsoduro, San Marco, San Polo, and Santa Croce.
Venice sits atop alluvial silt washed into the sea by the rivers flowing eastward from the Alps across the Veneto plain, with the silt being stretched into long banks, or lidi, by the action of the current flowing around the head of the Adriatic Sea from east to west.[51]
Subsidence
Subsidence, the gradual lowering of the surface of Venice, has contributed – along with other factors – to the seasonal Acqua alta ("high water") when the city's lowest lying surfaces may be covered at high tide.
Building foundations
Those fleeing barbarian invasions who found refuge on the sandy islands of Torcello, Iesolo, and Malamocco, in this coastal lagoon, learned to build by driving closely spaced piles consisting of the trunks of alder trees, a wood noted for its water resistance, into the mud and sand,[52][53] until they reached a much harder layer of compressed clay. Building foundations rested on plates of Istrian limestone placed on top of the piles.[54]
Flooding
This section needs to be updated. The reason given is: MOSE information does not cover anything after 2020, such as the 2023 completion date moved to 2025. (February 2024) |
Between autumn and early spring, the city is often threatened by flood tides pushing in from the Adriatic. Six hundred years ago, Venetians protected themselves from land-based attacks by diverting all the major rivers flowing into the lagoon and thus preventing sediment from filling the area around the city.[55] This created an ever-deeper lagoon environment. Additionally, the lowest part of Venice, St Mark's Basilica, is only 64 centimetres (25 in) above sea level, and one of the most flood-prone parts of the city.[56]
In 1604, to defray the cost of flood relief, Venice introduced what could be considered the first example of a stamp tax.[57] When the revenue fell short of expectations in 1608, Venice introduced paper, with the superscription "AQ" and imprinted instructions, which was to be used for "letters to officials". At first, this was to be a temporary tax, but it remained in effect until the fall of the Republic in 1797. Shortly after the introduction of the tax, Spain produced similar paper for general taxation purposes, and the practice spread to other countries.
During the 20th century, when many
Studies indicate that the city continues sinking at a relatively slow rate of 1–2 mm per year;[58][59] therefore, the state of alert has not been revoked.
In May 2003, Italian Prime Minister
According to a spokesman for the National Trust of Italy (Fondo Ambiente Italiano):[64]
Mose is a pharaonic project that should have cost €800m [£675m] but will cost at least €7bn [£6bn]. If the barriers are closed at only 90 cm of high water, most of St Mark's will be flooded anyway; but if closed at very high levels only, then people will wonder at the logic of spending such sums on something that didn't solve the problem. And pressure will come from the cruise ships to keep the gates open.
On 13 November 2019, Venice was flooded when waters peaked at 1.87 m (6 ft), the highest tide since 1966 (1.94 m).[65] More than 80% of the city was covered by water, which damaged cultural heritage sites, including more than 50 churches, leading to tourists cancelling their visits.[66][67] The planned flood barrier would have prevented this incident according to various sources, including Marco Piana, the head of conservation at St Mark's Basilica.[68] The mayor promised that work on the flood barrier would continue,[69][68] and the Prime Minister announced that the government would be accelerating the project.[66]
The city's mayor,
"The sea level has been rising even more rapidly in Venice than in other parts of the world. At the same time, the city is sinking, the result of tectonic plates shifting below the Italian coast. Those factors together, along with the more frequent extreme weather events associated with climate change, contribute to floods."
Henk Ovink, an expert on flooding, told CNN that, while environmental factors are part of the problem, "historic floods in Venice are not only a result of the climate crisis but poor infrastructure and mismanagement".[73]
The government of Italy committed to providing 20 million euros in funding to help the city repair the most urgent aspects although Brugnaro's estimate of the total damage was "hundreds of millions"[74] to at least 1 billion euros.[75]
On 3 October 2020, the MOSE was activated for the first time in response to a predicted high tide event, preventing some of the low-lying parts of the city (in particular the Piazza San Marco) from being flooded.[76]
Climate
According to the Köppen climate classification, Venice has a mid-latitude, four season humid subtropical climate (Cfa), with cool, damp winters and warm, humid summers. The 24-hour average temperature in January is 3.3 °C (37.9 °F), and for July this figure is 23.0 °C (73.4 °F). Precipitation is spread relatively evenly throughout the year, and averages 748 millimetres (29.4 in); snow isn't a rarity between late November and early March. During the most severe winters, the canals and parts of the lagoon can freeze, but with the warming trend of the past 30–40 years, the occurrence has become rarer.[77]
Climate data for Venice, elevation: 2 m or 6 ft 7 in, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1961–present) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 15.7 (60.3) |
22.0 (71.6) |
25.3 (77.5) |
27.2 (81.0) |
31.5 (88.7) |
35.2 (95.4) |
36.6 (97.9) |
36.5 (97.7) |
32.4 (90.3) |
27.3 (81.1) |
23.0 (73.4) |
16.7 (62.1) |
36.6 (97.9) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 7.5 (45.5) |
