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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. The Venetian Macao - Wikipedia

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   The Venetian Macao (Chinese: 澳門威尼斯人), is a hotel and casino resort in Macau, China owned by the American Las Vegas Sands company. The 39-story [1] structure on Macau's Cotai Strip has 10,500,000-square-foot (980,000 m 2 ) of floor space, and is modeled on its sister casino resort The Venetian Las Vegas .

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 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 ...

6. Republic of Venice - Wikipedia

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   Venetian naval efforts in the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles in 1717 and 1718, however, met with little success. With the Treaty of Passarowitz (21 July 1718), Austria made large territorial gains, but Venice lost the Morea, for which its small gains in Albania and Dalmatia were little compensation. This was the last war with the Ottoman Empire.

7. Venetian Gothic architecture - Wikipedia

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   Mostly 14th century. Venetian Gothic is the particular form of Italian Gothic architecture typical of Venice, originating in local building requirements, with some influence from Byzantine architecture, and some from Islamic architecture, reflecting Venice's trading network. Very unusually for medieval architecture, the style is at its most ...