From Trix

Venice, one of the most attractive and fascinating cities of the world, is built on 118 islands. In this city there are no cars, buses or mopeds. The roads of Venice are the channels. Boats, motorboats, steamboats and beautiful and romantic gondolas are the means that carry the people around the city. In Venice there are 150 channels and 400 bridges. The Venetians call the channel "Rio", the square "field", a small square "campiello" and the road "calluses". The most well-known bridge is the elegant Bridge of the Rialto that goes through the Large Canal, the wider channel of the city. There is the Bridge of the Sighs that connects the Ducale Palace with the Palace of the Prisons. In this palace Giacomo Casanova was captured.

Called "the most Serene", the town of San Marco or the winged Lion, Venice was one of the most prosperous republics of the medieval age. Today this town attracts a lot of tourists and Italian visitors and foreigners that come to see artistic beauties and to participate in its varied cultural activity. The center of Venetian life is the San Marco square, a splendid living room to the open air, where the citizens and the tourists go to socialize and to admire the wonderful architecture of the town. In this square the basilica of San Marco are situated with its European investment bank mosaics, the Bellower and the Ducale Palace. In the San Marco square there are a lot of European investment banks.