VirtualGlobetrotting: Italy: Venice

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Elton John's house
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Elton John owns this home on Giudecca Island in Venice Italy.

Poveglia Island - haunted island in Italy
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Poveglia is a small island located between Venice and Lido in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. A small canal divides the island into two parts. It is off-limits to visitors.
According to legend, during Roman times it was used to isolate thousands of plague victims, and during the three occasions when the Black Death spread through Europe, the island was effectively used as a lazaretto and plague pit - it was considered an efficient way of keeping the infected people separated from the healthy. According to this version, over 160,000 people died on the island throughout its history. The island used in 1576 to accommodate those hit by the plague was not Poveglia, but Lazzaretto Nuovo.
Another legend surrounds a building erected in 1922 on the island, which was used for various purposes, including usage as a mental hospital. The legend states that a particular mental health doctor tortured and butchered many of the patients, before going "mad" and jumping to his death from the bell tower. According to that same legend, he survived the fall, but was 'strangled by a mist that came up from the ground'. It's ruins remain to this day. The institution in question has been described as a retirement home, but evidence on the island shows that despite the controversy, at least part of the building housed mental patients.
The island has been featured on the paranormal reality shows Scariest Places on Earth and Ghost Adventures.

Ponte dell'Accademia
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Tits' bridge / Ponte delle Tette
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By: dda.
Courtesans were encouraged to stand topless on the Ponte Della Tette, or Bridge of Tits, as it's still known today, to entice and convert suspected gays.

Gabbiano (Gull)
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By: berli110.
In Venice there is many of this birds (gabbiani)

Johnny Depp's Venetian Palazzo
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American actor/screenwriter/director/producer, Johnny Depp recently purchased Palazzo Donà Sangiantoffetti for £8.58million (roughly $17M USD).

'Royal Clipper' World's largest sail cruise ship
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The Royal Clipper is the first fully rigged square-rigged ship with five masts since the Preussen, launched in 1902, one of the last sail powered bulk cargo ship. The Preussen was then the largest and fastest sailing vessel ever built.
The Royal Clipper Today, the Royal Clipper approximates the Preussen in all major measurements, but is optimised for passenger comfort rather than cargo carrying, and the overall look of the new vessel is based upon the former German sailing ship.
At 133.8 meters length the Royal Clipper is by far the largest true sail vessel afloat anywhere today. She accommodates 228 passengers and 105 crewmembers, and has three swimming pools, a stern marina platform, a spa and a three deck combined atrium and dining room.

Saint Mark's Square
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Venetian Arsenal
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The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) is a shipyard and naval depot that played a leading role in Venetian empire-building.
Initially the state dockyard worked merely to maintain naval ships built privately, but in 1320 the Arsenal Nuovo was built, much larger than the original. It enabled all the state's navy and the larger merchant ships to be both constructed and maintained in one place. The Arsenal incidentally became an important centre for rope manufacture, while housing for the arsenal workers grew up outside its walls.
Venice developed methods of mass-producing warships in the Arsenal, including the frame-first system to replace the Roman hull-first practice. The new system was much faster and required less wood. At the peak of its efficiency in the early 16th century, the Arsenal employed some 16,000 people who apparently were able to produce nearly one ship each day, and could fit out, arm, and provision a newly-built galley with standardized parts on a production-line basis not seen again until the Industrial Revolution. (nationmaster.com)

Venetian Jewish Ghetto
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The map is centered on the main piazza of the Venetian Jewish Ghetto.
The Venetian Ghetto was the area of Venice in which Jews were compelled to live under the Venetian Republic. It is from its name, in the Venetian language, that the word "ghetto", used in many languages, is derived.

Rialto Bridge
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The first bridge to connect the two halves of Venice.

Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)
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Basilica San Marco
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St Mark's Basilica (Italian: Basilica di San Marco in Venezia) is the most famous of the churches of Venice and one of the best known examples of Byzantine architecture. It lies on St Mark's Square, adjacent and connected to the Doge's Palace and has been the seat of the Patriarch of Venice, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice since 1807.
The first St Mark's was a temporary building in the Doge’s Palace, constructed in 828, when Venetian merchants acquired the supposed relics of Saint Mark the Evangelist from Alexandria. This was replaced by a new church on its present site in 832. The new church was burned in a rebellion in 976, rebuilt in 978 and again to form the basis of the present basilica in 1063.

