![]() It was a major financial and maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as an important centre of commerce-especially silk, grain, and spice, and of art from the 13th century to the end of the 17th. The city was historically the capital of the Republic of Venice for almost a millennium, from 810 to 1797. The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century BC. ![]() Together with the cities of Padua and Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the Comune di Venezia, of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice ( centro storico) and the rest on the mainland ( terraferma). The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta and the Sile). It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals portions of the city are linked by over 400 bridges. ![]() Venice ( / ˈ v ɛ n ɪ s/ VEH-niss Italian: Venezia ( listen) Venetian: Venesia or Venexia ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. ![]() This is a stopgap mapping solution, while attempts are made to resolve technical difficulties with ![]()
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