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  • [[Image:Leguna Veneta.png|thumb|right|250px|Lido and the Venetian Lagoon.]] ...houses hotels, expensive shops, and tourist-centric restaurants. At the [[Venetian Lagoon|lagoon]] end of the Gran Viale, you find the boats that take you to
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  • '''Sant'Erasmo''' is an [[island]] in the [[Venetian Lagoon]] lying north of the [[Lido]] and north east of [[Venice]].
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  • ...word is mostly used as "goodbye" in English, but in modern Italian, modern Venetian and in other languages it may mean "hello", "goodbye", or both. The word derives from the Venetian phrase ''s-ciào vostro'' or ''s-ciào su'' literally meaning "I am your sl
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  • '''Murano''' is usually described as an [[island]] in the [[Venetian Lagoon]], although like [[Venice]] itself it is actually an [[archipelago]] [[Image:Leguna Veneta.png|thumb|left|250px|Murano and the Venetian Lagoon.]]
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  • ...thout losing flavor. The use of ash as a cheese rind is a tradition in the Venetian region. The ash is also used to convey subtle flavors into the cheese, with
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  • * [[Venetian language|Venetian]]
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  • [[image:Venetian_Arsenal.jpg|thumb|right|275px|The ''Porta Magna'' at the Venetian Arsenal]] ...enezia''') is a [[shipyard]] and naval depot that played a leading role in Venetian empire-building. It was one of the most important areas of [[Venice]], lyi
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  • ...and the [[Palazzo Giustinian]]. This elegant linear style favoured by the Venetian architects was not totally superseded by the flourishes of [[baroque]] unti The Venetian Gothic style is [[Byzantine architecture|Byzantine]] in appearance. On the
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  • ...reads made from leavened dough. And it was at [[Verona, Italy|Verona]], in Venetian territory, that the formula for making pandoro was developed and perfected,
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  • .... Originally, sweet [[Cyprus]] wine was used but with the retreat of the [[Venetian Republic]], Marsala wine began to be used instead. Another change in the re
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  • '''Torcello''' is a quiet [[island]] at the northern end of the [[Venetian Lagoon]]. It was settled and named in the [[seventh century]] by people fr
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  • * '''''Venetian''''' group (included as Gallo-Italian according to Ethnologue) ** [[Venetian Language|Venetian]] proper
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  • The '''Giudecca''' is an [[island]] in the [[Venetian Lagoon]] lying immediately south of the central islands, from which it is s
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  • ...centre of Venice. It was the location of all the important offices of the Venetian state, and has been the seat of the [[bishopric]] since the [[nineteenth ce ...f Archaeology]] are located in some of the buildings of the Square. The [[Venetian Mint]] lies beyond the Biblioteca Marciana on the ''riva'' or bank of the G
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  • '''Burano''' is an [[island]] in the [[Venetian Lagoon]], although like [[Venice]] itself it could more correctly be called
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  • ...ers coming mainly from [[Friuli]] and [[Veneto]], who formed the so-called Venetian-Pontine community (today surviving only in some peripherical boroughs). The ...6. With the arrival of other people mostly from Lazio itself, the original Venetian-like dialect was increasingly substituted by a form of Romanesco dialect.
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  • ...t part of the inhabitants speaks their own national language; so we have [[Venetian language]] widely spoken in Veneto and on the coast to [[Trieste]] and Istr ...the border with [[Slovenia]] and in the city of Trieste); while after 1947 Venetian/[[Italian people]] are just a minority in Slovene and [[Croatia]]n Istria.
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  • ...dassarre Longhena]] the greatest exponent of what was later to be known as Venetian [[Baroque]], a style slowly replacing the more floral gothic style of such ...n status in the mid-17th century following a war with [[Turkey]], when the Venetian state coffers were depleted. Hence the mere rich, as opposed to the wealthy
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  • ...rary building in the [[Doge’s Palace]], constructed in [[828]], when Venetian merchants acquired the supposed relics of [[Mark the Evangelist|Saint Mark ...h century|fourteenth]], all contributed to its adornment, and seldom did a Venetian vessel return from the Orient without bringing a [[column]], [[capital]]s,
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