Veneto is located in the northeastern part of Italy, bordering on the Italian regions of Emilia-Romagna and Lombardia, the autonomous Italian regions of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Friuli Venezia Giulia, and the nation of Austria. HISTORY LANGUAGES CLIMATE ECONOMY
Venice: (thanks to APT di Venezia http://www.turismovenezia.it) It is a city that must be discovered on foot, perhaps by losing oneself in the magical labyrinth created by lanes, small and large squares, and canals. Breathing in the atmosphere that is knowledgable of distant places.
To understand the city in greater depth, it is essential to leave the traditional torist routes and to lose onself in the labyrinth of land and water that continually meet and deepen. Venice guarantees emotional enchantment all year round. In the evenings, in that mysterious silence that is only possible in Venice, the city becomes even more extraordinary and dreamlike, leaving us time to abandon ourselves to romance, poetry, and melancholy... ***A gòndola is a traditional Venetian sculling boat. Gondolas were for centuries The gondola is propelled by an oarsman (the gondolier) who stands facing the bow and pushes, rather than pulls, a single oar. Contrary to popular belief the gondola is never poled like a punt as the waters of Venice are too deep. A gondola for passengers may have a small open cabin, for their protection against sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now. It is estimated that there were several thousand gondolas during the 18th century. There are a few hundred today, most of which are for hire by tourists, while a few serve as traghetti or are in private ownership and use.
Verona: (thanks to Provincia di Verona http://www.tourism.verona.it)
THE TERRITORY Sport and Health Verona symbolic monument is the Arena, the amphitheatre with almost 2000 years of history. While the palaces and courtyards are connected to the mythical Romeo and Juliet, Verona continues to enchant the whole world. A walk through its narrow streets allows you to get in touch with its varied and fascinating past: traces of its splendid Roman origins, its prevailing medieval structure dating back to the time of knights and castles, its magnificent Renaissance palaces as well as the impressive fortifications which protect it. Links: Vicenza: (http://www.vicenzae.org )
The morphological and geographical variety of Vicenza and its sourroundings is composed by mountains, hills, rivers, some lakes and plains, which create a particular fascinating landscape. The Province of Vicenza offers also a wide range of cultural, artistic and historical attractions for tourists. For these reasons Vicenza is worth a visit. For its unicum of landscape, monuments Vicenza is now in the List of the World Heritage of UNESCO. That wide variety of attraction creates seven kinds of tourism typologies:
Vicenza has 317 hotels and offer 15,000 accomodations. The City centre of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto are a cluster of works by Andrea Palladio and his students which were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994. The number of villas included in the site was expanded two years later.
The term villa was used to describe a country house. Often rich families also had a house in town called a Palazzo. In most cases the owners named the Palazzo or Villa with the family surname, hence confusingly there is both a Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza and a Villa Chiericati in the countryside, just as there is a Palazzo Foscari in Venice and a Villa Foscari in the Veneto. Other attractions :
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The colour of the water, its ability to reflect the sky, the façade of frescoed palaces by the best artists of the period, Tiziano, Bellini, Giorgione... the Venetian colour that is born from the water and takes on a special element from superimposing Florentine design. It seems that even in art, the city was destined to be linked to its environment.
The construction of the gondola has continued to evolve until the late 19th century, when motorized boats began to replace gondolas in Venice. A gondola is long and narrow, with an asymmetrical outline to facilitate propulsion with a single oar, and a good deal of rocker (lengthwise curvature) to minimise the area of contact with the water. The oar or rèmo is held in an oar lock known as a fòrcola. The forcola is of a complicated shape, allowing several positions of the oar for slow forward rowing, powerful forward rowing, turning, slowing down and rowing backwards. The iron ornament on the front of the boat is called the fèrro. It serves to protect the prow from accidental damage, as decoration and as counterweight for the gondolier standing near the stern.
