Venice Italy

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.Venice is the capital of the Veneto region. In 2009 there were 270098 people residing in Venices comune (the population estimate of 272000 inhabitants includes the population of the whole Comune of Venezia around 60000 in the historic city of Venice (Centro storico) 176000 in Terraferma (the Mainland) mostly in the large frazioni (roughly equivalent to parishes or wards in other countries) of Mestre and Marghera 31000 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 1600000. PATREVE is only a statistical metropolitan area without any degree of autonomy.