1. Venice Shannon Calter, Kristina Kinney, And Kristilynn Melloy.

2. The City of a Thousand Rivers Venice has around 150 canals connected by 409 bridges, and over 3000 alleyways on the 117 islands. Basically every time you see a bridge it is connecting two islands. Venice is sinking. The mean level of the land has lowered while the sea levels have risen.

3. Utopia! Crime, especially violent crime, is virtually non-existent in Venice Venice has no sewer system; household waste flows into the canals and is washed out into the ocean twice a day with the tides.

4. Venice also known as the Queen of the Adriatic La Serenissima Venice is an archipelago of over 100 islands in the center of the shallow lagoon St. Mark is the patron saint of Venice. The island of San Michele, a former prison, is Venice's cemetery since the early 1800s.