Venice..the city of love and beauty

A flood did not hit that charming city, but its watery streets seem tempting to know the story of its palaces, bridges, waters and boats that roam the canals to the tones of the voice of an opera singer resounding under the moonlight, while lovers sing in the night of the charming city in the most romantic and beautiful cities in the world..

Venice was famous for its ancient palaces and historical buildings, but many of these palaces were transformed in the era into luxury hotels. In "Venice".

It is visited by members of the royal families and Hollywood celebrities. It was described by the famous American novelist Ernest Hemingway as the best hotel in the best city for hotels, and it has been cleverly maintained in a way that prevents water from entering it in a clever way after the water was flooding the luxurious furniture on its ground floor.

The rulers’ palaces in Venice date back to the ninth century AD, and continued to flourish until the collapse of the Republic of “Venice” in 1797. But the city has been famous throughout the ages for hotels and palaces since ancient times, so that it is sometimes difficult to determine whether the word “palace” means a hotel or a real palace.

The story of the floating city

The floating city is in danger of slowly sinking due to rising water levels in the Adriatic Sea, and it has also been suffering from a rise in the number of floods, which has become a concern for real estate investors. For example, the famous San Marco Square is flooded more than 50 times every year.

The rise in the level of the Adriatic Sea threatens to inundate large parts of the city during the next twenty years, if the authorities do not take action to stop the rising waters. This problem almost threatened real estate investments in the city until the Italian government finally embarked on building a huge project at a cost of 5 billion dollars.

It consists of constructing 80 dams or iron barriers at the seabed at the entrance of each water channel to the city with the aim of controlling the tidal movement and blocking high waves from entering the city's watery streets. In this way, the height of the water becomes constant or human-controlled, just as is the case in ordinary dams.

Venice is enriched by the palaces of nobles that overlook the squares, streets, streams, canals, and ancient dwellings of the richest families of Venice in the city's golden period. As for the schools and educational buildings such as the Doukkala Palace, all the palaces take the name of the family that built them.

Which left a significant mark. In view of the city’s fame in the past for trade, there are also “hotels” which are old buildings dating back to the Middle Ages that were used as warehouses and used to receive foreign merchants. Along the main canal there is the “Hotel of Germans”, “Hotel of the Turks” and “Hotel of Stores”.

Life across bridges

In Venice, more than 400 bridges between public and private bridges link the 118 islands on which the city is built, through 176 water channels, most of these bridges are built of stone and other materials such as wood and iron. The longest of these bridges is the Liberty Bridge, which crosses the lake and connects the city to the land area and thus allows vehicular traffic.

The project for this bridge was started in 1931 by the engineer Eugenio Meotsi, while it was opened in 1933 as the Lottorio Bridge. The main canal that crosses the city is the Great Canal, through four bridges:

The Rialto Bridge (constructed approximately in the sixteenth century), the Academy Bridge, the Scale Bridge and these last bridges were under the control of El Hasenburg and were built in the twentieth century and finally the Costeticona Palace in 2008 by the engineer Santigo Calatravista. Another symbol of the city is the Rialto Bridge, which was built by Antonio da Ponte in 1591. The only way to cross the Grand Canal was on foot.

Bridge of Sighs

Venice's most famous bridge, the Bridge of Sighs (Ponte dei Sospiri in Italian), is one of the city's most famous bridges located within walking distance of Piazza San Marco and connecting the Venetian Palace and a former prison of the Inquisition, crossing the Rio di Palazzo

. The Bridge of Sighs was designed by Italian architect Antonio Contino. It was completed around 1600 AD. Lord Byron referred to the bridge in a poem entitled Shield Harolds, and called it the Bridge of Sighs because prisoners had to cross it. When they are taken from prison to the palace for trial, during their passage over the bridge, and if the prisoners are guilty, they are sent to execute them through another passage of the bridge.

In short, it is the city of arts

Venice is a destination for telling people's lives between the past and the present, such as Giuliano Montaldo's "Gudano Bruno" in 1973, and Casanova's film directed by Lasse Hallström, starring Heath Ledger in 2005.

It was also the setting for Shakespeare's works such as the play Othello directed by Orson Welles in 1952 and The Merchant of Venice by Michel Radford and actor Al Pacino in 2004. Also, the novel "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann directed by Likino Viscinto and starring Stephen Norringlon in 2003.

Hollywood has chosen the city as the setting for a series of films, starting with Jock Basson's 1990 Nikita, the 2003 Gary Gray's The Italian Job, the 2010 Florian Hennik Vaughn's The Tourist, starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, and Steven Spielberg's 1989 film The Last Crusade, which It has many scenes that were filmed in the city, and the James Bond character that appeared in a group of films such as the movie 007 Agent, most notably the movie From Russia with My Love in 1963.

A large number of these stars stayed in the Gritti Palace Hotel, and the visitor can see their pictures hanging on the corridors of the hotel, along with the stars of senior writers who visited the hotel, such as Somerset Maugham Ernest Hemingway and other celebrities.

Venice in the eighteenth century was one of the most important cultural and artistic centers in the world. I knew one of the most famous violinists, Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741).

He is the founder of music along with Tommaso Tartini (1671-1751) and Giuseppe Marcello (1686-1739). The city hosts a large number of events and celebrations of world value. In the field of culture, the most important event is the “Venice Biennale”, which was founded in 1895, the International Exhibition of Architecture and the Venice Film Festival, which are held annually between the end of August and the beginning of September.

Venice - Venice geography

Venice (Italian Venezia, or in the language of the Venetians, in German Venedig) is a city in northern Italy and is the capital of the Veneto region and the capital of the province of Venice. The city arose in 800 BC in a “river-dotted with swamps” environment. It is the largest city in the region in terms of area and population. It consists of two separate parts, the middle (which contains a lake of the same name), Mestre and the land area.

For more than a thousand years, the city remained the capital of the “Republic of Venice” and was known as the Queen of the Adriatic Sea due to its cultural and artistic heritage and the region of its lakes. The city is one of the most beautiful cities in the world sponsored by UNESCO, which made it the second Italian city after Rome in terms of the high rate of tourist flow different parts of the outside.