Venezia

When you plan your first visit to Italy, you will likely put Roma, Firenze, and Venezia at the top of your list, perhaps adding Milano and Napoli as well. These destinations make sense because they are all world-class cities with great history, art, architecture, culture, and food.

1996, Fred Plotkin, “Introduction: Garibaldi with a Fork”, in Italy for the Gourmet Traveler, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 5

“[…] The only thing I really want to see is Venice. That is the place where they have the gondolas, right?” / “Right,” Marcos said. “That is where I live. Venezia.” […] “Do you have water right outside your front door and ride around in gondolas?” Katie asked. / “Of course. Venezia is built on more than a hundred islands. Nearly everyone has water outside the front door. My father owns a jewelry store near the Piazza San Marcos. Carlo Savini Jewelers. If you go to Venezia, you must go to his store.[…]”

2000, Robin Jones Gunn, chapter 6, in Until Tomorrow, Minneapolis, Minn.: Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, pages 65–66

By mid-morning, a squall came whipping up the Adriatic, the sea churning and frothing as it swept into the lagoon, stirring up the canals that made Venezia famous; […]

2014 December, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, chapter 2, in Sustenance: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 40