venice italy, venice metropolitan area, venice districts, venice centre, venice suburb, venice tourist places
The City of Venice
The metropolitan area with a thousand magic faces!
Venice, centred at the heart of its Lagoon, on the Adriatic sea, spreads over a vast metropolitan area (457 km2) which can be divided into the following eight zones:
- The historic city itself
- The islands of the Lagoon
- The Lido beach
- The Cavallino beach
- The boroughs on the mainland
- The Riviera of Brenta
- The Gate Eas (or eastern hinterland)
- The Gate West (or western hinterland)
The ancient city in the Lagoon has about 70,000 residents, the islands roughly 32,000 and the populations of the mainland districts total 175,000.
Business activity on the mainland consists almost exclusively of the service industries, such as public administration, and those connected more or less directly to tourism, by far the most important in terms of value, including commerce and craftsmanship, (circa nine and a half million visitors a year).
