Venetian Lagoon, the Glossary

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1. 98 relations: Acqua alta, Adriatic Sea, Aquifer, Barrier island, Bay, Bottlenose dolphin, Brenta (river), Burano, Campagna Lupia, Canal, Cavallino-Treporti, Chioggia, Climate change, Codevigo, Dune, Enrico Martino, Environmental Justice Atlas, Episodes (journal), Estuary, Fall of the Western Roman Empire, Fish farming, Fishing, Giudecca, Huns, Hunting, Inlet, Isola di San Clemente, Isola di San Michele, Italian language, Italy, Jesolo, La Certosa, Lagoon, Last Glacial Period, Lazzaretto Vecchio, List of islands of Italy, Lombards, Magistrato alle acque, Malamocco, Marano Lagoon, Marghera, Marine transgression, Mazzorbo, Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean Sea, Mestre, Metropolitan City of Venice, Mira, Veneto, MOSE, Mudflat, ... Expand index (48 more) »

2. 7 Most Endangered Programme
3. Bays of Italy
4. Chioggia
5. Geography of Venice
6. Lagoons of Italy
7. Ramsar sites in Italy

Acqua alta

An acqua alta is an exceptional tide peak that occurs periodically in the northern Adriatic Sea. Venetian Lagoon and acqua alta are Geography of Venice.

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Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.

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Aquifer

An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing material, consisting of permeable or fractured rock, or of unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).

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Barrier island

Barrier islands are a coastal landform, a type of dune system and sand island, where an area of sand has been formed by wave and tidal action parallel to the mainland coast.

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Bay

A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay.

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Bottlenose dolphin

The bottlenose dolphin is a toothed whale in the genus Tursiops. They are common, cosmopolitan members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphins.

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Brenta (river)

The Brenta is an Italian river that runs from Trentino to the Adriatic Sea just south of the Venetian lagoon in the Veneto region, in the north-east of Italy.

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Burano

Burano is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, near Torcello at the northern end of the lagoon, known for its lace work and brightly coloured homes. Venetian Lagoon and Burano are Geography of Venice.

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Campagna Lupia

Campagna Lupia is a town in the province of Venice, Veneto, north-eastern Italy.

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Canal

Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi).

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Cavallino-Treporti

Cavallino-Treporti is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, northern Italy.

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Chioggia

Chioggia (Cióxa, locally; Clodia) is a coastal town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Venice in the Veneto region of northern Italy.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Codevigo

Codevigo is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about southwest of Venice and about southeast of Padua.

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Dune

A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand.

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Enrico Martino

Enrico Martino (born 16 January 1948) is an Italian photojournalist.

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Environmental Justice Atlas

The Environmental Justice Atlas, sometimes known as EJAtlas is a website that documents environmental conflict.

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Episodes (journal)

Episodes is the quarterly journal of the International Union of Geological Sciences, published in Seoul, Korea.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Fall of the Western Roman Empire

The fall of the Western Roman Empire, also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome, was the loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire, a process in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided between several successor polities.

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Fish farming

Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds.

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Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

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Giudecca

Giudecca (Zueca) is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, in northern Italy. Venetian Lagoon and Giudecca are Geography of Venice.

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Huns

The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the 4th and 6th centuries AD.

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Hunting

Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals.

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Inlet

An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.

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Isola di San Clemente

Isola di San Clemente (San Clemente Island) is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon in Italy.

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Isola di San Michele

The Island of San Michele (isola di San Michele,; ìxoła de San Michièl) is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, Veneto, northern Italy. Venetian Lagoon and Isola di San Michele are Geography of Venice.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Jesolo

Jesolo (Gèxoło) is a seaside resort town and comune of 26,873 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy.

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La Certosa

La Certosa (Italian: Isola della Certosa) is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy.

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Lagoon

A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses.

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Last Glacial Period

The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.

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Lazzaretto Vecchio

The Lazzaretto Vecchio ("Old Lazaret"), formerly known as ("Holy Mary of Nazareth"), is an island of the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, located near the Lido of Venice.