9.2 (48.6) |
13.2 (55.8) |
17.4 (63.3) |
22.0 (71.6) |
26.0 (78.8) |
28.5 (83.3) |
28.4 (83.1) |
23.8 (74.8) |
18.5 (65.3) |
12.9 (55.2) |
8.3 (46.9) |
18.0 (64.4) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 3.8 (38.8) |
5.0 (41.0) |
8.9 (48.0) |
13.0 (55.4) |
17.7 (63.9) |
21.7 (71.1) |
23.8 (74.8) |
23.7 (74.7) |
19.3 (66.7) |
14.5 (58.1) |
9.3 (48.7) |
4.7 (40.5) |
13.8 (56.8) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 0.1 (32.2) |
0.8 (33.4) |
4.5 (40.1) |
8.7 (47.7) |
13.5 (56.3) |
17.4 (63.3) |
19.2 (66.6) |
18.9 (66.0) |
14.8 (58.6) |
10.5 (50.9) |
5.7 (42.3) |
1.0 (33.8) |
9.6 (49.3) |
Record low °C (°F) | −13.5 (7.7) |
−12.6 (9.3) |
−7.4 (18.7) |
−0.8 (30.6) |
2.0 (35.6) |
7.0 (44.6) |
10.2 (50.4) |
10.0 (50.0) |
5.0 (41.0) |
−1.1 (30.0) |
−8.8 (16.2) |
−12.5 (9.5) |
−13.5 (7.7) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 40.2 (1.58) |
56.5 (2.22) |
60.5 (2.38) |
70.5 (2.78) |
80.2 (3.16) |
64.2 (2.53) |
57.9 (2.28) |
65.8 (2.59) |
73.3 (2.89) |
72.0 (2.83) |
71.5 (2.81) |
49.8 (1.96) |
762.4 (30.01) |
Average precipitation days | 6.0 | 5.2 | 5.7 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 5.9 | 6.1 | 5.9 | 6.7 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 78.3 |
Average relative humidity (%)
|
81 | 77 | 75 | 75 | 73 | 74 | 71 | 72 | 75 | 77 | 79 | 81 | 76 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 80.6 | 107.4 | 142.6 | 174.0 | 229.4 | 243.0 | 288.3 | 257.3 | 198.0 | 151.9 | 87.0 | 77.5 | 2,037 |
Mean daily sunshine hours | 2.6 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 5.8 | 7.4 | 8.1 | 9.3 | 8.3 | 6.6 | 4.9 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 5.6 |
Mean daily daylight hours | 9.2 | 10.4 | 12.0 | 13.6 | 14.9 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.8 | 12.2 |
Percent possible sunshine | 29 | 38 | 38 | 41 | 49 | 51 | 62 | 59 | 51 | 45 | 29 | 28 | 43 |
Average ultraviolet index | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Source 1: Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale NOAA[79]
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Source 2: MeteoAM (sun and humidity 1961–1990),[80][81] Weather Atlas (daylight, UV)[82] Temperature estreme in Toscana (extremes)[83] |
Climate data for Venice (sea temperatures) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 10.0 (50.0) |
8.8 (47.8) |
9.9 (49.8) |
13.4 (56.1) |
18.6 (65.5) |
23.4 (74.1) |
25.4 (77.7) |
25.4 (77.7) |
23.6 (74.5) |
19.3 (66.7) |
16.0 (60.8) |
13.3 (55.9) |
17.3 (63.0) |
Source: Weather Atlas[82] |
Demographics
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1871 | 164,965 | — |
1881 | 165,802 | +0.5% |
1901 | 189,368 | +14.2% |
1911 | 208,463 | +10.1% |
1921 | 223,373 | +7.2% |
1931 | 250,327 | +12.1% |
1936 | 264,027 | +5.5% |
1951 | 310,034 | +17.4% |
1961 | 339,671 | +9.6% |
1971 | 354,475 | +4.4% |
1981 | 336,081 | −5.2% |
1991 | 298,532 | −11.2% |
2001 | 271,073 | −9.2% |
2011 | 261,362 | −3.6% |
2021 | 251,944 | −3.6% |
Source: ISTAT |
The city was one of the largest in Europe in the High Middle Ages, with a population of 60,000 in AD 1000; 80,000 in 1200; and rising up to 110,000–180,000 in 1300. In the mid-1500s the city's population was 170,000, and by 1600 it approached 200,000.[84][85][86][87][88]
In 2021, there were 254,850 people residing in the Comune of Venice (the population figure includes 50,434 in the historic city of Venice (Centro storico), 177,621 in Terraferma (the mainland); and 26,795 on other islands in the lagoon).[89] 47.8% of the population in 2021 were male and 52.2% were female; minors (ages 18 and younger) were 14.7% of the population compared to elderly people (ages 65 and older) who numbered 27.9%. This compared with the Italian average of 16.7% and 23.5%, respectively. The average age of Venice residents was 48.6 compared to the Italian average of 45.9. In the five years between 2016 and 2021, the population of Venice declined by 2.7%, while Italy as a whole declined by 2.2%.[90] The population in the historic old city declined much faster: from about 120,000 in 1980 to about 60,000 in 2009,[91] and to 50,000 in 2021.[89] As of 2021[update], 84.2% of the population was Italian. The largest immigrant groups include: 7,814 (3.1%) Bangladeshis, 6,258 (2.5%) Romanians, 4,054 (1.6%) Moldovans, 4,014 (1.6%) Chinese, and 2,514 (1%) Ukrainians.[92]
Venice is predominantly
Since 1991, the Church of
There is also a historic Jewish community in Venice. The Venetian Ghetto was the area in which Jews were compelled to live under the Venetian Republic. The word ghetto (ghèto), originally Venetian, is now found in many languages. Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, written in the late 16th century, features Shylock, a Venetian Jew. The first complete and uncensored printed edition of the Talmud was printed in Venice by Daniel Bomberg in 1523. During World War II, Jews were rounded up in Venice and deported to extermination camps. Since the end of the war, the Jewish population of Venice has declined from 1500 to about 500.[96] Only around 30 Jews live in the former ghetto, which houses the city's major Jewish institutions.[97] In modern times, Venice has an eruv,[98] used by the Jewish community.
Government
Local and regional government
The legislative body of the Comune is the City Council (Consiglio Comunale), which is composed of 36 councillors elected every five years with a proportional system, contextually to the mayoral elections. The executive body is the City Administration (Giunta Comunale), composed of 12 assessors nominated and presided over by a directly elected Mayor.