Ponte delle Guglie
The Ponte delle Guglie is one of two in Venice to span the Canale di Cannaregio. It lies near the western end of the canal, by Santa Lucia station.
Originally a wooden structure, it was replaced by the current stone and brick bridge in 1580. Obelisks lie at each end, carved balustrades run either side of the walkway, and gargoyles decorate its arch.

MOSE Project - Venice flood control
This new island in in Venice is part of the MOSE Project.
The MOSE Project (acronym for Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico — in English, Experimental Electromechanical Module) is a project intended to protect the city of Venice, Italy. Is an integrated defence system consisting of rows of mobile gates able to isolate the Venetian Lagoon from the Adriatic Sea when the tide reaches above an established level (110 cm) and up to a maximum of 3 m. Together with other complementary measures such as coastal reinforcement, the raising of quaysides and paving and improvement of the lagoon environment, these barriers will protect the city of Venice from extreme events such as the floods and from morphological degradation. Work on the project has been underway since 2003 at the three lagoon inlets of Lido, Malamocco and Chioggia, the gaps connecting the lagoon with the sea and through which the tide ebbs and flows. The name MOSE is also a play on the Italian name for Moses, Mosè.

Marco Polo's House (Former)
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Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveler from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently met Kublai Khan. In 1269, they returned to Venice to meet Marco for the first time. The three of them embarked on an epic journey to Asia, returning after 24 years to find Venice at war with Genoa; Marco was imprisoned, and dictated his stories to a cellmate. He was released in 1299, became a wealthy merchant, married and had three children. He died in 1324, and was buried in San Lorenzo.
Their pioneering journey inspired Christopher Columbus and others. Marco Polo's other legacies include Venice Marco Polo Airport, the Marco Polo sheep, and several books and films. He also had an influence on European cartography, leading to the introduction of the Fra Mauro map.

Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti
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Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti is a palace in Venice, Italy,
It was erected in 1565. In the nineteenth century it was internally modernised and externally enriched in "Venetian Gothic" style, with rich window framing, by a series of grand owners.

Italian submarine Enrico Dandolo (S-513)
Built in 1969 and decommissioned in June 30, 1999.

Fondaco dei Turchi
The Fondaco dei Turchi, or (Venetian: Fontega dei Turchi), is a 13th century palazzo on the Grand Canal of Venice.
The palace was constructed in the first half of the 13th century by Giacomo Palmier, an exile from Pesaro. The Venetian Republic purchased it in 1381 for Niccolò II d'Este, the Marquess of Ferrara. During it's early history, the palazzo also served as a home to many visiting dignitaries.
From the seventeenth century until 1838, served as a one-building-ghetto for Venice's Ottoman Turkish population. The palace then served as a combination home, warehouse, and market for the Turkish traders.
A number of restrictions were placed on the palazzo and its residents, including restrictions on the times one was able to enter and leave the ghetto, as well as on trading. Among other things, Venetian Turks imported wax, oil, crude wool to the city.
When the Venetian Republic was abolished by Napoleon Boneparte in 1797, the Turkish traders continued to live in the palazzo until 1838.
From 1890 to 1923, the area was home the Museo Correr collection, which was moved to the Procuratie Nuove and Ala Napoleonica musems, at the Piazza San Marco, after 1923. Today, the area houses the Venetian Museum of Natural History, with historical collections of flora and fauna, fossils, and an aquarium.

Teatro La Fenice
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Teatro La Fenice "The Phoenix" is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of the most famous theatres in Europe, the site of many famous operatic premieres. Its name reflects its role in permitting an opera company to "rise from the ashes" despite losing the use of two theatres (to fire and legal problems respectively). Since opening and being named La Fenice, it has twice burned and been rebuilt.

