Romance in Venice

by Jean Walker

Title

Romance in Venice

Artist

Jean Walker

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

Venice; Italy,Venice (English /ˈvɛnɪs/ ven-iss; Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛttsja] ( listen)) is a city in northeastern Italy sited on a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges, It is located in the marshy Venetian Lagoon which stretches along the shoreline, between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers. Venice is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture, and its artwork.The city in its entirety is listed as a World Heritage Site, along with its lagoon. ,

Venice is the capital of the Veneto region. In 2009, there were 270,098 people residing in Venice's comune (the population estimate of 272,000 inhabitants includes the population of the whole Comune of Venezia; of whom around 60,000 live in the historic city of Venice (Centro storico); 176,000 in Terraferma (the mainland), mostly in the large frazioni (roughly equivalent to "parishes" or "wards" in other countries) of Mestre and Marghera; and 31,000 on other islands in the lagoon). Together with Padua and Treviso, the city is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), with a total population of 2,600,000. PATREVE is only a statistical metropolitan area without any degree of autonomy.

The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century BC The city was historically the capital of the Republic of Venice. Venice has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Masks", "City of Bridges", "The Floating City", and "City of Canals".

The 3-paintings of Venice - Paris & London were presents for my wonderful Daughter & Future Son-in-Law...!!!

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