Venice was governed by centre-left parties from the early 1990s until the 2010s, when the Mayor started to be elected directly. Its region, Veneto, has long been a conservative stronghold, with the coalition between the regionalist Lega Nord and the centre-right Forza Italia winning absolute majorities of the electorate in many elections at local, national, and regional levels.
The current mayor of Venice is Luigi Brugnaro, a centre-right independent businessman who is currently serving his second term in office.
The municipality of Venice is also subdivided into six administrative boroughs (municipalità). Each borough is governed by a council (Consiglio) and a president, elected every five years. The urban organization is dictated by Article 114 of the Italian Constitution. The boroughs have the power to advise the Mayor with nonbinding opinions on a large spectrum of topics (environment, construction, public health, local markets) and exercise the functions delegated to them by the City Council; in addition, they are supplied with autonomous funding to finance local activities.
Borough | Place | Population | President | Party | Term | ||
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1 | Venezia (Historic city)–Murano–Burano | Lagoon area | 69,136 | Marco Borghi | PD | 2020–2025 | |
2 | Lido–Pellestrina
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Lagoon area | 21,664 | Emilio Guberti | Ind
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2020–2025 | |
3 | Favaro Veneto | Mainland (terraferma)[a] | 23,615 | Marco Bellato | Ind
|
2020–2025 | |
4 | Mestre–Carpenedo | Mainland (terraferma) | 88,592 | Raffaele Pasqualetto | LN | 2020–2025 | |
5 | Chirignago–Zelarino | Mainland (terraferma) | 38,179 | Francesco Tagliapietra | Ind
|
2020–2025 | |
6 | Marghera | Mainland (terraferma) | 28,466 | Teodoro Marolo | Ind
|
2020–2025 |
- Notes
- ^ Annexed with a Royal Decree to the municipality of Venice in 1926.
Sestieri
The historic city of Venice has historically been divided into six
Sestiere | Abbr. | Area (ha ) | Pop. (2011-10-09) | Density | No. of islands |
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Cannaregio | CN | 121.36 | 16.950 | 13.967 | 33 |
Castello | CS | 173.97 | 14.813 | 8.514 | 26 |
San Marco |
SM | 54.48 | 4.145 | 7.552 | 16 |
Dorsoduro | DD | 161.32 | 13.398 | 8.305 | 31 |
San Polo | SP | 46.70 | 9.183 | 19.665 | 7 |
Santa Croce | SC | 88.57 | 2.257 | 2.548 | 14 |
Historic centre | — | 646.80[citation needed] | 60.746 | 9.392 | 127 |
Each sestiere is now a statistical and historical area without any degree of autonomy.[100]
The six fingers or phalanges of the ferro on the bow of a gondola represent the six sestieri.[100]
The sestieri are divided into parishes—initially 70 in 1033, but reduced under Napoleon, and now numbering just 38. These parishes predate the sestieri, which were created in about 1170. Each parish exhibited unique characteristics but also belonged to an integrated network. Each community chose its own patron saint, staged its own festivals, congregated around its own market centre, constructed its own bell towers, and developed its own customs.[101]
Other islands of the Venetian Lagoon do not form part of any of the sestieri, having historically enjoyed a considerable degree of autonomy.[102]
Each sestiere has its own house numbering system. Each house has a unique number in the district, from one to several thousand, generally numbered from one corner of the area to another, but not usually in a readily understandable manner.[102]
Economy
Venice's economy has changed throughout history. Although there is little specific information about the earliest years, it is likely that an important source of the city's prosperity was the trade in slaves, captured in central Europe and sold to North Africa and the Levant. Venice's location at the head of the Adriatic, and directly south of the terminus of the Brenner Pass over the Alps, would have given it a distinct advantage as a middleman in this important trade. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Venice was a major centre for commerce and trade, as it controlled a vast sea-empire, and became an extremely wealthy European city and a leader in political and economic affairs.[103] From the 11th century until the 15th century, pilgrimages to the Holy Land were offered in Venice. Other ports such as Genoa, Pisa, Marseille, Ancona, and Dubrovnik were hardly able to compete with the well organized transportation of pilgrims from Venice.[104][105]
Today, Venice's economy is mainly based on tourism, shipbuilding (mainly in Mestre and Porto Marghera), services, trade, and industrial exports.
The city is facing financial challenges. In late 2016, it had a major deficit in its budget and debts in excess of €400 million. "In effect, the place is bankrupt", according to a report by
In June 2017, Italy was required to bail out two Venetian banks – the Banca Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca – to prevent their bankruptcies.[110] Both banks would be wound down and their assets that have value taken over by another Italian bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, which would receive €5.2 billion as compensation. The Italian government would be responsible for losses from any uncollectible loans from the closed banks. The cost would be €5.2 billion, with further guarantees to cover bad loans totaling €12 billion.[111]
Tourism
Venice is an important destination for tourists who want to see its celebrated art and architecture.
Tourism has been a major part of the Venetian economy since the 18th century, when Venice – with its beautiful cityscape, uniqueness, and rich musical and artistic cultural heritage – was a stop on the Grand Tour. In the 19th century, Venice became a fashionable centre for the "rich and famous", who often stayed and dined at luxury establishments such as the Danieli Hotel and the Caffè Florian, and continued to be a fashionable city into the early 20th century.[108] In the 1980s, the Carnival of Venice was revived; and the city has become a major centre of international conferences and festivals, such as the prestigious Venice Biennale and the Venice Film Festival, which attract visitors from all over the world for their theatrical, cultural, cinematic, artistic, and musical productions.[108]
Today, there are numerous attractions in Venice, such as
Venice is regarded by some as a tourist trap, and by others as a "living museum".[108]
Diverting cruise ships
The need to protect the city's historic environment and fragile canals, in the face of a possible loss of jobs produced by cruise tourism, has seen the Italian Transport Ministry attempt to introduce a ban on large cruise ships visiting the city. A 2013 ban would have allowed only cruise ships smaller than 40,000-gross tons to enter the Giudecca Canal and St Mark's basin.[118] In January 2015, a regional court scrapped the ban, but some global cruise lines indicated that they would continue to respect it until a long-term solution for the protection of Venice is found.[119]
P&O Cruises removed Venice from its summer schedule; Holland America moved one of its ships from this area to Alaska; and Cunard reduced (in 2017 and further in 2018) the number of visits by its ships. As a result, the Venice Port Authority estimated an 11.4 per cent drop in cruise ships arriving in 2017 versus 2016, leading to a similar reduction in income for Venice.[120]
Having failed in its 2013 bid to ban oversized cruise ships from the Giudecca Canal, the Italian inter-ministerial Comitatone overseeing Venice's lagoon released an official directive in November 2017 to keep the largest cruise ships away from the Piazza San Marco and the entrance to the Grand Canal.[121][122][123] Ships over 55,000 tons will be required to follow a specific route through the Vittorio Emmanuele III Canal to reach Marghera, an industrial area of the mainland, where a passenger terminal would be built.[124]
In 2014, the United Nations warned the city that it may be placed on UNESCO's List of World Heritage in Danger sites unless cruise ships are banned from the canals near the historic centre.[125]
According to the officials, the plan to create an alternative route for ships would require extensive dredging of the canal and the building of a new port, which would take four years, in total, to complete. However, the activist group No Grandi Navi (No big Ships), argued that the effects of pollution caused by the ships would not be diminished by the re-routing plan.[126][127]
Some locals continued to aggressively lobby for new methods that would reduce the number of cruise ship passengers; their estimate indicated that there are up to 30,000 such sightseers per day at peak periods,[114] while others concentrate their effort on promoting a more responsible way of visiting the city.[128] An unofficial referendum to ban large cruise ships was held in June 2017. More than 18,000 people voted at 60 polling booths set up by activists, and 17,874 favored banning large ships from the lagoon. The population of Venice at the time was about 50,000.[129] The organizers of the referendum backed a plan to build a new cruise ship terminal at one of the three entrances to the Venetian Lagoon. Passengers would be transferred to the historic area in smaller boats.[130][131]
On 2 June 2019, the cruise ship MSC Opera rammed a tourist riverboat, the River Countess, which was docked on the Giudecca Canal, injuring five people, in addition to causing property damage. The incident immediately led to renewed demands to ban large cruise ships from the Giudecca Canal,[132] including a Twitter message to that effect posted by the environment minister. The city's mayor urged authorities to accelerate the steps required for cruise ships to begin using the alternate Vittorio Emanuele canal.[133] Italy's transport minister spoke of a "solution to protect both the lagoon and tourism ... after many years of inertia" but specifics were not reported.[134][135] As of June 2019[update], the 2017 plan to establish an alternative route for large ships, preventing them from coming near the historic area of the city, has not yet been approved.[127]
Nonetheless, the Italian government released an announcement on 7 August 2019 that it would begin rerouting cruise ships larger than 1000 tonnes away from the historic city's Giudecca Canal. For the last four months of 2019, all heavy vessels will dock at the Fusina and Lombardia terminals which are still on the lagoon but away from the central islands. By 2020, one-third of all cruise ships will be rerouted, according to Danilo Toninelli, the minister for Venice. Preparation work for the Vittorio Emanuele Canal needed to begin soon for a long-term solution, according to the Cruise Lines International Association.[136][137] In the long-term, space for ships would be provided at new terminals, perhaps at Chioggia or Lido San Nicolo. That plan was not imminent however, since public consultations had not yet begun. Over 1.5 million people per year arrive in Venice on cruise ships.[138] The Italian government decided to divert large cruise ships beginning August 2021.[139]
Other tourism mitigation efforts
Having failed in its 2013 bid to ban oversized cruise ships from the Giudecca Canal, the city switched to a new strategy in mid-2017, banning the creation of any additional hotels. Currently, there are over 24,000 hotel rooms. The ban does not affect short-term rentals in the historic centre which are causing an increase in the cost of living for the native residents of Venice.[20] The city had already banned any additional fast food "take-away" outlets, to retain the historic character of the city, which was another reason for freezing the number of hotel rooms.[140] Fewer than half of the millions of annual visitors stay overnight, however.[112][113]
The city also considered a ban on wheeled suitcases, but settled for banning hard plastic wheels for transporting cargo from May 2015.[141]
In addition to accelerating erosion of the ancient city's foundations and creating some pollution in the lagoon,[19][142] cruise ships dropping an excessive number of day trippers can make St. Marks Square and other popular attractions too crowded to walk through during the peak season. Government officials see little value to the economy from the "eat and flee" tourists who stay for less than a day, which is typical of those from cruise ships.[129]
On 28 February 2019, the Venice City Council voted in favour of a new municipal regulation requiring day-trippers visiting the historic centre, and the islands in the lagoon, to pay a new access fee. The extra revenue from the fee would be used for cleaning, maintaining security, reducing the financial burden on residents of Venice, and to "allow Venetians to live with more decorum". The new tax would be between €3 and €10 per person, depending on the expected tourist flow into the old city. The fee could be waived for certain types of travelers: including students, children under the age of 6, voluntary workers, residents of the Veneto region, and participants in sporting events.[143] Overnight visitors, who already pay a "stay" tax and account for around 40% of Venice's yearly total of 28 million visitors,[144] would also be exempted. The access fee was expected to come into effect in September 2019; but it was postponed, firstly, until 1 January 2020, and then, again, due to the coronavirus pandemic.[145] The new charge of €5 started to be imposed on those tourists who are not staying overnight and came into force on 25 April 2024.[146] It is only charged on peak visitor days, and several classes of people are exempt, including Veneto residents, hotel guests (including mainland boroughs of Venice), local workers, and students.[147] Cell phone data showed more tourists came on fee-charged days in 2024, generating more money than expected, and leaving the city to decide whether to raise the fee for the next tourist season or try other approaches.[148]
A regulation taking effect on June 1, 2024, limits tour groups to 25 people and bans loudspeakers.[149][150]
Transport
In the historic centre
Venice is built on an
The classic Venetian boat is the gondola, (plural: gondole) although it is now mostly used for tourists, or for weddings, funerals, or other ceremonies, or as traghetti[clarification needed] (sing.: traghetto) to cross the Grand Canal in lieu of a nearby bridge. The traghetti are operated by two oarsmen.[153]
There are approximately 400 licensed gondoliers in Venice, in their distinctive
Waterways
Venice's small islands were enhanced during the Middle Ages by the dredging of soil to raise the marshy ground above the tides. The resulting canals encouraged the flourishing of a nautical culture which proved central to the economy of the city. Today those canals still provide the means for transport of goods and people within the city.
