Veneto and Related Topics

Government of Veneto

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The Regional Government of Veneto (Giunta Regionale del Veneto) is the executive of Veneto, one of the twenty regions of Italy.

Second-longest river in Italy, after the Po, rises in the Alps in the province of South Tyrol (Italian: Alto Adige "high Adige"), near the Italian border with Austria and Switzerland, and flows 410 km through most of northeastern Italy to the Adriatic Sea.

The true source of Adige inside a bunker of the Alpine Wall

Graun, the bell tower in the Reschensee.

The Adige between Laas and Göflan in the Vinschgau.

The Adige flowing through Lagarina Valley.

The Adige flowing through Verona, as seen from the Castelvecchio Bridge.

The Adige flowing through Verona seen from Castel San Pietro.

The Adige crosses Trentino and later Veneto, flowing past the town of Rovereto, the Lagarina Valley, the cities of Verona and Adria and the north-eastern part of the Po Plain into the Adriatic Sea.

Dalmatia

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One of the four historical regions of Croatia, alongside Croatia proper, Slavonia, and Istria.

The extent of the Kingdom of Dalmatia (blue) which existed within Austria-Hungary until 1918, on a map of modern-day Croatia and Montenegro

The ancient core of the city of Split, the largest city in Dalmatia, built in and around the Palace of Emperor Diocletian

Rocky beach at Brač island (Croatia), in the Adriatic Sea, during the summer

The historic core of the city of Dubrovnik, in southern Dalmatia

Province of Dalmatia during the Roman Empire

Kingdom of Croatia during the rule of Peter Krešimir IV

An engraving of the seaward walls of the city of Split by Robert Adam, 1764. The walls were originally built for the Roman Diocletian's Palace.

Map of the Republic of Ragusa, dated 1678

Ottoman Bosnia at its peak territorial extent just before the Morean War in 1684

Dalmatian possessions of the Republic of Venice in 1797

Map of Dalmatia, Croatia, and Sclavonia (Slavonia). Engraved by Weller for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge under the Supervision of Charles Knight, dated January 1, 1852. Dalmatia is the area detailed in the smaller map annexed map on the right.

Austrian linguistic map from 1896. In green the areas where Slavs were the majority of the population, in orange the areas where Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians were the majority of the population. The boundaries of Venetian Dalmatia in 1797 are delimited with blue dots.

The Seagull Wings monument in Podgora, dedicated to the fallen sailors of the Yugoslav Partisan Navy

However, after 1866, when the Veneto and Friuli regions were ceded by the Austrians to the newly formed Kingdom Italy, Dalmatia remained part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, together with other Italian-speaking areas on the eastern Adriatic.

Torcello

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Sparsely populated island at the northern end of the Venetian Lagoon, in north-eastern Italy.

Central Torcello, with the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta and the Church of Santa Fosca

Mosaic from the cathedral in the Louvre in Paris.

Sculpture of the Museo provinciale di Torcello.

Torcello as seen from the Venetian lagoon

Although the hard-fought Veneto region formally belonged to the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna since the end of the Gothic War, it remained unsafe on account of frequent Gothic (Sarmatian) invasions and wars: during the following 200 years the Lombards and the Franks fuelled a permanent influx of sophisticated urban refugees to the island’s relative safety, including the Bishop of Altino himself.

Negrar

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Villa Mosconi Bertani and Amarone vineyards

Negrar di Valpolicella is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, about 110 km west of Venice and about 12 km northwest of Verona.

Villa Emo

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One of the many creations conceived by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.

Frescoes by Giovanni Battista Zelotti, west wall of the hall

It is a patrician villa located in the Veneto region of northern Italy, near the village of Fanzolo di Vedelago, in the Province of Treviso.

Pope John Paul I

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Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City from 26 August 1978 to his death 33 days later.

Pope Paul VI makes Luciani a cardinal in 1973

John Paul I photographed from his study's window

Tomb of John Paul I in the Vatican Grottoes

1000 lire silver coin with a portrait of John Paul I on the front (1978)

Albino Luciani approximately at the age of 10, c. 1922-23

Albino Luciani was born on 17 October 1912 in Forno di Canale (now Canale d'Agordo) in Belluno, a province of the Veneto region in Northern Italy.

Murano

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Series of islands linked by bridges in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy.

Church of Santa Maria e San Donato, Murano

Numerous tourists take a vaporetto from Venice to visit Murano

The eight channels separating the islands of Murano

Murano was initially settled by the Romans and from the sixth century by people from Altinum and Oderzo.

Scrovegni Chapel

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Older palace, also bought, and redecorated, by Enrico Scrovegni.

Kiss of Judas, one of the panels in the Scrovegni Chapel

Cast of Giovanni Pisano's effigy of Enrico Scrovegni, in the chapel

Model of the interior of the chapel, towards entrance

Section of the wall, showing the setting of the narrative panels.

The centre of the vault, with Madonna and Child as one of the two suns, and prophets as planets

Expulsion of the money changers from the temple

]]The Scrovegni Chapel (Cappella degli Scrovegni ), also known as the Arena Chapel, is a small church, adjacent to the Augustinian monastery, the Monastero degli Eremitani in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy.