About Venice tour guide
Venice An ancient city in Italy, located in Europe, Adriatic coast, surrounded by the sea, consisting of 118 islands, only the northwest corner of a long embankment connected to the mainland, there is a "city of water", "the city of a hundred islands," said. The whole city has 117 large and small rivers crisscrossing the city, relying on more than 400 bridges to connect them. Venice was founded in 451 A.D. and has a history of more than fifteen hundred years. With its beautiful scenery and numerous monuments, including 120 Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque cathedrals, 120 bell towers, 64 monasteries and 40 palaces, Venice is a world-famous tourist destination. With more than 5 million visitors a year, tourism has made this medium-sized city of only 360,000 people very wealthy. The city of Venice is bustling with activity, but there are no cars or bicycles in the city, and there are no traffic lights, the dinghy is the "public **** car". Venice is also famous for its dinghies. Venice is the hometown of Marco Polo, the friendly envoy of Chinese and Italian people. In order to make the people of China and Italy have long established a long-lasting friendship, in March 1980, Venice and China's Suzhou City as sister cities.