Venice and canal system

Unesco's Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization recognized Venice and its canal system as a World Cultural Heritage in 1987.

Venice is also known as the City of the Canal , in Latin, Venice means love. Perhaps from this name, this place has long been considered a city of love . Newly married couples in every country dream of a honeymoon in Venice. However, because of the romantic beauty, extremely special, this city has many other nicknames such as floating city, city mask, city of bridges.

Located in the northeast of Italy, Venice is formed from 118 islands and 175 canals connected by 444 bridges. Those same factors have created this unique, unique architecture of this city. With a convenient location at the intersection of sea trade routes between a large part of Western Europe and the rest of the world, Venice quickly became a maritime empire and an important area of ​​preparation. for Crusades as well as an important trade center of the Renaissance Europe.

Venice is a city formed from 118 canals and 444 bridges.

In history and to this day, Venice is a major commercial and artistic center . Venice is home to many famous musicians such as Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Picchi . Many years ago, Venice with Milano became the center of great fashion and shopping in Italy.

There is one more thing that makes Venice more special because it is the only municipality in Europe in the 21st century that exists completely without cars and trucks. Nearly 500 bridges running along the city function as streets, all traffic takes place on canals and on foot.

Venice is the only city in the world where traffic is only waterway and walking.

Coming to Venice, any tourist is impressed by the charm of the city and the traffic here. In the world, only Venice is probably the only city in which the transportation means has only boats. The image of the godola boat - an ancient wooden boat of Venice has become familiar and famous throughout the world. In the past, the godola boat was considered a rich symbol of people in Venice. The wealthy families, the nobles in Venice all have their own boats and are extremely gorgeous and sophisticated. Many boats are gilded, wrapped in silk velvet and loaded with gems. Boat godola with ancient nobles in Venice as a jewelry and show off the family's nobility. Many well-to-do families also raced by boat decoration, which failed to produce, so later the city government had regulations that only allowed the boat to be painted the same black color.

There is a boat to have waterways for boats, the canal system in Venice is collectively referred to as Canal Grande (meaning big channel). Canal Grande is the city's main transport circuit, Canal Grande is also known as the world's most beautiful boulevard, with many unique buildings and high historical value.

On the prestigious boulevard with the most beautiful mansion in Venice, there is the mansion Ca'd Oro . The mansion is an architectural building constructed of multicolored marble and has many gilded decorations outside the façade, so the villa also has another name that is the Golden House. The beautiful Ca'd Oro mansion is more and more shimmering and fanciful and full of romance because it is located right on the famous Rialto bridge.

Villa Ca'd Oro is the pride of Venice.

One of the familiar attractions of visitors to Venice is St. Mark 's Square (Piazza San Marco). This square is located in the center of the city, there are always hundreds of pigeons and a lot of visitors. Around the square are important and important works of Venice such as the Church of San Marco. The church of San Marco is the place where the Venetian body was stolen because of the piousness of the city of Alexeandrie (Egypt) in 828. This church is considered by the people to be the holiest place in the beautiful city. this.

St. Mark's Square and Toore dell'Orologio clock tower are popular destinations not to be missed when visiting Venice.

Venice is well known for the Toore dell'Orologio clock tower. The tower was built between 1496 - 1499, the tower is an astronomical clock depicting the cycles of the moon, sun and zodiac. At the top of the clock tower there are two giant bronze statues, knocking the bell every hour. There is a story about the clock still circulating today that the inventor of the watch has been blinded to not be able to make any more watches after completing this work.

In addition to the extremely unique architecture, Venice is also known for its art of glassblowing that began in the 13th century. Focused mainly on Murano island in the north, about 3km from the city center. . Venice's glass is made from rare, fine sand taken from the sand on the island of Murano. Combined with sophisticated techniques that have been around for centuries, artisans here have created world-famous glass products. There are colors of glass here, no one can mimic the following, such as the blue color created by mixing cobalt with copper.
Venice is also famous for its culinary culture, many seafood dishes with oriental flavor combined with local spices create a separate cuisine. Small pubs in narrow streets are also extremely attractive destinations for tourists.

Masquerade festivals have long become a brand of Venice.

Besides, Venice is also famous for the carnival . Venice's carnival has long been a worldwide brand. The festival is held every 2 years and attracts millions of tourists from all over the world. At this festival, people and visitors will together wear unique and magnificent costumes, masks, blending in the bustling music of the streets. Mask is a very popular product in Venice.

The masks are made of plaster, there are countless different mask styles as well as the price to choose. There are many simple models from 2 to 5 euros, there are also things that are sophisticated for hundreds of euros. Then in the luggage returned from Venice of any tourist can not lack at least one mask, not simply a sophisticated souvenir but also contains the mysterious elements of a legendary Venice.

Venice has an ancient beauty with small, twisted streets and houses with a number of doors . very romantic.

Bringing the beauty of an ancient city to the twisting streets, the type of houses with windows, the architecture of romantic stories, people still call Venice a city of love. But coming to Venice once knew that Venice is also a city of masks, where there is no longer a social division. Venice is a city full of canals, a land of small boats with rowers wearing a wide-brimmed hat, with a friendly and funny red scarf. Many people say Venice is the city of anonymous street artists. They don't need the so-called " famous". They are famous in their own way, though sometimes suffer from deprivation.

Venice is like that, ancient but still modern, quiet but still vibrant, arrogant but also looks simple. Venice attracts everyone from couples who are in love with the elderly. So this city is one of the cities that attracts the most tourists in the world. On average every day in Venice there are 50,000 visitors.