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2. The Venetian Las Vegas - Wikipedia

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   The Venetian was designed by Stubbins Associates and Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo. The resort is themed after Venice and has replicas of numerous landmarks from the city, including a canal with gondola rides. The Venetian includes a 120,000 sq ft (11,000 m 2) casino and opened with 3,036 suites in a 35-story tower. A 12-story tower, the Venezia ...

3. Venetian Lagoon - Wikipedia

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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 ...

4. Venice - Wikipedia

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   Venice [3] ( Italian: Venezia, Italian: [veˈnɛttsja] ⓘ) [note 1] is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 126 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 472 bridges. [4] The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an ...

5. Venetian cuisine - Wikipedia

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   Among the typical seasoning of Venetian cuisine, you can find butter, olive oil, sunflower oil, vinegar, kren, senape, mostarda, salsa verde . The following are dishes typical of the three subregions of the Veneto. The page for Venetian language provides additional information on writing and pronouncing the dishes' names.

6. Carnival of Venice - Wikipedia

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   Up to 3 million. The Carnival of Venice ( Italian: Carnevale di Venezia) is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy, famous throughout the world for its elaborate costumes and masks. The Carnival ends on Shrove Tuesday ( Martedì Grasso or Mardi Gras ), which is the day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday .

7. Republic of Venice - Wikipedia

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   The Republic of Venice ( Italian: Repubblica di Venezia; Venetian: Repùblega de Venèsia) or Venetian Republic, [a] traditionally known as La Serenissima, [b] was a sovereign state and maritime republic in parts of the present-day Italian Republic that existed for 1,100 years from 697 until 1797. [2]