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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 following is a list of all 120 of the Doges of Venice ordered by the dates of their reigns. For more than 1,000 years, the chief magistrate and leader of the city of Venice and later of the Most Serene Republic of Venice was styled the Doge , a rare but not unique Italian title derived from the Latin Dux .
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Dogaressa (/ ˌ d oʊ ɡ ə ˈ r ɛ s ə, ˌ d oʊ dʒ ə ˈ-/ DOH-gə-ress-ə, DOH-jə-, Italian: [doɡaˈressa], Venetian: [doɡaˈɾesa]) was the official title of the wife of the Doge of Venice. The title was unique for Venice: while the heads of the Republic of Genoa were also called Doge, the wives of the Doges of Genoa were not called ...
This is a list of nickname-related list articles on Wikipedia. A nickname is "a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name." [ 1 ] A nickname is often considered desirable, symbolising a form of acceptance, but can sometimes be a form of ridicule.
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Venice of Cieszyn, part of the Old Town of Cieszyn, Poland; Venice of Portugal, nickname for Aveiro, Portugal; Venice of the East, a list of places with this nickname; Venice of the North, a list of places with this nickname; Venice of the Orient, nickname for Shanghai, China "Venice of the Pacific", nickname for the ruins of Nan Madol at Pohnpei