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Guy Fieri's Trattoria is the latest of 18 concepts and nearly 100 restaurants bearing the celebrity chef's name. They serve barbecue, sandwiches, tacos, chicken, burgers and other dishes, largely ...
Venice is a city in Sarasota County, Florida, ... was also founded in 1926 by the Venice-Nokomis Women's Club. This "library" was a few books on a shelf in a local ...
Harry's Bar has long been frequented by famous people, and it was a favourite of Ernest Hemingway.Other notable customers have included Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, inventor Guglielmo Marconi, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, Maria Callas, Richard Halliburton, Truman Capote, Orson Welles, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Princess Aspasia of Greece ...
It is the principal Dominican church of Venice, and as such was built to hold large congregations. It is dedicated to John and Paul , not the Biblical Apostles of the same names, but two obscure martyrs of the Early Christian church in Rome, whose names were recorded in the 4th century but whose legend is of a later date.
Punta della Dogana is an art museum in one of Venice's old customs buildings, the Dogana da Mar.It also refers to the triangular area of Venice where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal, and its collection of buildings: the church of Santa Maria della Salute, (hence the area is also known as Punta della Salute), the Patriarchal Seminary of Venice, and Dogana da Mar at the triangle's tip.
Venice (/ ˈ v ɛ n ɪ s / VEN-iss; Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛttsja] ⓘ; Venetian: Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.It is built on a group of 127 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 472 bridges. [3]
The first depot in Venice was located originally at the junction of what is now Tampa and Nokomis Avenues. In 1925, Fred H. Albee purchased 2,916 acres (1,180 ha) of land from the Venice-Sarasota Company. Albee had previously developed Nokomis and built its first luxury hotel, known as the Pollyanna Inn.