The maze of canals threading through the city requires more than 400 bridges to permit the flow of foot traffic. In 2011, the city opened the
Public transport
Lagoon area
The main means of public transportation consists of motorised
The
Lido and Pellestrina islands
Mainland
The mainland of Venice is composed of 4 boroughs: Mestre-Carpenedo, Marghera, Chirignago-Zelarino, and Favaro Veneto. Mestre is the centre and the most populous urban area of the mainland. There are several bus routes and two Translohr tramway lines. Several bus routes and one of the tramway lines link the mainland with Piazzale Roma, the main bus station in Venice, via Ponte della Libertà, the road bridge connecting the mainland with the group of islands that comprise the historic centre of Venice.
The average amount of time people spend commuting with public transit in Venice, for example to and from work, on a weekday is 52 min. Only 12.2% of public transit riders ride for more than 2 hours every day. The average amount of time people wait at a stop or station for public transit is 10 min, while 17.6% of riders wait for over 20 minutes on average every day. The average distance people usually ride in a single trip with public transit is 7 kilometres (4.3 mi), while 12% travel for over 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) in a single direction.[158]
Rail
Venice is served by regional and national trains, including trains to Florence (1h53), Milan (2h13), Turin (3h10), Rome (3h33), and Naples (4h50). In addition there are international day trains to Zurich, Innsbruck, Munich, and Vienna, plus overnight sleeper services, to Paris and Dijon on
- The Venice Simplon Orient Expressfrom London via Paris and other cities.
- The Venezia Mestre railway station is on the mainland, on the border between the boroughs of Mestre and Marghera.
Both stations are managed by Grandi Stazioni; they are linked by the Ponte della Libertà (Liberty Bridge) between the mainland and the city centre.
Other stations in the municipality are Venezia Porto Marghera, Venezia Carpenedo, Venezia Mestre Ospedale, and Venezia Mestre Porta Ovest.
Ports
The
Aviation
The
- Venice Piazzale Roma by ATVO (provincial company) buses[160] and by ACTV (city company) buses (route 5 aerobus);[161]
- Venice, Lido, and Murano by Allilaguna (private company) motor boats;
- Mestre, the mainland, where Venice Mestre railway station is convenient for connections to Milan, Padua, Trieste, Verona and the rest of Italy, and for ACTV (routes 15 and 45)[161] and ATVO buses and other transport;
- Regional destinations, such as Busitalia Sita Nord buses.[162]
Venice-Treviso Airport, about 30 kilometres (19 mi) from Venice, is used mainly by low-cost airlines. There are public buses from this airport to Venice.[163]
Venezia-Lido "Giovanni Nicelli",
Sport
The most famous Venetian sport is probably Voga alla Veneta ("Venetian-style rowing"), also commonly called voga veneta. A technique invented in the Venetian Lagoon, Venetian rowing is unusual in that the rower(s), one or more, row standing, looking forward. Today, Voga alla Veneta is not only the way the gondoliers row tourists around Venice but also the way Venetians row for pleasure and sport. Many races called regata(e) happen throughout the year.[165] The culminating event of the rowing season is the day of the "Regata Storica", which occurs on the first Sunday of September each year.[166]
The main football club in the city is
The local basketball club is Reyer Venezia, founded in 1872 as the gymnastics club Società Sportiva Costantino Reyer, and in 1907 as the basketball club. Reyer currently plays in the Lega Basket Serie A. The men's team were the Italian champions in 1942, 1943, and 2017. Their arena is the Palasport Giuseppe Taliercio, situated in Mestre. Luigi Brugnaro is both the president of the club and the mayor of the city.
Education
Venice is a major international centre for higher education. The city hosts the
Other Venetian institutions of higher education are: the Accademia di Belle Arti (Academy of Fine Arts), established in 1750, whose first chairman was Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, and the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Music, which was first established in 1876 as a high school and musical society, later (1915) became Liceo Musicale, and then, when its director was Gian Francesco Malipiero, the State Conservatory of Music (1940).[168]
Culture
Literature
Venice has long been a source of inspiration for authors, playwrights, and poets, and at the forefront of the technological development of printing and publishing.
Two of the most noted Venetian writers were
Venetian playwrights followed the old Italian theatre tradition of commedia dell'arte. Ruzante (1502–1542), Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793), and Carlo Gozzi (1720–1806) used the Venetian dialect extensively in their comedies.
Venice has also inspired writers from abroad. Shakespeare set Othello and The Merchant of Venice in the city, as did Thomas Mann his novel, Death in Venice (1912). The French writer Philippe Sollers spent most of his life in Venice and published A Dictionary For Lovers of Venice in 2004.
The city features prominently in Henry James's The Aspern Papers and The Wings of the Dove. It is also visited in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Perhaps the best-known children's book set in Venice is The Thief Lord, written by the German author Cornelia Funke.
