| Venice HotelsVenice is a city in northern Italy, the capital
of region Veneto, and has a population of 281,251. Together
with Padua, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan
Area. Venice's nicknames include "Queen of the Adriatic",
"City of Water", "City of Bridges", and
"The City of Light".
The city stretches across numerous small islands in the marshy
Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy.
The saltwater lagoon stretches along the shoreline between
the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers. The population
estimate of 272,000 inhabitants includes the population of
the whole Comune of Venezia; around 62,000 in the historic
city of Venice; 176,000 in Terraferma, mostly in the large
frazione of Mestre and Marghera; and 31,000 live on other
islands in the lagoon.
The Venetian Republic was a major sea power and a staging
area for the Crusades, as well as a very important center
of commerce and art in the Renaissance. The city-state lost
much of its power and importance due to the decline and fall
of the Byzantine Empire, which Venice helped to destroy. This
was because Turkish control of the Eastern Mediterranean gave
the European maritime powers an incentive to find trade routes
elsewhere.
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