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The Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.

Santa Maria della Salute as seen from the Grand Canal.

The Grand Canal viewed from space in 2001,

The Grand Canal (Italian,: Canal Grande, Venetian,: Canałasso) is the most important canal in Venice, Italy. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. Public transportation is provided by the water bus and by private water taxis. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Taken by User:Leland on April 7, 2004. ... Taken by User:Leland on April 7, 2004. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2856 × 2142 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2856 × 2142 pixel, file size: 1. ... The Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute (Basilica of St Mary of Health/Salvation), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a famous church in Venice, placed scenically at a narrow finger of land which lies between the Grand Canal and the Bacino di San Marco on the lagoon, visible... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Canal (disambiguation). ... Venice (Venetian: Venezsia, Italian: Venezia, Latin: Venetia) is the capital of region Veneto, and has a population of 271,663 (census estimate January 1, 2004). ...

Running through most of the city, it "starts" from the lagoon near the train station, makes a large S-shape through the central districts, the "sestiere" of Venice, and ends at the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, near Piazza San Marco (Saint Mark's Square), with an average depth of five meters. The Venetian Lagoon The Venetian Lagoon or the Venetian Riviera is a lagoon off the Adriatic Sea in which the city of Venice is situated. ... Map of the sestieri, also showing the inland district of Mestre. ... The Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute (Basilica of St Mary of Health/Salvation), commonly known simply as the Salute, is one of the largest churches of Venice and has the status of a minor basilica. ... Piazza San Marco with the Basilica, by Canaletto, 1730, looking just as it does today. ...

Its banks are lined with some of the most beautiful buildings of the city, amongst the many palazzos are the Ca' Rezzonico, Ca d'Oro, Ca' Foscari, Palazzo Barbarigo and the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, housing the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. The churches along the canal include Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute and Il Redentore. The quintessential medieval European palace: Palais de la Cité, in Paris, the royal palace of France. ... Ca Rezzonico is a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice. ... Ca dOro façade overlooking the Grand Canal Ca dOro (correctly the Palazzo Santa Sofia) is one of the most beautiful palazzos on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy and surely the most famous. ... The Palazzo Foscari (known in Venice as Ca Foscari) was built on the waterfront of Venices Grand Canal circa 1437 by the Doge Francesco Foscari, who required its design to demonstrate his wealth and power. ... Palazzo Barbarigo is situated on the Grand Canal in Venice. ... The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a small museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. ... The Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute (Basilica of St Mary of Health/Salvation), commonly known simply as the Salute, is one of the largest churches of Venice and has the status of a minor basilica. ... Il Redentore, more properly Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore (Church of the Most Holy Redeemer), is Andrea Palladios great domed church on Giudecca, one of the islands of Venice. ...

Because most of the city's traffic goes along the Canal rather than across it, there are only three bridges: the Ponte dei Scalzi, the Ponte dell'Accademia and most famously the covered Rialto Bridge. A fourth bridge designed by Santiago Calatrava is now under construction. It will connect the train station to the Piazzale Roma. People can take a ferry ride across the canal by standing-up on the deck of a simple gondola called traghetto. The Ponte dei Scalzi (bridge of the barefoot) is one of only three in Venice to span the Grand Canal. ... The Ponte dellAccademia is one of only three in Venice to span the Grand Canal. ... The Rialto Bridge Rialto Bridge The Rialto Bridge (Italian: Ponte di Rialto) The Rialto Bridge (Italian: Ponte di Rialto) spans the Grand Canal in Venice. ... Santiago Calatrava Valls (born July 28, 1951) is an internationally recognized and award-winning Spanish architect and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zurich, Switzerland. ... A Venetian gondola A gòndola is a traditional Venetian rowing boat. ...

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