Venice is described in
The poet Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827), born in Zante, an island that at the time belonged to the Republic of Venice, was also a revolutionary who wanted to see a free republic established in Venice following its fall to Napoleon.
Venice also inspired the poetry of Ezra Pound, who wrote his first literary work in the city. Pound died in 1972, and his remains are buried in Venice's cemetery island of San Michele.
Venice is also linked to the technological aspects of writing. The city was the location of one of Italy's earliest printing presses called Aldine Press, established by Aldus Manutius in 1494.[169] From this beginning Venice developed as an important typographic centre. Around fifteen percent of all printing of the fifteenth century came from Venice,[170] and even as late as the 18th century was responsible for printing half of Italy's published books.[citation needed]
In literature and adapted works
The city is a particularly popular setting for essays, novels, and other works of fictional or non-fictional literature. Examples of these include:
- Aretino's works (1492–1556)
- Merchant of Venice (c. 1596–1598) and Othello(1603).
- Ben Jonson's Volpone (1605–6).
- Casanova's autobiographical History of My Lifec. 1789–1797.
- Voltaire's Candide (1759).
- Clarkson Stanfield for The Amulet, 1833, the other for Santa Salute, drawn by Charles Bentleyfor the Literary Souvenir, 1835.
- Ernest Hemingway's Across the River and into the Trees (1950).
- Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1972).
- Anne Rice's Cry to Heaven (1982).
- Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti crime fiction series and cookbook, and the German television series based on the novels (1992–2019).
- Philippe Sollers' Watteau in Venice (1994).
- Michael Dibdin's Dead Lagoon (1994), one in a series of novels featuring Venice-born policeman Aurelio Zen.
- Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Chosen (2002), an historical fantasy or alternate history of Venice – complete with masquerades, canals, and a doge – taking place in a city known as La Serenissima.
- John Berendt's The City of Falling Angels (2005)
- Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Gondoliers (1889)
- Thomas Mann's novella, Death in Venice (1912), was the basis for Benjamin Britten's eponymous opera (1973).
Foreign words of Venetian origin
Some English words with a Venetian etymology include arsenal, ciao, ghetto, gondola, imbroglio, lagoon, lazaret, lido, Montenegro, and regatta.[171]
Printing
By the end of the 15th century, Venice had become the European capital of printing, having 417 printers by 1500, and being one of the first cities in Italy (after Subiaco and Rome) to have a printing press, after those established in Germany. The most important printing office was the Aldine Press of Aldus Manutius; which in 1497 issued the first printed work of Aristotle; in 1499 printed the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, considered the most beautiful book of the Renaissance; and established modern punctuation, page format, and italic type.
Painting
Venice, especially during the
In the 16th century, Venetian painting was developed through influences from the Paduan School and Antonello da Messina, who introduced the oil painting technique of the Van Eyck brothers. It is signified by a warm colour scale and a picturesque use of colour. Early masters were the Bellini and Vivarini families, followed by Giorgione and Titian, then Tintoretto and Veronese. In the early 16th century, there was rivalry in Venetian painting between the disegno and colorito techniques.[173]
Venetian architecture
Venice is built on unstable mud-banks, and had a very crowded city centre by the Middle Ages. On the other hand, the city was largely safe from riot, civil feuds, and invasion much earlier than most European cities. These factors, with the canals and the great wealth of the city, made for unique building styles.
Venice has a rich and diverse
Venetian taste was conservative and Renaissance architecture only really became popular in buildings from about the 1470s. More than in the rest of Italy, it kept much of the typical form of the Gothic palazzi, which had evolved to suit Venetian conditions. In turn the transition to Baroque architecture was also fairly gentle. This gives the crowded buildings on the Grand Canal and elsewhere an essential harmony, even where buildings from very different periods sit together. For example, round-topped arches are far more common in Renaissance buildings than elsewhere.
Rococo style
It can be argued that Venice produced the best and most refined
Glass
Venice is known for its ornate glass-work, known as
Byzantine craftsmen played an important role in the development of Venetian glass. When Constantinople was sacked in the Fourth Crusade in 1204, some fleeing artisans came to Venice; when the Ottomans took Constantinople in 1453, still more glassworkers arrived. By the 16th century, Venetian artisans had gained even greater control over the colour and transparency of their glass, and had mastered a variety of decorative techniques. Despite efforts to keep Venetian glassmaking techniques within Venice, they became known elsewhere, and Venetian-style glassware was produced in other Italian cities and other countries of Europe.
Some of the most important brands of glass in the world today are still produced in the historical glass factories on Murano. They are: Venini, Barovier & Toso,
In February 2021, the world learned that Venetian glass
Festivals
The
The Venice Biennale is one of the most important events in the arts calendar. In 1895 an Esposizione biennale artistica nazionale (biennial exhibition of Italian art) was inaugurated.[180] In September 1942, the activities of the Biennale were interrupted by the war, but resumed in 1948.[181]
The Festa del Redentore is held in mid-July. It began as a feast to give thanks for the end of the plague of 1576. A bridge of barges is built connecting Giudecca to the rest of Venice, and fireworks play an important role.
The
Music
The city of Venice in Italy has played an important role in the development of the music of Italy. The Venetian state (the medieval Republic of Venice) was often popularly called the "Republic of Music", and an anonymous Frenchman of the 17th century is said to have remarked that "In every home, someone is playing a musical instrument or singing. There is music everywhere."[183]
During the 16th century, Venice became one of the most important musical centres of Europe, marked by a characteristic style of composition (the Venetian school) and the development of the Venetian polychoral style under composers such as Adrian Willaert, who worked at St Mark's Basilica. Venice was the early centre of music printing; Ottaviano Petrucci began publishing music almost as soon as this technology was available, and his publishing enterprise helped to attract composers from all over Europe, especially from France and Flanders. By the end of the century, Venice was known for the splendor of its music, as exemplified in the "colossal style" of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, which used multiple choruses and instrumental groups. Venice was also the home of many noted composers during the baroque period, such as Antonio Vivaldi, Tomaso Albinoni, Ippolito Ciera, Giovanni Picchi, and Girolamo Dalla Casa, to name but a few.
