Venice

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Venice is a historic Italian city built on a network of canals in a lagoon of the Adriatic Sea, renowned for its unique architecture, art, and maritime heritage.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf city
commune of Italy
port city
tourist destination
capitalOf Veneto
climate humid subtropical climate
coordinateLatitude 45.4375
coordinateLongitude 12.3358
country Italy
demonym Venetian
elevationAboveSeaLevel 1 meter
foundedIn 5th century
governedBy Venice self-linksurface differs
surface form: Comune di Venezia
hasAirport Venice Marco Polo Airport
hasIsland Burano
Lido di Venezia
Murano
Torcello
hasLandmark Bridge of Sighs
Doge's Palace
La Fenice Theatre
Rialto Bridge
St Mark's Basilica
St Mark's Square
hasMayor Luigi Brugnaro
hasPopulation approximately 250000
hasProject MOSE flood barrier system
hasRailwayStation Venezia Santa Lucia railway station
hasUniversity Ca' Foscari University of Venice
IUAV University of Venice
hasWaterway Giudecca Canal
Grand Canal
heritageDesignation UNESCO World Heritage Site
heritageDesignationDate 1987
historicalRole capital of the Republic of Venice
major maritime power
hostsEvent Venice Biennale
Venice Film Festival
knownFor Carnival
surface form: Carnival of Venice

Renaissance art
Venetian glass
Venetian masks
canals
historic architecture
maritime heritage
locatedIn Venetian Lagoon
Veneto
Northern Italy
surface form: northern Italy
locatedOn Adriatic Sea
officialLanguage Italian
patronSaint Mark the Evangelist
surface form: Saint Mark the Evangelist
religion Roman Catholicism
risk flooding
timeZone Central European Summer Time
Central European Time
transportMode gondola
vaporetto

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Top Hat settingLocation Venice
Midas Run settingLocation Venice
Midas Run filmingLocation Venice
Roderigo (character) residence Venice
subject surface form: Roderigo
Albrecht Dürer visited Venice
St Mark's Campanile city Venice
Giuseppe Volpi residence Venice
The Italian Job filmingLocation Venice
subject surface form: The Italian Job (2003 film)
Italkim historicalCenter Venice
John Mark patronage Venice
Titian placeOfDeath Venice
Titian workLocation Venice
Desdemona (character) placeOfOrigin Venice
subject surface form: Desdemona
Venice Beach hasNameOrigin Venice
this entity surface form: Venice, Italy
Il fuoco settingLocation Venice
Eleonora Duse residence Venice
Lombardy–Venetia capital Venice
Walter Sickert livedIn Venice
Abbot Kinney inspiredBy Venice
this entity surface form: Venice, Italy
Northeastern Italy hasUNESCOSite Venice
this entity surface form: Venice and its Lagoon
Marco Polo placeOfBirth Venice
Marco Polo placeOfDeath Venice
Marco Polo burialPlace Venice
this entity surface form: San Lorenzo, Venice
Philippe Starck residence Venice
Lido (Venice beach area) partOf Venice
this entity surface form: Comune of Venice
Lido (Venice beach area) adjacentTo Venice
this entity surface form: Venice historic center
Antonio Canova deathPlace Venice
Giuria dei Letterati basedIn Venice
this entity surface form: Venezia
Do I Hear a Waltz? setting Venice
Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte placeOfBirth Venice
subject surface form: Francesco Maria del Monte
Vitruvian Man locatedIn Venice