Venezia or Venice in english is a city in northern Italy, the capital of the region Veneto. Together with Padua, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area population 1,600,000. The city historically was an independent nation. Venice has been known as the “La Dominante”, “Serenissima”, “Queen of the Adriatic”, “City of Water”, “City of Bridges”, and “The City of Light”. Luigi Barzini, writing in The New York Times, described it as “undoubtedly the most beautiful city built by man”.
the Venice Gondola
Vaporetto or water bus is the most amazing method of getting around Venice; you won’t find too many public transport routes as unforgettable as vaporetto. The classic gondola ride with the opera-warbling operator is pretty touristy and expensive but the traghetto is a commuter gondola that crosses the Grand Canal at strategic points. There are also Water taxis (motorboats) which are almost as expensive as the gondolas.
Districts of Venice
The city is divided into the six districts of Cannaregio, San Polo, Dorsoduro (including the Giudecca), Santa Croce, San Marco (including San Giorgio Maggiore), and Castello (including San Pietro di Castello and Sant’Elena). At the front of the Gondolas that work in the city there is a large piece of metal intended as a likeness of the Doge’s hat.
Doge’s Palace
The Doge’s Palace is a gothic palace in Venice. In Italian it is called the Palazzo Ducale di Venezia. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice. Its two most visible facades look towards the Venetian Lagoon and St Mark’s Square, or rather the Piazzetta. There are a number of nineteenth-century imitations of the palace’s architecture in the United Kingdom, these include the Wool Exchange, Bradford, the Wedgwood Institute, Burslem, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh and Templeton’s Carpet Factory in Glasgow.