Peggy Guggenheim Museum
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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is among the most important museums in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century. It is located in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice. The museum was inaugurated in 1980 and presents Peggy Guggenheim's personal collection of 20th century art, masterpieces from the Gianni Mattioli Collection, the Nasher Sculpture Garden, as well as temporary exhibitions.
The museum itself is comprised of the main home on the Grand Canal, and several side buildings that ring a large courtyard. The public entrance door is off a small canal that at this point runs parallel to the Grand Canal, behind the residence / museum.
This is a small but spectacular collection, though I have never seen a more pretentious bunch of museum goers anywhere! By itself, this museum is worth a trip to Venice.

'The Last land' by Hans Schabus (Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale)
APOLLO'S prize for best pavilion, however, goes to Austria. A forty-metre-high mountain has sprung up and enveloped the building, the corners of which occasionally protrude from the artificial rock face. Hans Schabus's The Last Land is a wooden structure, complete with staircases, covered with a basic roofing fabric. Visitors enter the mountain, and take the wooden stairs into the building, then through a gap in its roof--where broken paint and metal girders become visible--to the peak, where a chimney-like balcony offers (apart from vertigo) a view of the nearby pavilions. While much contemporary art is in the form of installations, few have collapsed so completely the interior and exterior of a gallery.

Parco Savorgnan
The Parco Savorgnan, a public park hidden behind the Palazzo Venier in the Cannaregio neighborhood.

Santa Maria della Salute
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By: DonMartini.
The church of Santa Maria della Salute is a case in point. In October of 1630, after nearly a third of Venice's 150,000 citizens had been killed by plague, the Venetian Senate made an offer to God: "Stop the plague, and we'll build a church to honor the Virgin Mary."
God came through, or maybe the onset of cooler weather reduced the population of plague-ridden fleas. Whatever the reason, the plague was stopped in its tracks. The Venetian authorities honored their promise by giving the Virgin a prime chunk of real estate near the tip of Dorsoduro, where the Grand Canal merged with St. Mark's Basin.
In the resulting competition for a church design, the winner was an unknown architect named Baldassare Longhena, who had proposed a massive octagonal basilica that combined elements of Venetian Byzantine architecture with domes inspired by St. Peter's in Rome. Longhena described his design as "strange, worthy, and beautiful...in the shape of a round 'machine' such as had never been seen, or invented either in its whole or in part from any other church in the city."

Doge's Palace
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The Doge's Palace (Ital. Palazzo Ducale) is a gothic palace in Venice.
The current palace was largely constructed from 1309 to 1424 on 9th century origins, designed perhaps by Filippo Calendario. Giovanni and Bartolomeo Buon created the so-called Porta della Carta, a monumental late-gothic gate on the Piazzetta side of the palace.
The palace was the residence of the Doge and contained the offices of a number of political institutions. The first floor was occupied by lawyers offices; the Chancellery; the Censors and the Naval Offices. On the second floor were the Grand Council chamber, the Ballot chamber and the Doge's apartments. The third floor boasts the Sala del Collegio (adorned with paintings, including those of several Doges, and Paolo Veronese's Lepanto) where foreign ambassadors were received. There are rooms used by the government bodies like the Council of Ten as well. The building also contains the Bussola chamber, where citizens could submit written complaints; The Sala dei Tre Capi and the State Inquisitor Room.
Perhaps the most spectacular room is the Grand Council chamber or Sala del Maggior Consiglio, originally the meeting place for the legislature. This huge space is lined, walls and ceiling, with paintings, particularly portraits of the Doges, but one of which, Tintoretto's vast Paradise, is reputedly the world's largest painting on canvas.
Another great room is the Sala dello Scrutinio, with some more Doges, and other interesting paintings, including Andrea Vicentino's Lepanto.
At the rear of the palace is the Bridge of Sighs, connecting to the prison.

