Art & Culture VENEZIA     Code trips: 2024/205 - individual tours

The beginnings of the city, spreading on the 117 islands and islets that the sandy shore, Lido, protects the lagoon begin in the 5th century. At that time, the inhabitants of Aquila fleeing from Huna fled to some of these wetland islands. At that shelter, the Duke of Doha headed to the forefront (697), and finally was born a commercial metropolis, St. Mark, since the bones of the apostles were brought from Alexandria, which reigned in the Adriatic and later in the Mediterranean Sea. Carigrad won and robbed in 1204. Ducal Enrico Dandolo with the great help of the Crusader troops. In the 15th century, Venice had more than 200,000 inhabitants as the center of world trade and the largest port city in the world. At that time it reached its peak. The lavish buildings that resembled oriental patterns have become more luxurious. Nicely new palaces, richly equipped with artists such as Tintoretto, Veronese, Tizian and Giorgione. It is a city with 150 channels and four hundred bridges. Spacing of Venetian republic and trade routes from Venice in the 15th century.