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  Section dedicated to the relationship between Venice and the East
Venice's relations with the East were always close: the eastern countries were regular ports of call for the whole duration of the Republic.
Between 800 and the year 1000 Venice intensified and developed sea traffic, reaching increasingly distant ports: this paved the way to Venice's fortune and its control of the seas towards the East, augmenting its power and authority.
Venice's basic political line was oriented towards Byzantium, due to an irrepressible attraction felt for the most active centre of its economic interests, of art, of splendour and of a theocratic conception of government.
www.basilicasanmarco.it /WAI/eng/storia_societa/oriente/oriente.bsm   (469 words)

  
 Venice florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Venice is on the southwest coast of Florida, between Sarasota.
Venice is a city located in Sarasota County, Florida.
Save Venice Florida Corvettes (VFC) is a non-profit organization formed to promote good fellowship among Corvette owners and enthusiasts, to preserve the Corvette as a classic car, to maintain a high degree of knowledge of the Corvette through.
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 Veneto - Venice - Belluno - Padova - Rovigo - Treviso - Verona - Vicenza
Venice is the birthplace of polenta, plain, grilled, or fried, it is an added accompaniment to meat, fish, or game.
Pasta e fagioli, a thick pasta and bean soup is a traditional plate in Venice.
Venice is the most beautiful city in the world as these photographs show.
italiancook.ca /Veneto.htm   (903 words)

  
 Venice Italy Venice hotels Venice hotel Venice lodging in Venice accommodation Venice
Between 1500 and 1700 some wealthy Venetian families asked the most illustrious architects and artists of the period to build their princely and spectacular summer residences.....
The Hotel Torino is situated in the heart of Venice, near the luxurious boutiques of Calle XXII Marzo and just a one minute's walk from the spectacular St. Mark's Square...
Venice, gateway to the Orient, is one of the few cities in the world that can be truly described as unique.
www.veniceworld.com   (277 words)

  
 Venice Hotels - Venice Italy Hotel Reservations
Ca' Sagredo is the new luxury 5 star hotel in Venice overlooking the Grand Canal between the Ca' D'Oro and the Rialto Bridge.A city of divine architecture and legendary history, Venice is a celebration of the romantic spirit.
The Antica Locanda Al Gambero is located in the heart of Venice 150meters from Piazza San Marco and the Rialto Bridge, maintaining thewarmth and charm of a small Venetian-style hotel.
Situated in the heart of the ancient Venice, Al Sole Hotel is a high quality hotel located in a marvelous fifteenth-century Palazzo, property of the homonymous noble Venetian family that still owns and...
www.traveleurope.it /itinerari/v/venezia.shtml   (946 words)

  
 Ahhh, Venice - 24-Hour Layover: Venice - MSNBC.com
Luigi Costantini / AP The Bucintoro, the barge of Venice's ruler, the Doge, leads a parade of historical venetian boats as it sails along the Grand Canal during the Historical Regatta, in Venice, Italy.
Hence, Amsterdam is known as the Venice of Northern Europe, Suzhou calls itself the Venice of the Orient, and even Fort Lauderdale wants to be considered the Venice of the East Coast.
You might want to consider riding this floating bus again in the late afternoon when the warm dusk light burnishes the softly fading ochres, marble whites and rust reds of the buildings; and again at night, when the opulent interiors of the palazzi are lit up, and suddenly visible from the boat.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/16771621   (1158 words)

  
 VENICE (Venezia) - Online Information article about VENICE (Venezia)
state prisons (1591-97) on the opposite side of the narrow canal on the east of the Rio del Palazzo.
The early bridges were inclined planes and could easily be crossed by horses.
The exterior facade is enriched with marble columns brought from Alexandria and other cities of the East, and bearing in many cases incised graffiti.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /VAN_VIR/VENICE_Venezia_.html   (5230 words)