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List of islands of Italy

This is a list of islands of Italy.

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Lombards

The Lombards or Longobards (Longobardi) were a Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774.

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Magistrato alle acque

The was a collective magistracy of the Republic of Venice, responsible for water management in the Venetian Lagoon.

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Malamocco

Malamocco (Małamoco) was the first, and for a long time, the only, settlement on the Lido of Venice barrier island of the Lagoon of Venice. Venetian Lagoon and Malamocco are Geography of Venice.

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Marano Lagoon

Marano Lagoon is a huge lagoon in northeastern Italy. Venetian Lagoon and Marano Lagoon are lagoons of Italy and Ramsar sites in Italy.

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Marghera

Marghera is a municipalità (borough) of the comune of Venice, Italy. Venetian Lagoon and Marghera are Geography of Venice.

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Marine transgression

A marine transgression is a geologic event during which sea level rises relative to the land and the shoreline moves toward higher ground, which results in flooding.

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Mazzorbo

Mazzorbo is one of various islands in the northern part of the Lagoon of Venice. Venetian Lagoon and Mazzorbo are Geography of Venice.

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Mediterranean Basin

In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin, also known as the Mediterranean Region or sometimes Mediterranea, is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have mostly a Mediterranean climate, with mild to cool, rainy winters and warm to hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Mestre

Mestre is a borough of the comune of Venice on the mainland opposite the historical island city in the region of Veneto, Italy. Venetian Lagoon and Mestre are Geography of Venice.

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Metropolitan City of Venice

The Metropolitan City of Venice (città metropolitana di Venezia) is a metropolitan city in the Veneto region of Italy, one of ten metropolitan cities in Italy.

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Mira, Veneto

Mira is a comune (municipality) in the southern Veneto, northern Italy.

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MOSE

MOSE (translation) is a project intended to protect the city of Venice, Italy, and the Venetian Lagoon from flooding. Venetian Lagoon and MOSE are Geography of Venice.

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Mudflat

Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats or, in Ireland, slob or slobs, are coastal wetlands that form in intertidal areas where sediments have been deposited by tides or rivers.

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Murano

Murano is a series of islands linked by bridges in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. Venetian Lagoon and Murano are Geography of Venice.

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Musile di Piave

Musile di Piave (muˈzile di ˈpjave, Muzil muˈzil in Venetian) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, northern Italy.

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Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Pellestrina

Pellestrina is an island in northern Italy, forming a barrier between the southern Venetian Lagoon and the Adriatic Sea, lying south west of the Lido.

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Phosphorus

Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has symbol P and atomic number 15.

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Phytoplankton

Phytoplankton are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community and a key part of ocean and freshwater ecosystems.

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Po (river)

The Po is the longest river in Italy.

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Port

A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers.

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Poveglia

Poveglia is a small island located between Venice and Lido in the Venetian Lagoon, of northern Italy.

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Province of Padua

The province of Padua (provincia di Padova) is a province in the Veneto region of Italy.

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Quarto d'Altino

Quarto d'Altino is a town in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, Italy.

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Ramsar Convention

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of Ramsar sites (wetlands).

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Ravenna

Ravenna (also; Ravèna, Ravêna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. Venetian Lagoon and Ravenna are World Heritage Sites in Italy.

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Republic of Venice

The Republic of Venice, traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice.

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Sacca Fisola

Sacca Fisola is an artificial island in the Venetian Lagoon. Venetian Lagoon and Sacca Fisola are Geography of Venice.

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Sacca Sessola

Sacca Sessola, also called Isola delle Rose or "Island of Roses", is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, Veneto, Italy.

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Salt marsh

A salt marsh, saltmarsh or salting, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides.

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San Donà di Piave

San Donà di Piave (San Donà) is a city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, northern Italy.

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San Francesco del Deserto

San Francesco del Deserto is an island in the Venetian Lagoon in Veneto, Italy, with a surface of some 4 ha. Venetian Lagoon and San Francesco del Deserto are Geography of Venice.