Stadio Pierluigi Penzo
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"Palazzo Grassi" by Giorgio Massari
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Palazzo Grassi (also known as the Palazzo Grassi-Stucky) is an edifice in the Venetian Classical style located on the Grand Canal of Venice, northern Italy. It was designed by Giorgio Massari, and the building was completed between 1748 and 1772.
The latecomer among the palaces on the Grand Canal of Venice, Palazzo Grassi has an academic classical style that is in contrast to the surrounding Byzantine Romanesque and Baroque Venetian palazzi. It has a formal palace façade, constructed in white marble, and lacking the lower mercantile openings typical of many Venetian patrician palaces.
The Grassi family sold the palazzo in 1840, with ownership that followed passing through many different individuals. The Palazzo was purchased by the Fiat Group in 1983, under the late chairman Gianni Agnelli, and it underwent a complete restoration overseen by Count Antonio Foscari Widmann Rezzonico, the current owner of Villa Foscari. The group's aim was to transform Palazzo Grassi into an exhibition hall for the visual arts. It continues to be used as an art gallery today.
Between 1984 and 1990, Pontus Hultén was in charge of the art museum which also contains a 600 seat outdoor theatre. Since 2006, the palace has been owned by the french entrepreneur François Pinault who exhibits his personal art collection there. Currently, there is some interest in the Grassi family, who reside in New York, to purchase the palazzo back with the intentions of maintaining it as an art museum.

Ponte degli Scalzi
The Ponte degli Scalzi (or Ponte dei Scalzi), literally, "bridge of the barefoot", is one of only three in Venice to span the Grand Canal.
The bridge connects the sestieri of Santa Croce and Cannaregio. On the north side, Cannaregio, are the Chiesa degli Scalzi (church of the barefoot) and the Santa Lucia (Ferrovia) railway station. The south side, Santa Croce, is close to the bus station Piazzale Roma.
Designed by Eugenio Miozzi, it was completed in 1934, replacing an Austrian iron bridge.
Ponte degli Scalzi is located close to the site of construction of the fourth bridge over the Grand Canal, to be known as Ponte di Calatrava. Construction has been delayed, and is still in progress (as of February 2006). This bridge will be slightly closer to the bus station.

Bridge of Sighs / Ponte dei Sospiri
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The Bridge of Sighs or Ponte dei Sospiri is one of many bridges in Venice built in the 16th century. The bridge is of white limestone and has windows with stone bars, the summit of this enclosed bridge. It passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the old prisons to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace.

Holland America Lines ship 'Rotterdam'

Minoan Lines HighSpeed Ferry 'Ariadne Palace'
Venice - Patra (Patras) - Corfu - Igoumenitsa ferry.

Casino Municipale di Venezia
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Church of San Geremia
Church built in the eleventh century, was rebuilt in the thirteenth century and consecrated in the 1292 and, of this period conserves the bell-tower maded with bricks, while the facade is clearly from the nineteenth century.
Interior has a Greek plan - clearly inspired to the model of Salute Church (sestriere of Dorsoduro) - and was built on the project of architect Carlo Corbellini; altars keep paintings of the eighteenth century as La morte di San Giuseppe by Francesco Maggiotto, La Vergine che assiste all'incoronazione di Venezia by Jacopo Palma il Giovane; while on the main altar find place two statues - San Pietro and il Profeta Geremia - sculpted in the 1798 by Torretti (Giovanni Ferrari).

Superyacht Carinthia VII
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97.20 meter (319 ft) superyacht Carinthia VII at Venice, Italy. Image in 45° perspective! Owner is Heidi Horten.

Historic Venetian rope making facility (rope walk)
In the Middle Ages (from the thirteenth century to the eighteenth century), from the British Isles to Italy, ropes were constructed in so-called rope walks, very long buildings where strands the full length of the rope were spread out and then laid up or twisted together to form the rope. The cable length was thus set by the length of the available rope walk. This is related to the unit of length termed cable length. This allowed for long ropes of up to 300 yards long or longer to be made.

Chiesa degli Scalzi / Church of the Scalzi (Formerly Nazaretta)
The Chiesa degli Scalzi, or "Church of the Barefoot Ones," is named after the Barefoot Carmelites monks who have made this church their home for more than three centuries. Built between 1660 and the early 18th Century, the church stands as one of Venice?s most beautifully and ornately designed churches, with a grand façade designed by Giuseppe Sardi.

Lido di Venezia
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St Mark's Basilica
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The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark (officially known in Italian as the Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco and commonly known as Saint Mark's Basilica) is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice, northern Italy.

Venezia Santa Lucia railway station
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Venezia Santa Lucia railway station (Italian: Stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia) is a terminal railway station serving the city of Venice, Italy. It is also the only railway station in the historic city of Venice (Italian: Centro storico).
The station is one of Venice's two most important railway stations, the other one being Venezia Mestre, a junction station in Venice's mainland frazione of Mestre. Both stations are managed by Grandi Stazioni, and they are linked with each other by the Ponte della Libertà (English: Liberty Bridge) between the mainland and the historic city.

Fokker 100 "Simod Shoes"
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Venice
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Renzo Piano's House (Former)
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Renzo Piano is an Italian Pritzker Prize-winning architect. In 2006, Piano was selected by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Church of San Stae
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"Don't Look Now" movie location. The funeral, which ends the film, is at the 17th century Church of San Stae (a contraction of San Eustachio) at Campo San Stae on the northern curve of Canal Grande.

Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice
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Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice by Giovan Battista Tiepolo is a painting in the Doge's Palace, completed in 1750. The painting is seen as a symbol of the wealth and power of the Republic of Venice based on their control of the sea.

Private yacht in Venice

Church of San Simeon Piccolo
This imposing church is located opposite the Santa Lucia train station. The Church of San Simeon Piccolo was built at the beginning of the 18th century and was intended to be a copy of the Pantheon in Rome; this is why it has a large green dome, with the statue of San Salvatore on the top. This building has been used as an auditorium for concerts for some time now.

Azienda Consorzio Trasporti Veneziano (ACTV) vaporetto
Most Venetians now travel by motorised waterbuses (vaporetti) which ply regular routes along the major canals and between the city's islands.
Azienda Consorzio Trasporti Veneziano (ACTV) is the name of the public transport system in Venice. It combines both land transportation, with buses, and canal travel, with water buses (vaporetti). In total, there are 25 routes which connect the city.

San Michele Cemetery
San Michele is Venice's cemetery--a role it has borne with dignity since the early 1800s, when Napoleon's occupying forces told the Venetians to start hauling their dead across the water instead of burying them all over town.

Campo San Polo
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Entrance to the Arsenal Venice
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The Arsenal was the Shipyard of Venice . The Byzantine-style establishment may have existed as early as the 8th century, though the present structure is usually said to have been begun in 1104, although there is no evidence for such a precise date. It definitely existed by the early thirteenth century and is mentioned in Dante's Inferno. The name probably comes from Arabic Dar al Sina’a ("Dockyard") and the concept was clearly Islamic as much as Byzantine.
Initially the state dockyard worked merely to maintain naval ships built privately, but in 1320 the Arsenal Nuovo was built, much larger than the original. It enabled all the state's navy and the larger merchant ships to be both constructed and maintained in one place. The Arsenal incidentally became an important centre for rope manufacture, while housing for the arsenal workers grew up outside its walls.

The replica Horses of Saint Mark
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The Triumphal Quadriga or Horses of St Mark's is a set of bronze statues of four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga (a four-horse carriage used for chariot racing) The horses were placed on the facade, on the balcony above the porch, of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, northern Italy after the sack of Constantinople in 1204. They remained there until looted by Napoleon in 1797 but were returned in 1815. The quadriga have been removed from the facade and placed in the interior of St. Mark's for conservation purposes, with replicas in their position on the balcony.

San Giorgio Maggiore
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San Giorgio Maggiore is a church in Venice, Italy designed by Andrea Palladio and located on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore.
Begun in 1566, the church was not entirely finished before the death of Palladio in 1580. The façade was continued by Vincenzo Scamozzi based on the original architect's designs and completed in 1610.

Piazza San Marco & Palazzo Ducale
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Boat ride on the Venetian Canals. Pretty great SV feature.

Ca' Corner della Regina
Palazzo Corner della Regina, commonly known as Ca' Corner della Regina, is a Baroque-style palace in the Sestiere Santa Croce of the city of Venice, Italy. In the English language, the title conforms with Palace of the Queen from the "Corner (or Cornaro) Family"; it is so named because Caterina Cornaro, who became Queen of Cyprus by marriage, was born to this family and at this site in 1454. The palace is located on the Grand Canal, near Ca' Pesaro, and between Ca' Favretto and Palazzo Correggio.