  
 Venice of the East - Real Estate Investment Company
Combining a fusion of Quality, Concept and Culture - together with 5 - 6 Star levels of specification, blended with nature and tradition - the Venice of the East project has been designed to deliver - not only in terms of investment, but also as a breathtaking and impressive multi-resort.
'Venice of the East' is a multi-phase project which has been intensively researched and created to offer investors an incredible opportunity to be a part of a privileged few to take advantage of the growing global real estate market, combined with the increasing levels of high quality international tourism and business convention venues.
For a limited time we are inviting you to review what we offer, and to decide for yourself if you want to be part of what will be one of the most fashionable, sought-after developments in the region.
www.veniceoftheeast.com   (288 words)

  
 Venice travel guide - Wikitravel
Venice [3], Italy (Venezia in Italian) is still one of the most interesting and lovely places in the world.
Venice has certainly begun to decay since its heyday and is heavily touristed (there are slightly more tourists than residents)-- but the romantic charm remains.
Venice Lido - the island of tranquillity, a beach district just 10 minutes by boat from San Marco, and where the Venice movie festival is held.
wikitravel.org /en/Venice   (9118 words)

  
 ART: Just lookingBellini and the East at the National Gallery
Bellini and the East focuses on that visit, during which Bellini produced (apparently) a handful of exquisite drawings as well as the strange, damaged yet weirdly compelling Portrait of Mehmed II, and the dreamy, engimatic Seated Scribe.
Venice is the hardy if odd-tasting fruit of intermingled faiths, linguistic groups, nationalities, ethnicities and ways of living almost beyond number.
In short, then, the tale told by Howard in Venice and the East is neither an inspiring one of irenic co-existence, nor a gloomy one of perpetual and inevitable conflict.
www.electric-review.com /archives/000272.html   (5513 words)

  
 Hotels in Venice | HOTEL 0% COMMISSION FEES | Venice Hotels — Venice Italy
Abbazia de luxe, a bed and breakfast in Venice, in the ambiance of a boutique hotel, close to the train station e with Grand Canal view.
It is located in the historical Venice, in a 16th century Venetian palace just one minute's walk from St. Mark's Square and the Doges' Palace, the very heart of the city.
For your holiday in Venice, stay at the intimate Locanda Al Ghetto, the Pensione Wildner close to St. Mark's Square, with its famous restaurant, or Hotel Cristallo in the heart of Venice's Lido.
venice.hotels-0.com   (4155 words)

  
 Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism & Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on ...
Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism & Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500 & Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West.
Two (Georgopoulou and Howard) concentrate on Venice, One (Mack) is a broadly based overview spanning three centuries and presumably covering the whole of Italy.
Maria Georgopoulou's book is the account of an interesting and important phenomenon: the architectural and urbanistic transformations introduced by Venice in the empire formed after the conquest of Constantinople in 1204 and maintained until the Ottoman takeover completed with the occupation of Crete in 1669.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0422/is_1_85/ai_99695886   (952 words)

  
 Progressive Dawoodi Bohras: Udaipur - Photo Gallery
Near the entrance of the palaces there are eight carved arches or Toranas under which the Maharanas were weighed in gold and silver which was later distributed among the poor as a pious act to ward off the evil influences.
On the south east bank of the lake near Dudh Talai pond a fascinating sunset is worth watching for the tourists.
Adjoining the east embankment of Fateh Sagar lake is Sahelion ki bari constructed by Maharana Sangram Singh in the middle of the 18th century for the royal maids.
www.dawoodi-bohras.com /aboutus/udaipur/tour.htm   (1903 words)

  
 [2006.12.19]Venice and the East:Foreign affairs - 文艺 - ECO 论坛 - Powered by Discuz!
Venice wanted to set itself up as a new Alexandria: a centre of trade and learning in the Mediterranean that could link the Christian West with the Muslim East.
A century later, Venice's trading power had declined and her depiction of the Islamic world portrayed the “infidel” as a figure of fun or of fear, with countless carvings of Turks in chains adorning the prows of her ships.
Bellini's profile portrait of Mehmet sniffing a rose is a masterpiece of cross-cultural exchange: Mehmet appears as a civilised ruler rather than a threat, yet in its colour and composition this portrait is unmistakably the handiwork of a Venetian master, testament to the city's artistic pre-eminence.
ecocn.org /forum/viewthread.php?extra=page=3&tid=2102   (800 words)

