A report on Venice and Veneto

Venice, the primary tourist destination and the capital of Veneto

Venice in autumn, with the Rialto Bridge in the background

Venice view from the Bridge Priuli a Santa Sofia, to the Bridge de le Vele

St Mark's Basilica houses the relics of St Mark the Evangelist

The Doge's Palace, the former residence of the Doge of Venice

The Republic of Venice and its colonial empire Stato da Màr.

Piazza San Marco in Venice, with St. Mark's Campanile.

The Tetrarchs were the four co-rulers who governed the Roman Empire as long as Diocletian's reform lasted. Here they are portrayed embracing, in a posture of harmony, in a porphyry sculpture dating from the 4th century, produced in Anatolia, located today on a corner of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

View of San Giorgio Maggiore Island from St. Mark's Campanile.

The Horses of Saint Mark, brought as loot from Constantinople in 1204.

Monument to Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400-1475), captain-general of the Republic of Venice from 1455 to 1475.

An 18th-century view of Venice by Canaletto.

The Fra Mauro Map of the world. The map was made around 1450 and depicts Asia, Africa and Europe.

The 13th-century Castel Brando in Cison di Valmarino, Treviso.

Venice viewed from the International Space Station

St Mark's Basilica, the seat of the Patriarch of Venice.

Venice and surroundings in false colour, from Terra. The picture is oriented with North at the top.

Acqua alta ("high water") in Venice, 2008

Like Murano, Burano is also a tourist destination, usually reached via vaporetto

The Prato della Valle in Padua, a work of Italian Renaissance architecture.

Bridge of Sighs, one of the most visited sites in the city

Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss.

Venetian Arsenal houses the Naval Historical Museum

The Church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice

Piazzetta San Marco with Doge's Palace on the left and the columns of the Lion of Venice and St. Theodore in the center.

Gondolas share the waterway with other types of craft (including the vaporetti)

Cruise ships access the port of Venice through the Giudecca Canal.

Cruise ship and gondolas in the Bacino San Marco

Aerial view of Venice including the Ponte della Libertà bridge to the mainland.

Giudecca Canal. View from St Mark's Campanile.

Sandolo in a picture of Paolo Monti of 1965. Fondo Paolo Monti, BEIC.

Cruise ships at the passenger terminal in the Port of Venice (Venezia Terminal Passeggeri)

Marco Polo International Airport (Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo)

A trait that shows the structure of the Calà del Sasso

An 18th-century view of Venice by Venetian artist Canaletto.

The Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti is an example of Venetian Gothic architecture alongside the Grand Canal.

The Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world and one of the most prestigious and publicized.

Francesco Guardi's Regatta in Venice, Guardi was a member of the Venetian School.

The Morning Chocolate, by Pietro Longhi. Hot chocolate was a fashionable drink in Venice during the 1770s and 1780s.

Luxury shops and boutiques along the Rialto Bridge.

The Doge Andrea Gritti, reigned 1523–1538, portrait by Titian.

Carlo Goldoni, the most notable name in Italian theatre.

thumb|The Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flangini to Campo San Marcuola, Canaletto, circa 1738, J. Paul Getty Museum.

thumb|Francesco Guardi, The Grand Canal, circa 1760 (Art Institute of Chicago)

thumb|Morning Impression along a Canal in Venice, Veneto, Italy by Rafail Levitsky (1896)

thumb|View from the Bridge of Sighs (2017)

The whole comune (red) in the Metropolitan City of Venice

Palazzo Corner is the seat of the Metropolitan City of Venice

Palazzo Ferro Fini is the seat of the Regional Council of Veneto

Iconic Della Salute by UK based Artist Raouf Oderuth

Venice (Venezia ; Venesia or Venexia ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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The region's capital is Venice while the biggest city is Verona.

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Regional Council of Veneto

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The Regional Council of Veneto (Consiglio Regionale del Veneto) is the regional parliament of Veneto.

The Council, which has its seat at Palazzo Ferro Fini, located along the Grand Canal in Venice.

A bottle of Prosecco di Conegliano spumante extra dry and a glass of Prosecco frizzante, which stops forming bubbles soon after it is poured.

Prosecco (Italian: ) is an Italian DOC or DOCG white wine produced in a large area spanning nine provinces in the Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia regions, and named after the village of Prosecco which is in the province of Trieste, Italy.

The method of vinification, the true distinguishing feature of the original Prosecco, spread first in Gorizia, then – through Venice – in Dalmatia, Vicenza and Treviso.

Lorenzo Lotto

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Lorenzo Lotto (c.

Madonna of the Rosary (1539), oil on canvas.

The Adoration of the Child, (c. 1508), oil on panel.

Portrait of Andrea Odoni (1527), Royal Collection

Venetian Woman in the Guise of Lucretia (1533).

Venus and Cupid, 1530, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Brother Gregorio Belo of Vicenza ,1547, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Intarsia of the choir of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo, 1524-1531

Students from Duke University view Lotto's Allegory of Virtue and Vice at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Born in Venice, he worked in Treviso (1503–1506); in the Marches (1506–1508); in Rome (1508–1510); in Bergamo (1513–1525); in Venice (1525–1549); in Ancona (1549), and finally, as a Franciscan lay brother, in Loreto (1549–1556).

Asolo Altarpiece (1506). Cathedral of Asolo, Veneto