venice

• a city in northern Italy .
• known both for tourism and for industry .
• is the capital of the region Veneto 
• Together with Padua and Treviso, the city is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE) 

• The name is derived from the ancient people of Veneti that inhabited the region as of 10th century B.C.
• The city historically was the capital of the Venetian Republic. 
• has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Masks", "City of Bridges", "The Floating City", and "City of Canals". Luigi Barzini, writing in The New York Times, described it as "undoubtedly the most beautiful city built by man".
• also been described by the Times Online as being one of Europe's most romantic cities.

•  Venetian cuisine is characterized by seafood, but also includes garden products from the islands of the lagoon, rice from the mainland, game, and polenta.
• combines local traditions with influences that are distant from millennial business contacts.
• include sarde in saor, sardines marinated in order to preserve them for long voyages; risi e bisi, rice and peas; fegato alla veneziana, Venetian-style liver; risotto with cuttlefish, blackened from the ink; cicchetti, refined and delicious tidbits (akin to tapas); antipasti, appetizers; and prosecco, an effervescent, mildly sweet wine.

baicoli

• Venice is famous for bisàto (marinated eel), for the golden, oval-shaped cookies called baicoli, and for different types of sweets such as: pan del pescatore (bread of the fisherman); cookies with almonds and pistachio nuts; cookies with fried Venetian cream or the bussolai (butter biscuits and shortbread made in the shape of an "S" or ring) from the island of Burano; the crostoli also known as the chatter, lies, or galani; the fregolotta (a crumbly cake with almonds); milk pudding called rosada; and cookies of yellow semolina called zaléti.

crumble cake with almonds

 LANGUAGE

• Romance language spoken as native language by over two million people.

VENICE is most famous by it's frame work on the unique omate glass-work. which is known as the VENETIAN GLASS. its world renowed for being the colourful, elaborate and skillfully made...

important characteristics of these objects had been developed by the thirteenth century. Toward the end of that century, the center of the Venetian glass industry moved to Murano.

• Byzantine craftsmen : an important role in the development of Venetian glass, an art form for which the city is well-known.
• When Constantinople was sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, some fleeing artisans came to Venice.
• happened again when the Ottomans took Constantinople in 1453, supplying Venice with still more glassworkers.
• By sixteenth century, Venetian artisans had gained even greater control over the color and transparency of their glass, and had mastered a variety of decorative techniques.