The Italian city of Venice
The city of Venice in Italy. It is one of the most famous cities in the world and the most unusual and out of the ordinary. Venice has about 120 island in the Adriatic Sea and its channels instead of the streets. It uses the city's population boats instead of cars, buses, taxis and trucks. It also includes the city of Venice from the main part of the Italian mainland. With a population of 309,422 inhabitants.
It helped the high architecture of Venice, to become a major tourist center. The city is also one of the largest Italian port space. Venice and Venice capital of a twenty-political regions in Italy.
Venice is located on the northern tip of the Adriatic Sea, just 4 km from the Italian coast. In fact, the city's location on the Adriatic Sea made it an important trading center since as early as the ninth century. Venice became a powerful force freely, girl gradually empire stretching up the eastern areas of the Mediterranean basin. The city of Venice is in the height of its power called the Queen of the Adriatic Sea, but it has lost over the years a lot of economic and political power. In any case, the artistic treasures of the city helped to retaining its status a global cultural center. Today, the floods and polluted air and water lead to the destruction of the city gradually. Many people from different parts of the world have volunteered in several campaigns to save the city of Venice, which is the unity of Italian government called a commune. Islands are Venice's historic center of the city. The industrial centers and hadeeth in Margira and Mestre on the mainland are part of the commune of Venice, the lagoon separating the shallow Venice islands from the mainland. Using up above the lake between the mainland and two islands. And take a car, bus and train stations on the islands. The more than 150 channel serves as the roads connecting the islands of Venice, as the boat transfers. Old black flat boats called gondolas in crossovers between the islands have been used. See: gondolas. Today, dissolved boats mechanism replaces gondolas. The more than 400 channels and a bridge connecting the main islands of Venice. And connecting the buildings on the islands narrow crossings.
And shove the heart of Venice's Grand Canal, which is the main channel of the city and stands on its sides palaces of marble and stone was built between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. In the city center, cutting the Rialto Bridge channel. The main commercial area of the rifle on the narrow Marseria Street, which runs from the Rialto Bridge to St. Marks Square, which is the center of activity in the city. The Church of St. Mark on the eastern side of the field a global models for art Byzantine architecture. The rise close to her tower bells. Based on three aspects of the field buildings dating back to the architectural style in the era of the Renaissance. And take the cafes in front of these buildings are places to meet grainy to tourists and residents in the city, as there are Grand Ducal Palace which was built near the old field to be home to the 
rulers of Venice Aldugat. See: Grand Ducal.
rulers of Venice Aldugat. See: Grand Ducal.
And you can see works of art value in all areas of the city of Venice. And the Academy of Fine Arts contains an impressive array of famous paintings, including works painted by the flags of adults, such as the Titan, and Tntoreto, and Paolo Veronaz. And it offers the largest theater in the Venetian operas and plays. And hundreds of students enrolled in the architectural, artistic and musical school in Venice, as well as at the University of Venice. In Venice a few parks and gardens. Lido, a narrow corridor of sand aligns the islands from the east most beach resorts are pioneers in Europe and longer.
Venice has given the city's unique advantages site, but it caused her serious problems. For example, the water overflowing in winter storms immersive public squares, roads and devastating times Almbane.kma that lasting exposure to water weakens the foundations of the buildings in the city. Moreover, the air pollution is eroding buildings and a lot of art treasures located abroad. Having taken the city of Venice Islands sinking at a rate of five millimeters per year until the seventies of the twentieth century. Scientists believe that the reason for the dive is partially draining the underground water to be used in the industry, so the Italian government narrowed the use of ground wells (ground water) in the city. Water Pressure has increased 
under the islands and stop diving the city.
under the islands and stop diving the city.
Population. The city's population is constantly with water that surrounds them is affected. And it gives the water a special stamp on their food and their home and means of their move. For example, the seafood is the main part in a lunch or dinner in a typical city. It is not doing the houses and buildings on solid ground but on the pillars of pay in the mud. Most of the population of Roman Catholics. There are several annual events, in addition to the days of religious holidays, attract large crowds frequenting the city. One of these events is the festival of redemption, which commemorates the end of the plague that struck the city in 1575. On this holiday, which lasts throughout the night of the month of July, the musicians playing in the lighted boats across Alguenoat.kma being a race for boats.
Since 1950, thousands of displaced residents of the islands, to live in the Italian mainland and in Margira Meester. The majority of the population lives now in Venice Mestre. Many people moved to the Italian mainland to the existence of a wider job opportunities and lower cost of living there. Apartments and attract modern buildings in Margira Meester and many of the Venice area. Many buildings have been set up in the island hundreds of years ago, so it does not have a place there to build new housing.
Economy. Tourism the main economic activity in the Venice Islands. The historic center of the city every year to visit about three million tourists. These represent significant purchasing power handmade crafts produced by artisans in the various islands.
And concentrated industrial and commercial activities in the city of Venice in the regions of Margira and Meester where factories produce in these areas aluminum, chemicals, coal and fertilizer, paint, petroleum products, steel and other things. The port facilities are concentrated in Margira area. This has created the industrial development in the main Italian mainland in Venice thousands of jobs for the population. However, the industrial development was a major cause of air and water pollution that threatens the city.
brief history. In the fifth century AD, the first Venice residents fled to the islands for fear of barbarians who began occupying Italy coming from northern Europe. And Qrkan early for the city's economy is based on fishing and trade. The population roam the shores of the Adriatic Sea in search of new markets. Once the ninth century until he came to Venice trade relations with Constantinople (now Istanbul), and with the Italian cities on the Italian mainland, and with the North African coast. Venice has evolved to become an independent city state ruled by nobles.
Provided ships in Venice means of navigating the Fourth Crusade, which lasted between 1202 and 1204 m. The people of Venice participated in the Crusades with the Crusaders and conquered the Byzantine Empire, including Constantinople. But the growing strength of Venice put her in a series of wars with the city of Genoa, the naval force of competition. And managed the city of Venice, in the end defeated Genoa in 1380 AD and control of the trade in the eastern side of the Mediterranean basin. Venice became one of the largest European cities where he reached the height of its power in the fifteenth century when the colonial empire spanned encompassing the islands of Crete and Cyprus and the coast of Dalmatia (now part of Croatia) and the north-eastern part of Italy. And it carried the Venetian silk, spices and luxuries movable ships to Europe from Asia. Venice has become a leading center for art in the late Renaissance of the fifteenth century and sixteenth centuries. In the late fifteenth century, Christopher Columbus sailed to America and sailed Vasco da Gama discovered a path to India, go trade center of Europe, then to the Atlantic Ocean and fallen power of the gun. Gradually, he left the city of East colonies to the Ottomans.
In 1797, Napoleon Bonaparte led the French troops occupied the city of Venice. Napoleon and the Department of the rest of the empire of Venice between France and Austria, became the city of Venice under Austrian rule. In 1866, the city became part of the independent Kingdom of 
Italy.
Italy.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, industrialization began in the regions of Margira and Meester. During World War II (1939- 1945 AD), the German troops and put her hand over the city. The allied aircraft dropped bombs on the port Margira, but avoided the Venetian Islands.
In 1966, the cause of the devastating flood that hit most of Italy considerable destruction of Venice. The flooding caused severe damage and destruction to much of the city's boards and statues. International organizations have volunteered, as well as volunteer members with money, to help the Italian government to the reform and restoration.
After the flood, the government committees, as well as independent researchers, to conduct studies and access to methods to control pollution. In the late eighties of the twentieth century, the government agreed to adopt the amounts in order to support projects designed to protect the city from flooding and erosion caused by pollution.