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“By day it is filled with
boat traffic – water buses, delivery boats, gondolas
- if something floats and it's in
Venice, it moves along the Grand Canal.
And by daylight it is one of the glories of the Earth. But at night, especially when the moon is full and the soft illumination reflects off the water and onto the palaces - I don't know how to describe it so I won't, but if you died and in your will you asked for your ashes to be spread gently on the Grand Canal at midnight with a full moon, everyone would know this about you - you loved and understood beauty.” ― William Goldman, The Silent Gondoliers
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Friday, December 11, 2015
Venice
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The Venetian Lagoon is
the enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea in which the city of Venice is
situated. Its name in the Venetian language, Laguna
Veneta – cognate of Latin lacus, "lake" – has provided the
international name for an enclosed, shallow embayment of
salt water, a lagoon.
The Venetian Lagoon stretches from the River Sile in
the north to the Brenta in the south, with a surface area
of around 550 square kilometres (210 sq mi). It is around 8% land,
including Venice itself and many smaller islands. About 11% is permanently
covered by open water, or canal, as the network of dredged channels are called, while
around 80% consists of mud flats, tidal shallows and salt marshes.
The lagoon is the largest wetland in the Mediterranean Basin. [Wiki]
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