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The Republic of Venice, [a] officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenìssima, [b] was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice. Founded, according to tradition, in 697 by Paolo Lucio Anafesto , over the course of its 1,100 years of history it established itself as one of the ...
The Most Serene Republic of Lucca (Italian: Serenissima Repubblica di Lucca), a city-state that existed from 1119 to 1799 based in the city of Lucca, in northern Tuscany, Italy. Lucca was the third largest Italian city state (after Venice and Genoa) with a republican constitution (comune) to remain independent over the centuries. [5]
Sacile: il giardino della Serenissima (the garden of the Most Serene republic of Venice) Sanremo: la città dei fiori (the city of flowers) Sesto San Giovanni: la Stalingrado d'Italia (the Stalingrad of Italy) Siena: la città del Palio (the city of the Palio) / la Pompei medievale (the medieval Pompeii)
The most extreme are the spring tides known as the acqua alta (Italian for "high water"), which regularly flood much of Venice. The nearby Marano-Grado Lagoon, with a surface area of around 160 square kilometres (62 square miles), is the northernmost lagoon in the Adriatic Sea and is sometimes called the "twin sister of the Venice lagoon".
La Serenissima, a 1981 album by Rondò Veneziano, also released as Venice in Peril "La Serenissima", a single by Rondò Veneziano, later covered by DNA and by Mike Candys "La Serenissima", an instrumental track from Loreena McKennitt's release, The Book of Secrets (1997)
People rave about the gondola rides in Venice, but it paled in comparison to another water-based activity from our trip Jamie Davis Smith December 31, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Venetians have long enjoyed this secret summer haven called Bacan, a small stretch of sand that appears between Sant’Erasmo and Punta Sabbioni, boasting a fresh ecosystem of flowers and rushes ...
See photos of Venice: But 2016 looks like it will be off to a dry start in Venice. A local newspaper says a combination of abnormal tides and a dry season have resulted in the low water levels.