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• Founded: Approx 400-500 B.C.
  Officially recognized at noon on 25 March 421 at the dedication its first church, San Giacomo.
  
• Purpose: prior to 400 B.C. was small fishing homes or communities.  During the fifth and sixth centuries, it was established as a refuge city from attacks by various barbarian tribes (Goths, Huns, Avars, Herulian and Lumbards).
  
• Elevation: Slightly above sea level, but has dropped 22 cm over the past 1,000 years.
  
• size (acres) (apparently not important to any of the writers I found)
  
• Population: Venice Island, approx 60,000; greater Venice region, over 270,000.
  

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Venice:  Famous Features and People

• Venice often refers to the entire lagoon region
  
• 117 Islands +/-; 177 canals +/-; 440 bridges +/-
• Called herself the Serenissima, Serene Republic
  
• Known as a city of cities or a paradise of cities (through the centuries and today)
• Acqua Alta -- high water flooding
• Sirocco  storm winds (from Northern Africa)
  
• Sinking slowly and winter flooding (sinking may have ceased -- a debated issue)
  
• Built on wood pilings on a large lagoon
• St. Mark's Square and Church
• The Grand Canal
  
• Doge's Palace
  
• City of Romance, Art, and Museums
• Vaporetto (boat taxi) is the main mode of transportation between islands.
  
• Gondola Rides
• La Maddalena
  
• Once a world commerce center --
  still a city of world cultures
  
• Marco Polo's birthplace and home between world travels
• Antionio Vivaldi's birthplace (baroque composer, opera composer, and composer of "The Four Seasons" a violin concerto)
• Napoleon Bonaparte
  conquered Venice on 12 May 1797
• Galileo Galilei, frequent visitor who became aware of the possibilities of the telescope while in Venice
• Wolfgang Amadevs Mozart visited (image vthm7684 of building plaque)
  
• Giacomo Favretto's birthplace (Italian painter)
• Henry James visited
• Robert Browning visited
  

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• Images:  Photos taken by Debbie Sonberg
• Banners and graphics: by Debbie Sonberg
• Maps:  Aerial Photos taken by Debbie Sonberg with links to Yahoo Maps
  
• Quick Facts: See Sources/Resource Page
  

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Sources & Resources for Venice

[VNGV]  New Guide of Venice. (2000). Milan, Italy: KINA Italia.

[VDPW]  Doge's Palace, Venice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2012, March 21). Retrieved March 23, 2012, from Wikepedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge%27s_Palace,_Venice.

[VFGW]   Giacomo Favretto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2012, February 4). Retrieved May 23, 2012, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Favretto.

[VGCW] Grand Canal (Venice) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2012, February 26). Retrieved May 23, 2012, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_(Venice).

[VLMW] La Maddalena, Venice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, (2012, September 25). Retrieved May 28, 2012, from Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Maddalena,_Venice.

[VWE]  Venice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2012, May 22). Retrieved May 23, 2012, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice.

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[SDBF] Timing of post-depositional events in the Burano Formation of the Secchia valley. (April 2001, April). 140(1-2), 107-122. Retrieved from Science Direct - Sedimentary Geology: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0037073800001743.

[BARR] Barovier Mentasti, R., Dorigato, A., Gasparetto, A., & Toninato, T. (Eds.). (1982, July). Mille anni di arte del vetro a Venezia (Abstract). Retrieved May 22, 2012, from Conservation Information Network (BCIN): http://www.bcin.ca/Interface/openbcin.cgi?submit=submit&Chinkey=98848.

[VCOW] Commune di Venezia, official Web site. (n.d.). Retrieved May 23, 2012, from Commune di Venezia: http://www.comune.venezia.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/1.

[VGP]   Galileo Project. Retrieved May 28, 2012, from The Galileo Project | Biography | Telescope:  http://galileo.rice.edu

[VBRO] Brown, P. F. (2004). Private Lives in Renaissance Venice. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. /bio/narrative_6.html.

[VGPL]  Gatto, P. (1981). The Lagoon of Venice; natural environmental trend and man-induced modification. Hydrological Sciences Bulletin, 26(#1981), pp. 379-391. doi:10.1080/20626668109490902. Retrieved May 23, 2012, from Taylor & Francis Online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02626668109490902.

[VBCJ]  Jackson, P. (1998). Marco Polo and His "Travels". Cambridge Journals. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies(61), 82-101. doi:10.1017/S00441977X00015779. Retrieved May 23, 2012 from Cambridge Journals: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=3672524.

[VKEA] Keahey, J. (2002). Venice Against the Sea, a City Beseiged (First ed.) New York, New York: Thomas Dunne Books.

[VMOR] Morris, J (1993). The World of Venice. San Diego, CA, USA: Harcourt Brace & Company.

[VMUMP] Murrah, H. (n.d.). The Travels of Marco Polo. Retrieved May 23, 2012.

[VNORW] Norwich, J. J. (2003). Paradise of Cities, Venice in the 19th Century (First ed.). New York, NY, USA: Doubleday.

[VPPMP] Pelliot, P. (1959). Notes on Marco Polo. Notes on Marco Polo. Paris, France. Retrieved May 23, 2012, from http://www.polonews.info/documenti_originali/Tang%20-%20Yuan%20%28907%20-%201368%20d.C.%29/pelliot_notes_d.pdf.