Veneto Region of Italy
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The Veneto Region comprises the main portion of a larger area that is known as Venetia or Treveneto, which (along with Friuli Venezia and Trentino-Alto Adige) makes up the northeast Italy. The capital of the Region is Venice. