Abstract
Venice is a physical improbability which lies on a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea about two and a half miles from the mainland. It is a compromise between land and water, about 37 miles long and 5 miles wide. The city is spread over 118 islands linked by 177 canals over which there are 400 bridges. The Grand Canal divides the city into two unequal parts, and the houses, about 15,000 in all, are for the most part, built on pilings, with their facades on a main canal and their doors on a side or back canal.
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© 1975 Elaine Brody and Claire Brook
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Brody, E., Brook, C. (1975). Venice (Veneto). In: The Music Guide to Italy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05291-2_7
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