venice facts Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/venice-facts Mon, 05 Dec 2016 22:39:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 VENICE VENEZIA http://toursmaps.com/venice-venezia.html http://toursmaps.com/venice-venezia.html#respond Sun, 11 Dec 2016 12:51:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=226932 VENICE (VENEZIA) There is a mystical quality to Venice’s (pop. 265,000) decadence. Her lavish palaces stand proudly on a steadily sinking network of wood, treading in the clouded waters of age-old canals lapping at the feet of her abandoned front doors. Venice’s labyrinthine streets lead to a treasury of Renaissance art, housed in scores of palaces, churches, and museums that are themselves architectural delights. But the same streets that once earned the name La Serenissima (Most Serene) are now saturated with visitors, as Venice grapples with an economy reliant on the same tourism that forces more and more of the

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