Orchestras
Venice is the home of numerous orchestras such as, the Orchestra della Fenice, Rondò Veneziano, Interpreti Veneziani, and Venice Baroque Orchestra.
Cinema, media, and popular culture
The city has been the setting or chosen location of numerous films, games, works of fine art and literature (including essays, fiction, non-fiction, and poems), music videos, television shows, and other cultural references.[186]
One example of this is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.[187]
Photography
Fulvio Roiter was the pioneer in artistic photography in Venice,[188] followed by a number of photographers whose works are often reproduced on postcards, thus reaching a widest international popular exposure.[citation needed] Luca Zordan, a New York City based photographer was born in Venice.[189]
Cuisine
Venetian cuisine is characterized by seafood, but also includes garden products from the islands of the lagoon, rice from the mainland, game, and polenta. Venice is not known for a particular cuisine of its own: it combines local traditions with influences stemming from age-old contacts with distant countries.[clarification needed] These include sarde in saór (sardines marinated to preserve them for long voyages); bacalà mantecato (a recipe based on Norwegian stockfish and extra-virgin olive oil); bisàto (marinated eel); risi e bisi – rice, peas and (unsmoked) bacon;[190] fegato alla veneziana, Venetian-style veal liver; risòto col néro de sépe (risotto with cuttlefish, blackened by their own ink); cichéti, refined and delicious tidbits (akin to tapas); antipasti (appetizers); and prosecco, an effervescent, mildly sweet wine.
In addition, Venice is known for the golden, oval-shaped cookies called
The dessert tiramisù is generally thought to have been invented in Treviso in the 1970s,[192] and is popular in the Veneto area.
Fashion and shopping
In the 14th century, many young Venetian men began wearing tight-fitting multicoloured hose, the designs on which indicated the Compagnie della Calza ("Trouser Club") to which they belonged. The Venetian Senate passed sumptuary laws, but these merely resulted in changes in fashion in order to circumvent the law. Dull garments were worn over colourful ones, which then were cut to show the hidden colours resulting in the spread of men's "slashed" fashions in the 15th century.[citation needed]
Today, Venice is a major fashion and shopping centre; not as important as
International relations
Twin towns – sister cities
In 2013, Venice announced that it wants to end the sister city relationship with St. Petersburg in opposition to laws Russia had passed against homosexuals and those who support gay rights.[195]
Cooperation agreements
In January 2000, the City of Venice and the Central Association of Cities and Communities of Greece (KEDKE) established, in pursuance to EC Regulation No. 2137/85, the Marco Polo System European Economic Interest Grouping (E.E.I.G.), to promote and realise European projects within transnational cultural and tourist fields, particularly in reference to the preservation and safeguarding of artistic and architectural heritage.[194]
In April 2001, the city signed an agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs's office of cultural promotion and cooperation, to coordinate efforts at promoting Italian culture abroad.[194]
Venice also has cooperation agreements with:[194]
- Lübeck, Germany (1979)
- Nuremberg, Germany (1999)
- Qingdao, China (2001, Science and Technology Partnership)
- Thessaloniki, Greece (2003)
- Miami, United States (2020)
Places named after Venice
The name "Venezuela" is a Spanish diminutive of Venice (Veneziola).[196]
Many additional places around the world are named after Venice, such as:
- Venice, Los Angeles, home of Venice Beach
- Venice, Alberta, in Canada
- Venice, Florida, city in Sarasota County
- Venice, New York
- Venice, Louisiana
- Little Venice, London
People
Others closely associated with the city include:
Music
- Andrea Gabrieli (c. 1510–1586), Italian composer and organist at St Mark's Basilica[197]
- Giovanni Gabrieli (1554/1557–1612), composer and organist at St Mark's Basilica[198]
- Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), composer, string player, choirmaster and Catholic priest[199]
- Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676), a baroque composer[200]
- Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1751), a baroque composer[201][202]
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), composer and violinist of the Baroque Era
- Domenico Montagnana (1686–1750), an Italian master luthier. He made the violin and cello.
