Venise - City of cultural heritage
Italian Veneia is a city in Northeast Italy, on the Adriatique coast, in the Gulf of Venise. The whole city is located on 118 islands in a bay that extends 60km, 4km wide, and is connected to the mainland by unique works of art.
Venise and Adriatique sea are separated by a narrow strip of land and 12 km long, both to break the waves and to swim. It is calculated that in the city there are about 200 channels and 400 bridges to cross those channels, many bridges are from ancient times and are precious buildings, the most famous of which is the Rialto Bridge built from in the sixteenth century, there was only one stone arch connecting the two major islands of the city. The 3.8km long canal divides the city into two irregular parts and has 3 overpasses.
On the two banks of this channel, there are quite a number of ancient monuments built in the Middle period (the beginning of the V century to the 15th century) and the Renaissance period (15th century and 16th century). built in the fifteenth century, castle Vedramin - Calergi built in the sixteenth century, castle of Rezzonico, Grande fish and Notre Dame Cathedral of Santa Maria della Salute. This church is a unique architecture built from 1634 to 1654 and completed in 1687 completely designed by the famous architect Longhena (1598 - 1682), with octagonal planes. clearly, with two dome-shaped round towers on the top with a bright pine bulb. In the middle of the city, there is Piazza San Marco and Minor Piazzeta, around the square with many beautiful architecture:
Cathedral of Sant Marc built in the 11th century
Palais des Procuraties Palais des Procuraties castle was built in the fifteenth-nineteenth century, the cathedral of Sant Marc built in the 11th century; bell tower, clock tower built in the 15th century; The main electricity was built in the 13th century in which there were also compositions of famous artists such as Veronese (1528 - 1588), Titien's real name was Tiziano Vecellio (1490 - 1576) and Tintoretto (1518 - 1594).
Vensie first elected consul in 697 to become a minor state in the Roman Empire. From the end of the tenth century to the beginning of the 11th century, Vensie annexed both the Ixitiri peninsula and used Dalmatia in the northwestern part of Yugoslavia today and captured the upper hand in the Near East. By the thirteenth century, Vensie gained some islands in Egée waters but by the end of the 13th century Vensie had no more places in the Near East. At the end of the eighteenth century, was occupied by Napoleon to Austria. In the middle of the nineteenth century, there was an attempt to re-establish the independent republic but failed. From 1866, Vensie was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy and was no longer a nationalist.
Today, Vensie retains an important cultural position and highly developed tourism activities. But Vensie is somewhat degraded: the bay's background tends to decrease, the tidal range is large, and the problem of environmental pollution causes many threatening difficulties to the cultural heritage of the city. . After the flood on November 4, 1966, the Italian Government had to spend a large amount of relief money but it was also impervious. And the Unesco organization had to quickly organize a timely "campaign" for cultural heritage.
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