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San Giorgio in Alga

San Giorgio in Alga (English: "St. George in the seaweed") is an island of the Venetian lagoon, northern Italy, lying between the Giudecca and Fusina (a frazione of Venice on the coast, near Marghera).

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San Giorgio Maggiore

San Giorgio Maggiore (San Zorzi Mazor) is one of the islands of Venice, northern Italy, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island group. Venetian Lagoon and San Giorgio Maggiore are Geography of Venice.

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San Lazzaro degli Armeni

San Lazzaro degli Armeni ("Saint Lazarus of the Armenians"; sometimes called Saint Lazarus Island in English; Surb Ghazar) is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon which has been home to the monastery of the Mekhitarists, an Armenian Catholic congregation, since 1717.

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San Pietro di Castello (island)

San Pietro di Castello (San Piero de Casteło), formerly Olivolo (Olivòlo; Ołivoło), is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, forming part of the Castello sestiere.

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San Servolo

San Servolo is an Italian island in the Venetian Lagoon, to the southeast of San Giorgio Maggiore.

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Sant'Elena (island)

Sant'Elena is an island of Venice. Venetian Lagoon and Sant'Elena (island) are Geography of Venice.

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Sant'Erasmo

Sant'Erasmo is an island in the Venetian Lagoon lying north-east of the Lido island and east of Venice, Italy.

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Santa Maria della Grazia

Santa Maria della Grazia or La Grazia is an artificial island of the Venetian lagoon, northern Italy, which lies between the Giudecca and San Clemente.

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Santo Spirito (island)

Santo Spirito is an island in the southern Venetian Lagoon situated between the islands of Poveglia and San Clemente.

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Seagrass

Seagrasses are the only flowering plants which grow in marine environments.

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Seaweed

Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae.

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Sile (river)

The Sile (Venetian: Sil) is a 95 km river in the Veneto region in north-eastern Italy.

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Sottomarina

Sottomarina is a small town on a peninsula which has the same name. Venetian Lagoon and Sottomarina are Chioggia.

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Subsidence

Subsidence is a general term for downward vertical movement of the Earth's surface, which can be caused by both natural processes and human activities.

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Tethys Research Institute

The Tethys Research Institute (official name: Istituto Tethys ONLUS) is a non-profit research organisation founded in 1986 to support marine conservation through science and public awareness and by participating in the international conservation process.

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Thalassocracy

A thalassocracy or thalattocracy, sometimes also maritime empire, is a state with primarily maritime realms, an empire at sea, or a seaborne empire.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.

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Torcello

Torcello (Torcellum; Torceło) is a sparsely populated island at the northern end of the Venetian Lagoon, in north-eastern Italy. Venetian Lagoon and Torcello are Geography of Venice.

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Total organic carbon

Total organic carbon (TOC) is an analytical parameter representing the concentration of organic carbon in a sample.

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Trieste

Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy.

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Tronchetto

Tronchetto (also known as Isola nuova, meaning "New island") is an artificial island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, located at the westernmost tip of the main Venice island.

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Venetian Arsenal

The Venetian Arsenal (Arsenale di Venezia) is a complex of former shipyards and armories clustered together in the city of Venice in northern Italy.

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Venetian language

Venetian, wider Venetian or Venetan (łengua vèneta or vèneto) is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy,Ethnologue mostly in Veneto, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it.

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Veneto

Veneto or the Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the north-east of the country.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. Venetian Lagoon and Venice are World Heritage Sites in Italy.

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Venice Lido

The Lido, or Venice Lido (Lido di Venezia), is an barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon, Northern Italy; it is home to about 20,400 residents. Venetian Lagoon and Venice Lido are Geography of Venice.

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Vignole

Vignole (also Le Vignole) is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy, with an area of.

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Wetland

A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.