  
 Hotels in Venice — hotel Venice — accommodation in Venice — lodgings Venice — accommodations in Venice Italy
Hotels in Venice - hotel Venice — accommodation in Venice — lodgings Venice — accommodations in Venice Italy - hotels
Hotel Torino is located in the historical Venice and offers 3 different kind of accomodations...
In the historical heart of Venice: attractive apartments with all mod cons for 2,4 or 6 people...
venice.hotelsfinder.com   (266 words)

  
 4 Hotel Reservations Venice - Accoomodation in Venice
No matter if you are looking for a cheap accommodation in a economy Venice hotel or indend to enjoy a luxury Venice Hotel, here you find them all.
Rich in history and legends Venice introduces the tourist to a fantastic carousel of endless calli, campielli, channels, churches, museums and splendid buildings that show Venice as the meeting of east and west.
Tradition has it that Venice is wed to the sea, true the soul of the city is there.
www.4hotelreservationsvenice.com   (422 words)

  
 County aims to control growth of east Venice
VENICE -- The county could set a precedent for how it manages growth with a new strategy designed to cut down urban sprawl in a fast-growing area east of Venice.
Venice's original city planner, John Nolen, envisioned it as a small farm community east of the city.
VENICE -- The county could set a precedent for how it manages growth with a new strategy designed to cut down urban sprawl in a fast-growing area east of Venice.Nine developments, totalling mo.
www.heraldtribune.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060927/NEWS/609270319/-1/RSS01   (763 words)

  
 Exhibition: Venice and Islam at the Doge Palace Venice Hotel Ca' d'Oro hotels Venice Italy - Official Site
After Paris and New York, the grand exhibit dedicated to the relations between the Republic of Venice and the world of Islam is coming to the Doge Palace in Venice.
The history between Venice and the East is one of war and peace, filled with incessant exchanges and intensely bewitching.
With its trade centers, Venice was the sole European power with permanent plenipotentiaries in the cities of the Near East and rose to its role of a great maritime empire thanks to these capable relations.
www.venicehotelcadoro.com /en/exhibition_venice_and_islam_at_the_doge_palace_03en8569en.htm   (315 words)

  
 Turist Information - Venice Hotel Start Page
Once in Italy, the A4 is the quickest way to reach Venice from east or west, connecting Turin with Trieste, and passing through Milan and Mestre.
The first settlers of Venice were the Ligurians who perhaps came first and established themselves on the Euganei hills arriving here from the sea and the land, the Trojans escaping from their town and the Venetians coming from the Slavonic countries.
Little remains of early Venice, which was all made of wood - The early proof of this is the map called Temanza, This map was drawn by an anonymous before 1150.
www.venicehotelstart.com   (1381 words)

  
 Bangkok : History,by Thaiways Magazine, a comprehensive guide to Thailand
The main reason for the removal was that Bangkok had a better location for protection from foreign invasions as it was separated by the river from the west bank and also covered a bigger area.
These canals together with other smaller ones were the source of Bangkok's nickname "Venice of the East".
Bangkok on the east bank known as Krung Thep or Phra Nakhon became a province and Thon Buri on the west bank became another province.
www.thaiwaysmagazine.com /bangkok/bangkok_history.html   (595 words)

  
 Venice Gondolier - 03/19/06
It is now the time for the Sarasota County commissioners to take up the East Venice Avenue Community Plan.
While the version of the plan being presented to the board is exactly what the county's consultant came up with, it will have a series of notes from the county planning commission attached.
The boundaries of the planning area are Jacaranda Boulevard to the west, North River Road to the east, Interstate 75 to the north, and one block south of East Venice Avenue to the south.
www.venicegondolier.com /NewsArchive3/031906/vn3.htm   (428 words)

