interesting facts about venice italy

Venice is made up of a collection of approx 115 tiny islands

There are 400+ pedestrian footbridges spanning the canals

Venice has about 150 canals

There are a little over 400 gondoliers in Venice

Venice got its first female gondolier in 2010

By the 18th century, there were over 200 churches in Venice

Over 15 million visitors flock to Venice every year

Venice has over 450 palaces (palazzi) and important buildings built in a mixture of styles, Gothic, Byzantine, Baroque etc.

Venice is sinking at the rate of 1-2 millimeters a year

You could visit ten thousand times and never run out of new things to discover