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The Venetian was designed by Stubbins Associates and Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo. The resort is themed after Venice and has replicas of numerous landmarks from the city, including a canal with gondola rides. The Venetian includes a 120,000 sq ft (11,000 m 2) casino and opened with 3,036 suites in a 35-story tower. A 12-story tower, the Venezia ...
Distribution of Romance languages in Europe. Venetian is number 15. Venetian, [7] [8] wider Venetian or Venetan [9] [10] ( łengua vèneta [ˈeŋɡwa ˈvɛneta] or vèneto [ˈvɛneto]) is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, [11] mostly in Veneto, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it.
Venetian painting. Titian, Salome with the Head of John the Baptist c. 1515; this religious work also functions as an idealized portrait of a beauty, a Venetian genre developed by Titian, supposedly often using Venetian courtesans as models. Venetian painting was a major force in Italian Renaissance painting and beyond.
The governmental structure of the Venetian Republic. The Great Council or Major Council ( Italian: Maggior Consiglio; Venetian: Mazor Consegio) was a political organ of the Republic of Venice between 1172 and 1797. It was the chief political assembly, responsible for electing many of the other political offices and the senior councils that ran ...
History of the Republic of Venice. The Republic of Venice in AD 1000. The republican territory is dark red, the borders in light red. The Republic of Venice ( Venetian: Repùbrega Vèneta; Italian: Repubblica di Venezia) was a sovereign state and maritime republic in Northeast Italy, which existed for a millennium between the 8th century and 1797.
The main coins minted during the Republic of Venice include: silver ducato (or Matapan), minted for the first time between 1193 and 1202; it was one of the first grossi. soldo, in silver, minted during the reign of doge Francesco Dandolo (1328–1339) and doge Giovanni Gradenigo (1355-1356). lira (including lira Tron ), minted from 1472.
Stato da Màr. The Stato da Màr or Domini da Mar ( lit. 'State of the Sea' or 'Domains of the Sea') was the Republic of Venice 's maritime and overseas possessions from around 1000 to 1797, including at various times parts of what are now Istria, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece and notably the Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, Crete, Cyclades ...
The Doge on the Bucintoro near the Riva di Sant'Elena (c. 1766–70) by Francesco Guardi. The Venetian navy ( Venetian: Armada) was the navy of the Venetian Republic which played an important role in the history of the republic and the Mediterranean world. It was the premier navy in the Mediterranean Sea for many centuries between the medieval ...