VENICE part 2

the next day, our main destination was venice . . . g naik bas. dari venice, naik bas di station venezia. lebih kurang sejam dari bandar mestre.bas akan tiba di Piazzale Roma. Piazzale Roma merupakan perhentian bas utama di venice dan terletak berhampiran dengan Grand Canal.

sampai2 jer, terus tangkap pic. me and cuzzie at Piazzale Roma.

inilah venice. bandaraya air

g venice, memang tak sah kalau tak naik gondola. ada macama2 design gondola kat sini. yang nie, yang gondola pertama yang kami jumpa. ada 3 route. route yang pertama, 15 minit. second route 30 minit. third route 1 jam. dah alang2 sampai ke venice, kitaorang decided ambik third route. third route nie akan masuk grand canal. 60 euro per gondola. satu gondola boleh muatkan 6 orang.

japan flag at venice? tiang warna warni tue gondola's parking space. :)



market

my fav pic

Venice (Italian: Venezia) is a city in northeast Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region. In 2009, there were 270,098 people residing in Venice's comune (the population estimate of 272,000 inhabitants includes the population of the whole Comune of Venezia; around 60,000^[1] in the historic city of Venice (Centro storico); 176,000 in Terraferma (the Mainland), mostly in the large frazioni of Mestre and Marghera; 31,000 live on other islands in the lagoon). Together with Padua and Treviso, the city is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE) (population 1,600,000).

The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century B.C.^[2][3] The city historically was the capital of the Venetian Republic. Venice 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 described it in The New York Times as "undoubtedly the most beautiful city built by man".^[4] Venice has also been described by the Times Online as being one of Europe's most romantic cities.^[5]

The city stretches across 117 small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater lagoon stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of the Po (south) and the Piave (north) Rivers.

The Republic of Venice was a major maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain, and spice) and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century. This made Venice a wealthy city throughout most of its history.^[6] It is also known for its several important artistic movements, especially the Renaissance period. Venice has played an important role in the history of symphonic and operatic music, and it is the birthplace of Antonio Vivaldi.

credited to wikipedia

see u at VENICE part 3 . . .