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27 unusual facts about Venice


Algonac, Michigan

Many canals wind their way throughout the city, which has given Algonac its nickname of "The Venice of Michigan."

Andrija Zmajević

His only published work, the song "Od pakla" ("Hell") saw the light of day in Venice in 1727.

Crime in Italy

Cities such as Turin, Milan, Monza Brescia, Padua, Vicenza, Venice( Mestre ), Verona, Bologna, Genoa in the North frequently suffer a wide diversity of frequent offences ranging from extensive drug trade, homicides, etc.

Enzo Serafin

Enzo Serafin (1912, Venice, Italy - 1995) was an Italian cinematographer, who cooperated with Michelangelo Antonioni (Cronaca di un amore (1950), La signora senza camelie (1953), I vinti (1953)), Roberto Rossellini (Viaggio in Italia (1954)), Ricardo Gascón, Ignacio F. Iquino, Luigi Zampa, Gianni Franciolini, Alfredo Guarini and others.

Gallerie dell'Accademia

The two institutions remained in the same building until 2004, when the art school moved to the Ospedale degli Incurabili.

The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy.

Giacomo Monico

During his tenure as head of the diocese of Venice he was a strong supporter of the rule of the house of Habsburg, and after the defeat of the Republic of San Marco he presided over a solemn Te Deum in the Basilica of San Marco.

Giada Valenti

Giada Valenti is an Italian singer, born in Portogruaro, Venice.

Giovanni Sante Gaspero Santini

In 1813 the university offered him the chair of astronomy, a position in which he was confirmed by the Emperor Francis I in 1818 after the Venetian territory had become part of Austria.

Głogówko, Greater Poland Voivodeship

The basilica of Holy Mountain monastery in Głogówko was modelled after the Basilica Santa Maria della Salute in Venice and constructed by polonized Italians Jerzy Catenazzi, Jan Catenazzi and Pompeo Ferrari between 1675-1728 according to original design by Baldassarre Longhena.

House of Gučetić

A branch of the family settled in Venice in the 17th century, where they changed their name from Gučetić to "Gozzi".

Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof

The station is important for commuter traffic to and from the Tyrolean provincial capital, and in providing a hub function for east-west traffic ((Budapest) – ViennaSalzburgWörgl – Innsbruck (Zürich) / Bregenz) and north-south traffic (Munich – Wörgl – Innsbruck – BolzanoVerona – (Milan / Venice / Rome )).

Istrian stone

Istrian stone, pietra d'Istria, the characteristic group of building stones in the architecture of Venice and Dalmatia, is a dense type of impermeable limestones that was quarried in Istria, between Portorož and Pula.

John and Paul

The basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Rome is dedicated to them, as well as the Basilica di San Zanipolo in Venice ("Zanipolo" being Venetian for "John and Paul").

Music of Crete

Following the Crusades, however, the Franks, Venetians and Genoese dominated the island and introduced new instruments and styles of music.

Palekastro

This hill gave Palekastro its name in the Middle Ages when the region was dominated by the sovereign power of Venice.

Piero Giunni

Giunni worked as a decorator and studied at the academies in Milan and Venice before the outbreak of World War II.

Pont-Farcy

One of the village's most famous residents is the Russian-born artist Timur D'Vatz, who is currently exhibiting in London, Venice, New York and Paris.

Salah Taher

Overall, he painted 15000 paintings and held more than 80 art fairs for his work in Egypt, Venice, New York, San Francisco, Geneva, Beirut, Kuwait and Jeddah.

Samuel Rawson Gardiner

Of his original sources, many exist only in manuscript, and his researches in public and private collections of manuscripts at home, and in the archives of Simancas, Venice, Rome, Brussels and Paris, were tireless and productive.

Sarah Applewood

She recently sang in Venice at The Hilton for Incognito Artists and spent the summer 2010 singing in Athens.

The Large Etymological Dictionary

Described as one of the most important Byzantine Dictionaries, it was released by Nikolaos Vlastos, owner of the first Greek press in Venice.

The Sandman: Endless Nights

It is split between two views: the lives of a group on an island off the coast of Venice protected by magic from Death versus the memories and thoughts of a young American (the conclusion suggests he is a special forces soldier) who has never forgotten his childhood encounter with her.

Theodore of Amasea

The new church of St Mark was built between the old chapel of St Theodore and the Ducal Palace.

Tommaso Diplovataccio

In 1517, Diplovataccio moved to Venice, where, as a publisher of note, he edited De regulis iuris of Dinus, the Commentaria of de Tartagnis and the works of Bartolus, among others.

Venice/Venice

Venice/Venice is an American film starring Henry Jaglom, Nelly Alard, Melissa Leo, Suzanne Bertish, Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny, John Landis and written and directed by Henry Jaglom.

Vittoria Accoramboni

On the death of Pope Gregory XIII, Cardinal Montalto, her first husband's uncle, was elected in his place as Sixtus V (1585); he vowed vengeance on the duke of Bracciano and Vittoria, who, warned in time, fled first to Venice and thence to Salò in Venetian territory.


A Place for Lovers

It stars Faye Dunaway as a terminally ill American fashion designer in Venice, Italy who has a whirlwind affair with a race car driver (played by Marcello Mastroianni).

Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel

Antonio Priuli's election began a brutal process of ferreting out individuals suspected of plotting against Venice.

Alfredo Jaar

His work has been shown extensively around the world, notably in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007), São Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010), Istanbul (1995), Kwangju (1995, 2000), Johannesburg (1997), and Seville (2006).

Bertuccio

Bertuccio Valiero (Venice, July 1, 1596 - Venice, March 29, 1658), 102nd Doge of Venice

Ca' Vendramin Calergi

In 1581, the Loredan family suffered financial difficulties and sold it for 50,000 ducats to Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who had deep affection for Venice.

Davide Antonio Fossati

In 1728 he painted the dining-hall in the monastery of St. Martinsberg at Pressburg; but in 1730 he returned to Venice, and in the next year executed the wall-paintings in the villa at Torre, near Este, as also in the nunnery of Santa Margaretta, near Lauis.

Dennis Embleton

They journeyed to Paris, Strasbourg, Baden, Switzerland, over the Simplon Pass, Milan, Genoa, Rome, Bologna, Pisa, Florence, Venice, Trieste, Vienna, The Tyrol and back to Paris, All the time, in addition to seeing the sights, they visited numerous medical establishments, and at Pisa they petitioned the university, sat the examination for doctorate of medicine, passed and were granted diplomas on 14 September 1836

Do I Hear a Waltz?

There she meets Americans Eddie and Jennifer Yeager, who are living in Rome and have come to Venice for a vacation, and the McIlhennys, an older couple on a package tour.

Domini di Terraferma

In 1420 Venice annexed the Friulian territories of the Imperial Patriarchate of Aquileia from the Adriatic coast up to Pontebba in the Julian Alps.

Don the Beachcomber

He was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star while setting up rest camps for combat-weary airmen of the 12th and 15th Air Forces in Capri, Nice, Cannes, the French Riviera, Venice, the Lido and Sorrento at the order of his friend, Lieutenant General Jimmy Doolittle.

Dušan Žanko

During his time as intendant, he led Zagreb's opera company on performances in Venice, Florence and Rome in April 1942 and to Vienne in 1943.

Elaine Thornburgh

As President of Humanities West, she has presented programs on 18th-century Venice, Rembrandt's Amsterdam, Thomas Jefferson, Mozart, Handel's London, and Versailles.

Federico Agostini

Among Agostini’s Philips recordings there are Bach and Vivaldi’s violin concertos, including the Four Seasons, which was filmed on location in Venice and available also on DVD.

Flora Perini

Over the next several years she appeared in operas in Nice, Venice, Triest, Turin, Bologna, Madrid, Barcelona, Saint Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.

Giovanni Antonio Fumiani

Born in Venice in 1645, he trained in Bologna under Domenico degli Ambrogi, a specialist in quadratura, but by 1668 he was back in Venice, where he painted a Virgin and Saints in San Benedetto.

Giovanni Rovetta

Giovanni Rovetta (1596–1668) was an Italian Baroque composer and maestro di capella of the Capella Marciana at St Mark's Basilica, Venice between Monteverdi and Cavalli.

Giovanni Serodine

His style has the loose brushstroke and luminosity of some of the northern Caravaggisti, such as Lys, Strozzi, and Fetti, who were active in Venice; however, some of Serodine's canvases show a provincial eccentricity, for example Coronation of the Virgin in Ascona.

Giuseppe Sartori

He painted a few historical subjects: La galera d'Oufrè Giustinian announces to Venice the Victory at Lepanto.

Gondola

Even though the Gondola by now has become a widely publicized icon of Venice, in the times of the Republic of Venice it was by far not the only means of transportation: on the map of Venice created by Jacopo de' Barbari in 1500 only a fraction of the boats are gondolas, the majority of boats are batellas, caorlinas, galleys and other boats - by now only a handful of batellas survive, and caorlinas are used for racing only.

Gracia Mendes Nasi

Once in Antwerp, Dona Gracia and her staff gave them instructions and the money to travel by cart and foot over the Alps to the great port city of Venice, where arrangements were made to transport them by ship to the Ottoman Empire Greece and Turkey in the East.

House of Gradić

Bazilije Gradić, bishop in Ston, author of the religious book from 16th century (from 1567), Libarze od dievstva i dievickoga bitya v komse tomace sua kolika poglauita miesta staroga i nouoga sakona, koia od dieustua gouore i ono scto sueti naucitegli u mnosieh librieh pisciu ; Libarze velle duhovno i bogogliubno od molitve i contemplanya, sniekiem napomenam duhouniem, oniem ki xele duhouno xiuieti, uelle potrebno i korisno (printed in Venice; second edition in Rome in 1584)

Ignazio Gardella

In the same years he was a leader of important cultural events, like CIAM (in '52 he founded, with others, the summer session in Venice; in '59 he participated in CIAM X in Otterlo in Holland), or the first INU conferences (starting in 1949).

International Association of Wagner Societies

Wagner societies can be found in all parts of the world, including Venice, Great Britain, Shanghai, Tokyo, Lisbon, Melbourne, Adelaide, Ankara, New York, Toronto, Cape Town, Bangkok, New Zealand and Puerto Rico.

Le Temps d'un film

From Tom Waits to Cheikh Lô… and from Venice to Paris to Saint Louis in Senegal, this documentary travels the rivers’ stream in search of the Unshod Man.

Lodewijk Toeput

According to Karel van Mander, who listed him as one of two painters from Northern Europe whom he met in Venice, he was a good poet (rederijker) as well as a painter; van Mander thought he came from Mechelen.

Lombard League

Formed at Pontida on 1 December 1167, the Lombard League included—beside Verona, Padua, Vicenza and Venice—cities like Crema, Cremona, Mantua, Piacenza, Bergamo, Brescia, Milan, Genoa, Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Treviso, Vercelli, Lodi, Parma and even some lords, such as the Marquis Malaspina and Ezzelino da Romano.

Matt Perrins

In 2009, Perrins won the PokerStars.com Italian Poker Tour Venice, collecting €851,660 in the process against a field of 438 contestants that included Johnny Lodden, Dario Minieri, and Vanessa Rousso.

Mel Chin

Mel Chin has also exhibited in numerous group shows including the Fifth Biennial of Havana, Cuba; Seventh Architectural Biennial in Venice, Italy; Kwangju Biennale, Korea; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art; P.S.1

Muğla Province

The province also became a significant naval power, trading with the Aegean Islands, Crete and as far as Venice and Egypt.

Noè Bordignon

Noè Bordignon (Salvarosa near Castelfranco Veneto, September 3, 1841 – San Zenone degli Ezzelini, December 7, 1920) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Venice.

Périgueux

Félix de Verneihl claims that St Front's was a copy of St Mark's Basilica in Venice; Quicherat, that it was copied from the church of the Holy Apostles of Constantinople.

Pietro Alcionio

After having studied Greek in Venice under Marcus Musurus of Candia, he was employed for some time as a proofreader by the printer Aldus Manutius.

Poeticon astronomicon

The Poeticon astronomicon was not formally published until 1482, by Erhard Ratdolt in Venice, Italy.

Railjet

Operations on the routes Vienna to Graz, Ljubljana and/or Zagreb, and from Vienna to Villach and Venice and for an increased service between Vienna and Bregenz/Zurich via Salzburg and Innsbruck were also planned from the end of 2010 onwards.

Rogier van der Heide

Van der Heide joined the Arup practice in 2004, and subsequently worked on projects including Star Place in Taiwan and Galleria West in South Korea, both in collaboration with Ben van Berkel and the 2004 Architecture Biennale show in Venice in collaboration with Hani Rashid of Asymptote.

Rudolf Alfred Höger

He also painted contemporary scenes at the turn of the 19/20th century; such as Beim Heurigen in Grinzing (At the Heuriger in Grinzing), Markttag (A day at the market), Gaudeamus Igitur and Obstmarkt in Venedig (Fruit market in Venice).

San Martino, Venice

San Martino di Venezia is a church in the sestiere of Castello of Venice.

Tan Kheng Hua

Drama: Aquafire Productions: Cages directed by Graham Streeter (lead, Pusan Film Festival 2006, Prague Film Festival 2006, Bangladesh Film Festival 2007, distributed by Golden Village in Singapore and Hallmark for Asia Pacific Region), Final Cut (lead, Singapore Int'l Film Festival 1993, Asia Pacific Film & Video Festival in LA 1993, broadcast over HBO and Arts Central Singapore); Zhao Wei Films: Mee Pok Man, 12 Stories (screened at film festivals in Singapore, Moscow, England and Venice, 1994)

Teatro Malibran

It became the biggest, most luxurious and extravagant stage in Venice, known for its sumptuous productions and high quality singers such as Margherita Durastanti, prima donna between 1709 and 1712.

Teri Polo

In 2006, while on the set of a video, Polo met drummer Jamie Wollam (of the bands Avion, Venice and recently Drake Bell).

Themes in Italian Renaissance painting

Giovanni Bellini's portrait of the elected Duke of Venice has an official air and could hardly be more formal.

Valdrada of Sicily

Valdrada of Sicily, was a Sicilian Princess and the Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Jacopo Tiepolo (r. 1229-1249).

William Bedell

In 1607 he was appointed chaplain to Sir Henry Wotton, then English ambassador at Venice, where he remained for four years, acquiring a great reputation as a scholar, theologian, printer, and Missionary to the faithfull leaving under Roman Catholic tyranny of the Inquisition.

William Fairbanks

He was then living at 115 Dudley Avenue in Venice, where he registered for the draft of World War I.

WLTQ

WLTQ-FM, a radio station (92.1 FM) licensed to Venice, Florida, United States