Tourists crowd the many outdoor restaurants under canopies along the Riva degli Schiavoni, a waterfront beside the lagoon leading to St. Mark’s Square

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Tourists crowd the many outdoor restaurants under canopies along the Riva degli Schiavoni, a waterfront beside the lagoon leading to St. Mark’s Square in Venice in the Veneto region of northern Italy. The city is built on wooden platforms that were supported by centuries-old wooden stakes driven into the ground in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea off the east coast of northern Italy. Venice has no roads but a thread of weaving canals connected by pedestrian bridges. Its palaces are of either Gothic or Renaissance-designed architecture.

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Location: Venice, Veneto region, northern Italy
Photo credit: © richard sowersby / Alamy / Afripics
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