- Pietro Guarneri (1695–1762), luthier, settled in Venice 1717, Peter of Venice[203]
- Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749–1838), opera librettist and poet. He wrote the librettos for 28 operas by 11 composers, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- Domenico Dragonetti (1763–1846), a double bass virtuoso and composer[204]
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876–1948), Italian composer, mostly of comic opera
- Virgilio Ranzato (1883–1937), Italian composer and violinist
- Bruno Maderna (1920–1973), Italian-German orchestra director and music composer
- Luigi Nono(1924–1990), a leading composer of instrumental and electronic music
- Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946–2001), conductor and composer
- Claudio Ambrosini (born 1948), composer and conductor[205]
- Giovanni Gallo (fl. 1726 – c. 1749), Italian choreographer of ballets within operas[206]
Painting
- Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 – 1516), Renaissance painter from the Bellini family of painters[207][208]
- Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1465 – 1525/1526), Italian painter of the Venetian school[209]
- Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556), painter, draughtsman and illustrator, in the Venetian school[210]
- Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1485 – 1547), High Renaissance painter and early Mannerist[211]
- Titian (c. 1488/90 – 1576), leader of the Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance[212]
- Tintoretto (1518–1594), the last great painter of Italian Renaissance[213]
- Baldassare d'Anna (c. 1560 – after 1639), painter of the late-Renaissance period[214]
- Niccolò Cassana (1659–1714), late-Baroque painter[215]
- Rosalba Carriera (1675–1757), Rococo painter, known for her pastel works[216][217]
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), painter and printmaker. He painted in the Rococo style, Venetian school.[218]
- Canaletto (1697–1768), painter, known for his landscapes or vedute of Venice
- Pietro Longhi (c. 1702 – 1785) painter of contemporary genre scenes of life[219]
- Giuseppe Santomaso (1907–1990), Italian painter
- Emilio Vedova (1919–2006), an important modern painter of Italy
- Ludovico de Luigi (born 1933), Venetian Surrealistic artist
Writing
- Christine de Pizan (1364 – c. 1430), poet and court writer for King Charles VI of France
- Aldus Manutius (1449–1515), an important printer. He founded the Aldine Press.[220]
- Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532–1589), French poet and member of La Pléiade[221]
- Veronica Franco (1546–1591), poet and courtesan during the Renaissance
- Paolo Sarpi (1552–1623), historian, scientist, canon lawyer, statesman, defender of the liberties of Republican Venice. His writings inspired Thomas Hobbes, Edward Gibbon, and the founding fathers of the United States.[222]
- Leon Modena (1571–1648), author, poet and preacher, active in the Venetian Ghetto[223]
- Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793), playwright and librettist, notable name in Italian theatre[224]
- Carlo Gozzi (1720–1806), playwright and champion of commedia dell'arte[225]
- Elisabetta Caminèr Turra (1751–1796), writer and translator of foreign plays
- Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913), English author of the Venetian novel The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole
Doges & public servants
- Enrico Dandolo (c. 1107 – 1205), Doge of Venice from 1192 to his death. He played a direct role in the Sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.[226]
- Pope Eugene IV (1383–1447), pope, 1431–1447, nephew of Pope Gregory XII[227]
- Pope Paul II (1417–1471), pope, 1464–1471. He succeeded Pope Pius II.[228]
- Andrea Gritti (1455–1538), Doge of the Venetian Republic from 1523 to 1538
- Sebastiano Venier (c. 1496 – 1578), Doge of Venice from 11 June 1577 to 1578
- Marco Antonio Bragadin (died 1571), general, flayed alive by the Turks after a fierce resistance during the siege of Famagusta
- Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia(1646–1684), the first woman in the world to receive a doctorate degree
- Jacopo Riccati (1676–1754), a Venetian mathematician. He wrote the Riccati equation.[231]
- Pope Clement XIII (1693–1769), pope, 1758 to his death in 1769[232]
- Enlightenment Era
- Risorgimento in Venice[233]
Explorers
- Marco Polo (c. 1254 – 1324), trader and explorer, one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China[234]
- Sebastian Cabot (c. 1484 – 1557), explorer[235][236]
- Pietro Cesare Alberti (1608–1655), the first Italian-American in New Amsterdam in 1635[237]
- womanizer[238]
Architects
- Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), architect, humanist author, artist, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer[239]
- Baldassare Longhena (1598–1682), exponent of Baroque architecture
- Andrea Tirali (c. 1660 – 1737), architect. He designed the pavement in the Piazza San Marco
- Gran Teatro La Fenice, among others
- Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978), an architect with a profound understanding of materials
Entertainers
- Marietta Zanfretta (1837–1898), high-wire dancer who found success in Europe and the USA
- Romano Scarpa (1927–2005), a noted Italian creator of Disney comics
- Francesco Borgato (born 1990), Italian recording artist and dancer
Sport
- Ercole Olgeni (1883–1947), rower, team gold and silver medallist at the 1920 & 1924 Summer Olympics
- Erminio Dones (1887–1945), rower, team silver medallist at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Dominic DeNucci (1932–2021), Italian-American professional wrestler
- Angelo Spanio (1939–1999), Italian footballer with over 280 club caps
- Ivano Bordon (born 1951), former football goalkeeper with 449 club caps and 21 for Italy
- Roberto Ravaglia (born 1957), racing driver and founder of ROAL Motorsport
- Alessandro Santin (born 1958), racing driver
- Mauro Numa (born 1961), fencer and gold medallist at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Andrea Borella (born 1961), fencer, team gold medallist at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Andrea Cipressa (born 1963), fencer, team gold medallist at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Dorina Vaccaroni (born 1963), former foil fencer, three time medallist at the 1984, 1988 & 1992 Summer Olympics
- Daniele Scarpa (born 1964), sprint canoer, gold and silver medallist at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Carolina Morace (born 1964), former footballer with over 220 club caps and 150 for Italy women
- Giuseppe Cipriani (born 1965), racing driver
- Tommaso Rocchi (born 1977), former footballer with 664 club caps
- Giovanni Paramithiotti. He was the founding chairmen and owner of Inter Milan football club.
See also
- List of islands of Italy
- List of buildings and structures in Venice
- List of bridges in Venice
- List of churches in Venice
- List of car-free places
- List of painters and architects of Venice
- Outline of Italy
- Su e zo per i ponti
- Venetian blinds
- Venetic language – the ancient spoken language of the region
- Venezia Mestre Rugby FC – a rugby team
- Venice of the East
- Venice of the North
- Venice of the South
Notes
- ^ Traditional date as given in William J. Langer, ed. An Encyclopedia of World History.
- ^ In other areas of Italy similar sweets are known by many other names, e.g. cénci (rags) (Florence), frappe (flounces) (Rome), bugìe (lies) (Turin, Genoa, etc.), chiàcchiere (chatter) (Milan and many other places in northern, central and southern Italy). Vid.: Pellegrino Artusi, La Scienza in cucina e l'Arte di mangiar bene, 93ª ristampa, Firenze, Giunti, 1960, p. 387, #595; Ranieri da Mosto, Il Veneto in cucina, Firenze, Aldo Martello-Giunti, 1974, p. 364; Luigi Veronelli (edited by), Il Carnacina, 10th ed., Milano, Garzanti, 1975, p. 656, #2013; to name but a few.
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