A report on Veneto and Brenta (river)
The Brenta is an Italian river that runs from Trentino to the Adriatic Sea just south of the Venetian lagoon in the Veneto region, in the north-east of Italy.
- Brenta (river)Several rivers flow through the region: the Po, Adige, Brenta, Bacchiglione, Livenza, Piave, and Tagliamento.
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Venice
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Venice (Venezia ; Venesia or Venexia ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta and the Sile).
Padua
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Padua (Padova ; Pàdova) is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy.
The Brenta River, which once ran through the city, still touches the northern districts.
Adriatic Sea
2 linksBody of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Illyrian Peninsula.
Body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Illyrian Peninsula.
The Adriatic Sea is a semi-enclosed sea, bordered in the southwest by the Apennine or Italian Peninsula, in the northwest by the Italian regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and in the northeast by Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania—the Balkan peninsula.
Sediments deposited in the Adriatic Sea today generally come from the northwest coast, being carried by the Po, Reno, Adige, Brenta, Tagliamento, Piave and Soča rivers.
Venetian Lagoon
2 linksEnclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated.
Enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated.
The Venetian Lagoon stretches from the River Sile in the north to the Brenta in the south, with a surface area of around 550 km2.
Venice Lagoon was inhabited from the most ancient times, but it was only during and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire that many people, coming from the Venetian mainland, settled in a number large enough to found the city of Venice.
Bacchiglione
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The Bacchiglione (Medoacus Minor, "Little Medoacus") is a river that flows in Veneto, northern Italy.
It rises in the Alps and empties about 90 mi later into the Brenta River near Chioggia.
Bassano del Grappa
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Bassano del Grappa (Basan or Bassan, ) is a city and comune, in the Vicenza province, in the region of Veneto, in northern Italy.
Its highest point is at 1276 m, whereas the lowest point is at 84 m. The city lies at the foothills of the Venetian Prealps, where river Brenta comes out the southern end of Canal di Brenta (also called Valbrenta 'Brenta valley') and flows in the lowlands at the borders of Vicenza, Treviso and Padua provinces.
Villa Pisani, Stra
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Villa Pisani at Stra refers to the monumental, late-Baroque rural palace located along the Brenta Canal (Riviera del Brenta) at Via Doge Pisani 7 near the town of Stra, on the mainland of the Veneto, northern Italy.
From the outside, the facade of the oversized palace appears to command the site, facing the Brenta River some 30 kilometers from Venice.