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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 ...
Torcello (Latin: Torcellum; Venetian: Torceło) is a sparsely populated [1] island at the northern end of the Venetian Lagoon, in north-eastern Italy. It was first settled in 452 AD [2] and has been referred to as the parent island from which Venice was populated. It was a town with a cathedral and bishops before St Mark's Basilica was built ...
The Lazzaretto Vecchio ("Old Lazaret"), formerly known as Santa Maria di Nazareth ("Holy Mary of Nazareth"), is an island of the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, located near the Lido of Venice. Between 1403 and 1630 it housed a hospital which cared for people during the plague epidemics and as a leper colony , giving rise to the English words ...
La Certosa (Italian: Isola della Certosa) is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It is located northeast of Venice, fewer than 250 metres (820 feet) from San Pietro di Castello and little more than 500 metres (1,640 feet) from the Venice Lido. A 20-metre-wide (66 ft) channel separates it from the Vignole island. La Certosa has a ...
Thanks to donations provided by wealthy Venetian families, the canons began work on the restoration of the church and enlargement of the monastery. In 1643, to fulfil a vow made during the plague epidemic that struck the city in 1630, Venetians funded the building of a new chapel, modelled on the Holy House of Loreto , inside the San Clemente ...
San Giorgio in Alga (English: "St. George in the seaweed" [1]) is an island of the Venetian lagoon, northern Italy, lying between the Giudecca and Fusina (a frazione of Venice on the coast, near Marghera).
The Island of San Michele (Italian: isola di San Michele, [ˈiːzola di sam miˈkɛːle]; Venetian: ìxoła de San Michièl) is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, Veneto, northern Italy. The island contains San Michele in Isola, a Roman Catholic church, as well as the San Michele Cemetary, Venice’s principal cemetery.
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