Venedik — Venice

Venice

City of Venice

Venice is a dream that shines parlamak on the waters, a city of painted palaces and serene huzurlu churches. This unique urban şehir masterpiece şaheser has canals instead of streets, boats instead of buses, and ornate şatafatlı bridges instead of subways metro. A trip to Venice provides sağlamak an unforgettable glimpse göz atmak of life.

Venice is the capital ana of region Veneto, and possesses sahip olmak a population nüfus of 271,663 (census nüfus sayımı calculated January 1, 2004). The city is contained with Padua (Padova) in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area. Venice's nicknames comprehend kapsamak Queen of the Adriatic, City of Water, City of Bridges, and The City of Light. It is also the seat of Education in Europe.

The first villages on the Venice Lagoon islands date back to the 5th and 6th centuries, when the inhabitants sakin from the mainland anakara came to this semi-swamp bataklık area to escape the barbaric vahşi attacks that followed the fall sonbahar of the Roman Empire. The populations coming from mainland Venice settled in the lagoon lagün, fighting as hard as they could to survive: little by little this group of pieces of land surrounded by water took on the semblance görüntü of a real town, a town that was so unique eşsiz and special that it would become the only one of its kind in the world. The new inhabitants built several rafts sal of various sizes, supported by strong wooden poles direk that were fixed to the underside alt taraf. The rafts were connected to each other with wooden walkways and houses, buildings and monuments anıt were then built on them.

Venice is built on 117 small islands, and holds one hundred and fifty canals, linked by an amazing four hundred and nine bridges, of which only three cross the main canal. The area it covers is a mere yalnız 458 kilometres. Although the city appears ortaya çıkmak small, it is really large. While most tour guides don't recommend tavsiye etmek getting lost in the majority of cities, Venice is the place to get hopelessly lost for a day; it is certainly more advisable than getting lost in a shopping centre and hiding out in any foods section. However, Venice isn't all cities and crowded streets: through the mysterious alleyways dar yol leading off from the city, endless mazes labirent of backstreets and deserted terkedilmiş squares, you'll find the 'real' Venice, and it's a perfect place to walk for hours on end, pretending to know where you are.

The Grand Canal delimits sınırlamak the six main central neighbourhoods (sestieri). The heart of the city is San Marco,cradled korumak by the great lower bend of the Grand Canal, the Venice of tourist brochure legend. Much of don't-miss Venice is here, but if you want to get away from the tourist crowds head for the backwaters and boatyards of the quieter districts ilçe. To the east is Castello, hard-working, lived-in and traffic- free; to the south, bohemian-chic Dorsoduro is crammed dolu olmak with artistic treasures hazine; to the north, peaceful Cannaregio's off-the-beaten-track churches are a delight güzel; and, in the eye of the lagoon, Santa Croce and San Polo are full of monuments anıt and ideal places for wandering dolamak.

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