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Seldom has anything inspired the world as much as the medieval lagoon city Venice in Italy. Follow our guide to detailed history and construction details and to beautiful galleries about arts, churches and bridges.

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VENICE IN ITALY- HISTORY & CONSTRUCTION

Building Venice as well as its history has been researched and documented very well. Our related index below shows you some excellent sites:

The City as Practice: Urban Topography, Pictorial Construction and Linearity in Venetian Renaissance Painting, 1495-1595 (A dissertation. Excellent and detailed information! Includes also eighteen different tours or navigable paths through the city with several images)
History of Venice ("..Venice was built, according to tradition, in AD 452 when Teutonic tribes invading Italy forced the inhabitants of northern Italian cities to take refuge on the islands in the lagoon. In AD 697.." - Nice site)
Venetian Architecture - The Construction Of Venice ("..The City of Venice is built on a collection of over 100 low islands in the centre of the Lagoon. To overcome these difficult and testing conditions, the Venetians evolved techniques unique to the city in order to overcome the problems associated with the low muddy islands...")
Who were the first settlers of Venice ? ("..The first settlers of Venice were the Ligurians who perhaps came first and established themselves on the Euganei hills arriving here from the sea and the land.." - History of Venice, including maps)
Medieval Sourcebook: Pope Innocent III - License to Venice to Trade With The Saracens, 1198
Venice before San Marco - Recent Studies on the Origin of the City. (Detailed!)
Complete List Of Venetian Doges
The Cornaro Family of Venice
Medieval Sourcebook: The Chronicles of Venice - How the Doges Were Chosen
The Urban Design Politics of Venice, Italy. ("..I would like to illustrate some of the key features of the urban development of Venice and point out how its physical and political structures were designed to maintain civic peace despite the inevitable socio-economic and political disparities..." - Paper)
The Ancient Jewish Cemetery At The Lido In Venice
Foundations of Venetian Naval Strategy from Pietro II Orseolo to the Battle of Zonchio 1000 - 1500 ("..For Venetians during the Middle Ages the sea was life..." - Detailed article)
Venice and translatio imperii - The Relevance of the 1171 Event in the Venetian Chronicles' Tradition

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VENICE ART AND CULTURE

Venice has great treasures of arts. See some of them here:

Forcole and the Boats of Venice ("..information about the history, construction and use of forcole: the rowlocks used in gondolas and other traditional boats of Venice and the Venetian lagoon..." - A nice site)
Art Tour (Nice and plenty of images of Churches, Bridges etc.)
Titian and the Late Renaissance in Venice (National Gallery of Art, Venice)
Giorgione and the High Renaissance in Venice (National Gallery of Art, Venice)
Venetian Painting in the Later Sixteenth Century
History of Murano Glass
The Social Status Of Clothing In Early Modren Venice
Historic Gold Coins from Venice from the Middle Ages
Venice Masquerade - Carnevale plays out on the world's grandest stage

and more...

VENICE MAPS

Venice maps are very well-known. We found however also some ancient ones but also an excellent zoom-in one using the latest technology:

Historic Intent: Lodovico Ughi's Topographical Map of Venice; A Large Wall Map as an Historic Document, a Work of Art, and a Material Artifact
A Map of Venice (Interactive: Click on it to zoom in. Nice done)
Map - Apartments in Central Venice

and more..

VENICE IMAGES AND PHOTO GALLERIES

Venice is truly beautiful and our index of galleries and photos can prove this:

Expedition to Venice (Beautiful site with many nice Venice images, in galleries)
Bridge of Sighs, Venice (Single Image)
Photographs (Venice in black-white)

and more...

VENICE - MIXED

Many more can be said or pictured about Venice. Here are some samples:

Venice ("..a brief account of a trip to Venice, Italy in February 1999. Venice is stunningly pretty, packed with treasures and full of history..")
Mobile barriers for the long-term protection of Venice ("..An international panel of experts, which included IVM researchers, has recently advised the Italian Prime Minister on the technical effectiveness, environmental and economic consequences of a major plan to protect Venice against high water..." - Detailed)
The St. Mark's Clock, Venice ("..history and the recent restoration of St. Mark's Tower Clock, in Venice..)
Masks and Meanings in Tiepolo's Venice - Venice Site
Arsenale/Venice Biennale
Venice in Peril (A fund to preserve Venice. See the nice images of many restorated churches...)
Battling at the Bridge - Stick Fights and Boxing Spectacles in Renaissance Venice ("..About 1669 an anonymous Venetian essayist wrote a detailed history recounting the city’s many guerra di canne or 'war with sticks'...")

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