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Printable version; Page information; ... Map of the municipality (comune) of Chioggia (province of Venice, region Veneto, Italy) Date: 11 May 2011: Source: Own work:
The Venetian Lagoon The island of Torcello seen from the Lagoon at low tide. The Venetian Lagoon stretches from the River Sile in the north to the Brenta in the south, with a surface area of around 550 square kilometres (212 square miles). It is around 8% land, including Venice itself and many smaller islands.
File:Lagoon-of-venice-landsat-1.jpg overlaid with File:Italy location map.svg, with position box added Author NASA for the image, user:NordNordWest for the map
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 ...
In the Middle Ages, Chioggia proper was known as Clugia major, whereas Clugia minor was a sand bar about 600 m further into the Adriatic. A free commune and an episcopal see from 1110, it had later an important role in the so-called War of Chioggia between Genoa and Venice, being conquered by Genoa in 1378 and finally by Venice in June 1380 ...
Name used in the default map caption; image = Venetian lagoon locator map.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 45.584 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 45.139 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 12.062 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = 12.667 ...
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.
Sottomarina is separated form Pellestrina by the Chioggia inlet. The lagoon side of its coast is by the islands which form the town of Chioggia and on the eastern side of the Val di Brenta, southernmost basin of the lagoon. It southern end is cut through by the mouth of the River Brenta. The peninsula is narrow at the northern end as it widens ...