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See also

7 Most Endangered Programme

• 7 Most Endangered Programme
• Amphitheatre of Durrës
• Belgrade Fortress
• Bežigrad Stadium
• Bourla Theatre
• Buzludzha monument
• Cittadella of Alessandria
• Constanța Casino
• David Gareji monastery complex
• Fortifications of Vauban UNESCO World Heritage Sites
• Grimsby Ice Factory
• Hasankeyf
• Helsinki-Malmi Airport
• Monastery of Jesus of Setúbal
• Mont-Saint-Michel
• National Theatre (Albania)
• Palace of Mafra
• Patarei Prison
• Polirone Abbey
• Prinkipo Greek Orthodox Orphanage
• Sammezzano
• Subotica Synagogue
• Szombierki Heat Power Station
• United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus
• Venetian Lagoon

Bays of Italy

• Augusta Bay (Sicily)
• Chiaia di Luna
• Liscia di Vacca
• Porto Conte
• Tegnue
• Velma (mudflat)
• Venetian Lagoon

Chioggia

• Basilica minore di San Giacomo Apostolo, Chioggia
• Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli Pietro e Paolo, Chioggia
• Chiesa di San Francesco, Chioggia
• Chioggia
• Chioggia Cathedral
• I Hate Christmas
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Chioggia
• Sottomarina
• Tegnue
• Tempio di San Martino, Chioggia
• Union Clodiense Chioggia FC
• Venetian Lagoon
• War of Chioggia

Geography of Venice

• Acqua alta
• Bibione
• Burano
• Dorsoduro
• Favaro Veneto
• Fondaco dei Tedeschi
• Fondaco dei Turchi
• Giardini della Biennale
• Giudecca
• Giudecca Canal
• Grand Canal (Venice)
• Grand Canal (Venice) architecture
• Gronda lagunare
• Gulf of Venice
• Isola di San Michele
• Isola di San Secondo
• MOSE
• Malamocco
• Marghera
• Mazzorbo
• Mestre
• Murano
• Punta della Dogana
• Rialto
• Riva degli Schiavoni
• Sacca Fisola
• San Francesco del Deserto
• San Giorgio Maggiore
• San Marco basin
• Sant'Elena (island)
• Sestieri of Venice
• Torcello
• Velma (mudflat)
• Venetian Ghetto
• Venetian Lagoon
• Venice Lido
• Vetrego

Lagoons of Italy

• Gronda lagunare
• Marano Lagoon
• Stagno di Cagliari
• Stagnone Lagoon
• Venetian Lagoon

Ramsar sites in Italy

• Cesine
• Gronda lagunare
• Lago dei Monaci
• Lago di Burano
• Lago di Caprolace
• Lago di Mezzola
• Lago di San Giuliano
• Lago di Tovel
• Laguna di Orbetello
• Lake Barrea
• Lake Massaciuccoli
• Marano Lagoon
• Molentargius - Saline Regional Park
• Saline di Margherita di Savoia
• Stagno di Cagliari
• Venetian Lagoon

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Lagoon

Also known as Lagoon of Venice, Laguna Veneta, Laguna di Venezia, Sant'Ariano, Venetian Riviera, Venice Lagoon.

, Murano, Musile di Piave, Nitrogen, NPR, Pellestrina, Phosphorus, Phytoplankton, Po (river), Port, Poveglia, Province of Padua, Quarto d'Altino, Ramsar Convention, Ravenna, Republic of Venice, Sacca Fisola, Sacca Sessola, Salt marsh, San Donà di Piave, San Francesco del Deserto, San Giorgio in Alga, San Giorgio Maggiore, San Lazzaro degli Armeni, San Pietro di Castello (island), San Servolo, Sant'Elena (island), Sant'Erasmo, Santa Maria della Grazia, Santo Spirito (island), Seagrass, Seaweed, Sile (river), Sottomarina, Subsidence, Tethys Research Institute, Thalassocracy, Tide, Torcello, Total organic carbon, Trieste, Tronchetto, Venetian Arsenal, Venetian language, Veneto, Venice, Venice Lido, Vignole, Wetland.