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Venice 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 artworks. The city in its entirety is listed as a World Heritage Site, along with its lagoon.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。3 q" z, e& B( Y
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; around 60,000 in the historic city of Venice (Centro storico); 176,000 in Terraferma (the Mainland), mostly in the large frazioni of Mestre and Marghera; 31,000 live 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 1,600,000. PATREVE is only a statistical metropolitan area without any degree of autonomy.5.39.217.767 O8 [: n2 ]2 I' S) P
The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century BC. The city historically was the capital of the Venetian Republic. 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". Luigi Barzini described it in The New York Times as "undoubtedly the most beautiful city built by man".Venice has also been described by the Times Online as being one of Europe's most romantic cities.
' \( u- }3 e( I6 H0 ktvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe Republic of Venice was a major maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain, and spice) and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century. This made Venice a wealthy city throughout most of its history.It is also known for its several important artistic movements, especially the Renaissance period. Venice has played an important role in the history of symphonic and operatic music, and it is the birthplace of Antonio Vivaldi.
2 ^5 W" ~$ x+ J* S, |2 ^威尼斯是義大利東北部著名的旅遊與工業城市，也是威尼托地區的首府。人口約271,251人（2004年1月1日）。威尼斯與帕多瓦組成大帕多瓦-威尼斯地區（人口約1,600,000人）。別名「亞得里亞海的女王」、「水之都」、「面具之城」、「橋之城」、「漂浮之都」、「運河之城」、及「光之城」，Luigi Barzini曾在紐約時報形容它「無疑是最美麗的人造都市」，時代線上也稱讚威尼斯是歐洲最浪漫的城市之一。
: i) S6 h  M( k( V4 ^tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb威尼斯市區涵蓋義大利東北部亞得里亞海沿岸的威尼斯潟湖的118個島嶼和鄰近一個半島。這個鹹水潟湖分佈在波河與皮亞韋河之間的海岸線。
- E3 `& d' ]# n0 vtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb威尼斯曾經是威尼斯共和國的中心，十字軍進行十字軍東征時也曾在這裡集結，而且也是13世紀至17世紀末一個非常重要的商業（尤其是香料貿易、糧食與毛皮貿易）與藝術重鎮。後來因為土耳其人對地中海東邊的控制促使歐洲國家尋找其他航線的慾望，威尼斯因此失去了大部分的重要性與影響力。