Venice, the capital of the Veneto region, lies on more than 100 small islands within a lagoon in the Adriatic sea. In this city there are no roads but canals, including the Grand Canal, flanked by Renaissance and Gothic palaces. On the central square, Piazza San Marco, there are the Basilica of San Marco, enriched by Byzantine mosaics, and the bell tower of San Marco, from which you can admire the red roofs of the city.

Piazza San Marco, located in Venice, is one of the most important Italian monumental squares, renowned worldwide for its beauty and architectural integrity. It is the only urban space in Venice that properly takes the name of a square, as all the other spaces in the form of a square are properly defined fields. Its main body has a trapezoidal shape and is 170 meters long: other areas are grafted onto it. It is also known as "the Piazza" or "the drawing room of Europe".

The Doge's Palace, formerly also Doge's Palace as the seat of the Doge, one of the symbols of the city of Venice and a masterpiece of Venetian Gothic, is a building that stands in the monumental area of ​​Piazza San Marco, in the San Marco district, between the homonymous square and the pier of Palazzo Ducale, adjacent to the basilica of San Marco. Distinguished by a style which, drawing inspiration from Byzantine and Eastern architecture, well exemplifies the intensity of commercial and cultural relations between the Serenissima and other European states, its beauty is based on an astute aesthetic and physical paradox, connected to the fact that the heavy bulk of the main body is supported by apparently slender inlaid colonnades. The interiors, today partly deprived of the works that once decorated them, still retain a large art gallery, which includes works created by the most famous Venetian masters, including Jacopo and Domenico Tintoretto, Tiziano Vecellio, Francesco Bassano, Paolo Veronese, Giambattista Zelotti, Jacopo Palma the Younger, Andrea Vicentino and Antonio Vassilacchi.

The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of San Marco, more famously called Basilica di San Marco in Venice, is the cathedral church and seat of the patriarchate of Venice. Together with the bell tower and the square of San Marco, it forms the main architectural site in Venice. It is one of the symbols of Venetian art and Christianity. Already in the 11th century, the Basilica of San Marco began to be widely nicknamed the Golden Church, by virtue of the treasure of San Marco, the ornate mosaics and the majestic design elements, which made the sacred building the visible symbol of power and wealth acquired by the Serenissima. Until the fall of the Republic of Venice, it was the palatine church of the Doge's Palace, ruled by the prelate of the Doge at territorial prelature. It assumed the cathedral title from 1807, when it was moved here from the ancient cathedral of San Pietro di Castello, which remained the official seat.

The Rialto bridge is one of the four bridges, together with the Accademia bridge, the Scalzi bridge and the Constitution bridge, which cross the Grand Canal in the city of Venice. Of the four, the Rialto bridge is the oldest and certainly the most famous.

The bridge of sighs is one of the most famous bridges in Venice.

The Gran Teatro La Fenice, located in the San Marco district in Campo San Fantin, is today the main opera house in Venice, as well as one of the most prestigious in the world. Every year it holds the traditional New Year's Concert. Twice destroyed and rebuilt, it has been the site of important opera, symphonic seasons and the International Festival of Contemporary Music. In the nineteenth century, the theater was the site of numerous world premieres of works by Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti and Giuseppe Verdi. The attention to contemporary production was also great in the twentieth century, with world premieres by Igor Stravinskij, Benjamin Britten, Sergej Prokofiev, Luigi Nono, Bruno Maderna, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel, Adriano Guarnieri, Luca Mosca and Claudio Ambrosini.

Santa Maria della Salute is a basilica in Venice erected in the Punta della Dogana area, from where it stands out in the panorama of the San Marco Basin and the Grand Canal. Designed by Baldassare Longhena with attention to Palladio models, it is one of the best expressions of Venetian Baroque architecture. Its construction represents an ex voto to the Madonna by the Venetians for the liberation from the plague which between 1630 and 1631 decimated the population, as had previously happened for the church of the Redeemer. The cult became so rooted in Venice that the Virgin Mary was added to the list of patron saints of the city of Venice. In December 1921 Pope Benedict XV elevated it to the rank of minor basilica.

Venice is a city of 259 414 inhabitants, whose historical center (limited to the sestieri of the lagoon city) has 53 976, the capital of the metropolitan city of the same name and of the Veneto region. The first municipality in the region by population, eleventh in Italy and first in Veneto by surface, it includes both island and mainland territories and is articulated around the two main centers of Venice (in the center of the lagoon of the same name) and Mestre (in the mainland). The functional urban area (FUA) has 559,983 inhabitants.

The city has been the capital of the Serenissima Republic of Venice for 1100 years and is known in this regard as the Serenissima, the Dominant and the Queen of the Adriatic: for the urban peculiarities and for its artistic heritage, it is universally considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world, declared, together with its lagoon, a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, which has contributed to making it the second Italian city (after Rome) with the highest tourist flow, largely from abroad.