Harry's Bar
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Venice landmark that has been frequented by many famous people such as Ernest Hemingway, Guglielmo Marconi, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Truman Capote, and Orson Welles.

San Barnaba Church
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The church, the San Barnaba, was featured in numerous films including Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where it served as the exterior to the library.

Ponte dei Sospiri
The Bridge of Sighs (Italian: Ponte dei Sospiri) is a bridge located in Venice, northern Italy. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone and has windows with stone bars. It passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the New Prison to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. It was designed by Antoni Contino (whose uncle Antonio da Ponte had designed the Rialto Bridge), and was built in 1602.

Murano: The Glass Island
Murano was a commercial port as far back as the 7th Century, and by the 10th Century it had grown into a prosperous trading center with its own coins, police force, and commercial aristocracy. Then, in 1291, the Venetian Republic ordered glassmakers to move their foundries to Murano because the glassworks represented a fire danger in Venice, whose buildings were mostly wooden at the time. (europeforvisitors.com)

Piazzale Roma parking structure
If you own a car and live in Venice this is where you park it.

Venice Train Station

'Sabot' by Alexander Calder
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at the Guggenheim Collection

Constitution bridge by S. Calatrava
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The Ponte della Costituzione is the fourth bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.
It was designed by Santiago Calatrava, and was moved into place (connecting Stazione di Santa Lucia to Piazzale Roma) in 2007, amid protest by opposition's politicians. It was finished in 2008 and opened to the public on the night of September 11, 2008.

Hotel Danieli (Palazzo Dandolo)
Hotel Danieli, formerly Palazzo Dandolo, is a five-star palatial hotel in Venice, Italy. It was built at the end of the 14th century by one of the Dandolo families. CNN cites it as one of the top five "lavish hotels" in the city. In 2010, extensive footage was shot at the hotel for The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.

Cruise ship in Venice
I don't recognize the cruise line.

Piazza San Marco
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Cantiere Navale
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1st. Regement Lagunari Serenissima - Sant'Andrea Base
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The Lagunari (from the Italian "laguna" = lagoon) are amphibious troops of the Italian Army. Today's Lagunari regiment Serenissima has its headquarters in Mestre, a borough of Venice, and is subordinate to the Pozzuolo del Friuli Cavalry Brigade .
In the image you can also see 3 AAV-7

MV Zenith

Gondolas
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ATR ATR-72-500 "Air Dolomiti"
Specifications (72-500)
General characteristics
Crew: 2
Capacity: 62-74 passengers
Wingspan: 27.050 m (88 ft 9 in)
Height: 7.650 m (25 ft 1 in)
Wing area: 61.00 m² (656.6 ft²)
Empty weight: 12,950 kg (28,550 lb)
Loaded weight: 22,970 kg (50,640 lb)
Useful load: 7,850 kg (17,306 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 22,800 kg (50,265 lb)
Powerplant: 2× Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127F 6 blade Hamilton Standard 568F, 1,846 kW (2,475 hp) each
Performance
Cruise speed: 511 km/h (276 knots, 318 mph)
Service ceiling 7,000 m (21,000 ft)

M/S Andrea

Aman Canal Grande (George Clooney & Amal Alamuddin Wedding Location)
The American actor and British lawyer 27 Sept 2014 nuptials will take place here, at the Aman Canal Grande.

Air Dolomiti on Final Approach to Marko Polo Airport
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Campanile di San Marco

WWII personnel bomb shelter
The naval ship yard has many of these bomb shelters around the compound to protect the shipyard workers during raids by Allied bombers during WWII.

Scuola Militare Navale Morosini
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Rialto Bridge

Nike missile site near Venice
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Chiesa di San Zulian
The Chiesa di San Giuliano (St Julian), commonly called San Zulian in the Venetian dialect, is a church in Venice. San Zulian is in the parish of San Salvador.
It is situated on the Merceria, the main shopping street of the city. Originally a structure from the 9th century; it underwent a number of reconstructions, including likely after the 1105 fire of the neighborhood. The façade was constructed in 1553-1554 by Jacopo Sansovino, and completed after his death in 1570 by Alessandro Vittoria.
The flattened classical temple façade was paid for by the scholar Tommaso Rangone, whose bronze seated portrait appears above the door. In his hands, the physician Rangone holds sarsaparilla and guaiacum, two plants which he used to treat syphilis and yellow fever. The reliefs also depict a map of the world as was known at his death. As befitting his broad-ranging interests in classic texts, the flanking inscriptions are in Latin (center), Greek (right) and Hebrew (left) text.
The interior was also designed by Sansovino, and the church consecrated in 1580.