  
 Venice Italy IT Hotels: Discount Venice Italy Hotel Reservations
Venice Italy IT hotels from the City-State Hotels network and guides.
Our team of lodging and hotel experts has compiled a comprehensive list of hotels, including pictures, property information, handicap info, family info, pets, concierge and much more.
Choose from hotels located in any one of the city's regions such as West of Downtown, East of Downtown, West of Grand Canal, East of Grand Canal, Our goal is to provide up to the minute info to all hotels we serve in Venice Italy IT.
www.it-venice-italy-hotels.com   (111 words)

  
 Venetian Waterway Park
Benches, litter receptacles, dog clean-up stations, picnic shelters and grills, scenic ICW views and glimpses of wildlife are found along the 10-mile long, 8-foot wide linear trail for walkers, joggers and bikers.
Parking on the west side of the ICW is located on Golf Street, on the east side of the Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice; and at the east end of Airport Avenue, through the gates, on the dirt road, to the south side of Circus Bridge.
Parking on the east side of the ICW is at Marina Park and Boat Ramp, the historic Venice Train Depot, and Shamrock Park in South Venice.
www.venicegov.com /Park_links/venetian_waterway.htm   (144 words)

  
 Dharma-Ayurveda Guide : KERALA - AYURVEDA PARADISE and VENICE of the EAST
KERALA - AYURVEDA PARADISE and VENICE of the EAST
This is not only fascinating for nature lovers and bird-watchers but for all those who wish to enjoy and experience something unusual.
This so called backwaters with its rivers, channels, lakes connecting the inner land with the sea makes Kerala justifyingly the Venice of Asia/ Venice of the East.
www.dharmaayurveda.com /article/2324.html?a   (591 words)

  
 Yangtze Passage - A luxurious Journey of China & The Yangtze River
Ever since the decision was made to build the Three Gorges Dam, a cruise on the Yangtze has taken on a new urgency, as many travelers realize that time is running out for experiencing one of the world's great natural wonders...
Featured on the trip are the "must see" destinations of Shanghai - gateway to the new China, Suzhou - the "Venice of the East", Beijing, with its great palaces, and Xian, famous for the terra-cotta army of The First Emperor.
Spend the day exploring the canals, gardens and silk spinning and embroidery workshops of the place Marco Polo called “the Venice of the East” before returning to Shanghai this evening by train.
www.asiavoyages.com /passage.html   (797 words)

  
 In the 'Venice of the East,' a history of diversity | csmonitor.com
In the 'Venice of the East,' a history of diversity
For Basrawis, as the province's natives are known, it's the "Venice of the East," with its meandering canals and gondola-shaped boats decorated with flowers that once carried newlyweds and lovers.
The province's population is 1.8 million, according to the 1997 census, but provincial authorities say it's now at least 3 million, based on food ration cards and ID forms, with roughly half of that living in Basra city.
www.csmonitor.com /2007/0918/p11s02-wome.html   (761 words)

  
 Leaside Regeneration, the sustainable regeneration company for East London
The vision will transform east London into a 'Venice of the east' by rediscovering its hidden network of waterways that were once the lifeblood of the area.
By reengaging communities with the waterways, Water City presents an opportunity to transform east London into a vibrant and desirable place to live and work.
The Water City Group's approach to regeneration is unique, rooted in social culture and life experiences it aims to work in partnership with local communities, architects and businesses to co-create new life opportunities for local people.
www.leasideregeneration.com /detail.php?ItemID=338   (477 words)

  
 RVs To Go - Venice, Florida
RVs To Go-Venice is on the east split of US 41 through Venice.
We are on the west side of the road, a little north of the Center Rd. stop light.
We are in the building where the sign reads "KJ Enterprises", next to Truck Toys of Venice.
www.venicervrentals.com /find_us/index.htm   (57 words)

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