WebVenice is a city in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The city includes what locals call "Venice Island", a portion of the mainland that is accessed via bridges over the artificially created Intracoastal Waterway. The city is located in Southwest Florida.

WebThe Venice Canal Historic District is embedded in the residential Venice suburb of Los Angeles, California.The historic district is noteworthy for possessing man-made wetland canals, built in 1905 by developer Abbot Kinney as part of his Venice of America.Kinney sought to recreate the appearance and feel of Venice, Italy, in coastal Los Angeles County.

WebThe Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Italian: Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy.It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Five" International film festivals …

WebVampire in Venice (Italian: Nosferatu a Venezia), also known as Prince of the Night and Nosferatu In Venice is a 1988 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Augusto Caminito and an uncredited Klaus Kinski, and starring Kinski, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pleasence, and Barbara De Rossi.The story follows Professor Paris Catalano (Plummer), …

WebPortia is a female protagonist of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.A rich, beautiful, intelligent heiress of Belmont, she is bound by the lottery set forth in her father's will, which gives potential suitors the chance to choose among three caskets. If he chooses the right casket, he wins Portia's hand in marriage.

WebVenice fu fondata da Abbot Kinney nel 1905 sul modello rinascimentale della città di Venezia (canali, gondole e gondolieri annessi) con l'idea che diventasse un importante centro di turismo e divertimento, cosa che fu una realtà sino agli anni venti.La scoperta del petrolio, con il conseguente inquinamento dei canali in seguito per lo più asfaltati e …

WebDeath in Venice (Italian: Morte a Venezia) is a 1971 historical drama film directed and produced by Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti, adapted by Visconti and Nicola Badalucco from the 1912 novella of the same name by German author Thomas Mann.It stars Dirk Bogarde as Gustav von Aschenbach and Björn Andrésen as Tadzio, with supporting …

WebThe Venetian Lagoon (Italian: Laguna di Venezia; Venetian: Łaguna de Venesia) is an enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated. Its name in the Italian and Venetian languages, Laguna Veneta —cognate of Latin lacus, "lake"—has provided the English name for an enclosed, shallow embayment of salt …

WebThe Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598.A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. Although classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play …

WebThe Venetian Las Vegas is a luxury hotel and casino resort located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States, on the site of the old Sands Hotel.Designed by KlingStubbins, the hotel tower contains 36 stories and rises 475 feet (145 m).The Venetian is owned by Vici Properties and operated by Apollo Global Management.The Venetian …