Italian bullet train

Batteria Marco Polo

Entrance to the Venetian Arsenal
The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) was a complex of state-owned shipyards and armories clustered together in Venice in northern Italy. It was responsible for the bulk of Venice's naval power during the middle part of the second millennium AD. It was "one of the earliest large-scale industrial enterprises in history".

Collision Course

Teatro La Fenice
Teatro La Fenice is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of the most famous theatres in Europe, the site of many famous operatic premieres. Its name reflects its role in permitting an opera company to "rise from the ashes" despite losing the use of two theatres (to fire and legal problems respectively). Since opening and being named La Fenice, it has burned and been rebuilt twice more.

Princess line cruise ship

Al Palazzo Lion Morosini ("Casino Royale")
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The sinking house

Ponte dei Tre Archi
Built by Andrea Tirali in 1688 and restored in 1794. Its most characteristic feature is an unusual triple arch, which is unique in Venice. Tirali maintained the older design as it appears in the prospective plan by De Barbari (1500).

Hard Rock Cafe Venice

Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
The Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, usually just called the Frari, is a church in Venice, northern Italy. One of the greatest churches in the city, it has the status of a minor basilica. It stands on the Campo dei Frari at the heart of the San Polo district. The church is dedicated to the Assumption (Italian: Assunzione della Beata Virgine).

Gondolas with tourists (and probably a singer)
A tourist gimmick is to have one opera singer with multiple gondolas packed with tourists. Not actually the romantic gondola ride the tourists think they are in for.

Forte Cosenz

Ponte della Costituzione by Santiago Calatrava
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The Ponte della Costituzione (English: Constitution Bridge) is the fourth bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It was designed by Santiago Calatrava, and was moved into place in 2007 (connecting Stazione di Santa Lucia to Piazzale Roma), amid protest by politicians and the general public. The bridge was installed in 2008 and opened to the public on the night of September 11, 2008. The bridge was known as Quarto Ponte sul Canal Grande before the official name was adopted to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Italian constitution in 2008. Tourists and locals in Venice now refer to it as the Calatrava Bridge

Campo Santa Maria Formosa ("Spider-Man: Far From Home")

Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 "Super" Stretch Hercules
The Lockheed Martin C-130J "Super" Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft. The C-130J is a comprehensive update of the venerable Lockheed C-130 Hercules, with new engines, flight deck, and other systems. The Hercules family has the longest continuous production run of any military aircraft in history. During more than 50 years of service, the family has participated in military, civilian and humanitarian aid operations. The Hercules has also outlived several planned successor designs, most notably the Advanced Medium STOL Transport contestants.
The C-130J is available in a standard-length or stretched -30 variant.

Palazzo Labia

Gritti Palace Hotel ("Moonraker")

Ca' Rezzonico
Ca' Rezzonico is a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice. Today, it is a public museum dedicated to 18th-century Venice and one of the 11 venues managed by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.

St Mark's Campanile
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St Mark's Campanile (Campanile di San Marco in Italian) is the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy, located in the Piazza San Marco. It is one of the most recognizable symbols of the city.

Remains of the 15th century Venetian ship assembly line
The Arsenale Novissimo was begun in 1473. It enabled the Arsenal's early assembly line system, in which hulls were constructed in the newer areas of the Arsenal before being fitted out in the old Arsenal.

Church of San Giobbe
Built in the 15th Century, the church of San Giobbe is Venice's earliest example of Tuscan Renaissance architecture. Originally the church was built to house the poor residents of Venice, today, the church offers visitors a view of its famous triptych (three-panelled paintings) by Antonio Vicarini, located in the Sanctuary, and the Cappella Martini, which houses interesting blue and yellow glass and earthenware decorations.