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The Venetian Lagoon (Italian: Laguna di Venezia; Venetian: Łaguna 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 ...
The depth of the channel form the Lido inlet was also increased to let large modern cruise ships through. These kinds of interventions have led to the displacement of sediments which are lost out of the lagoon and an increase in depth of the lagoon floor form and average of -0.75 m to one of -1.5 m since 1902. [1] [4]
As such, it is about 120 kilometers (75 mi) wide and has an average depth of 38 meters (125 ft). ... Venetian Lagoon; References. Citations
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.
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Islands of the Venetian Lagoon (2 C, 33 P) Pages in category "Venetian Lagoon" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Venetian Causeway. Toll: $2.25 SunPass, $3 toll by plate. Built: 1926, restored in 1995-99 and 2016, with repairs through the years. Route: 15th Street in Miami to 17th Street/Dade Boulevard in ...
Lagoon is derived from the Italian laguna, which refers to the waters around Venice, the Venetian Lagoon. Laguna is attested in English by at least 1612, and had been Anglicized to "lagune" by 1673. In 1697 William Dampier referred to a "Lagune or Lake of Salt water" on the coast of Mexico.