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The Lido, or Venice Lido (Italian: Lido di Venezia), is an 11-kilometre-long (7-mile) barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon, Northern Italy; it is home to about 20,400 residents. The Venice Film Festival takes place at the Lido in late August/early September. [1] Lido Island seen from the campanile of the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore.
The Venetian Lagoon (Italian: Laguna di Venezia; Venetian: Ĺaguna de Venesia) is an enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated. Its name in the Italian and Venetian languages , Laguna Veneta (cognate of Latin lacus ' lake ' ), has provided the English name for an enclosed, shallow embayment of ...
Venice has unveiled the full lineup of its immersive section, which is held every year in the lush island of Lazzaretto Vecchio, a short boat ride from the Lido. Launched in 2017 as Venice VR, the ...
Module:Location map/data/Italy Venetian Lagoon is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Venetian Lagoon. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
This ceremony is recreated annually with the Mayor of Venice taking on the traditional role, which was historically executed by the Doge, by throwing a ring into the lagoon to symbolize Venice's marriage to the sea. The ceremony is preceded by a parade of boats and afterwards the festival contains a boat race that starts the local racing season ...
Yet in 2020, Venice introduced Mose, a flood barrier system placed at various inlets of the Venice lagoon, helping the city and its islands from high tides and mass flooding that the area has ...
Together with other measures, such as coastal reinforcement, elevating of quaysides, and paving and improvement of the lagoon, MOSE is designed to protect Venice and the lagoon from tides of up to 3 metres (9.8 ft). As of 2023, the floodgates are raised for tides forecast to be more than 1.30 metres (4 ft 3 in).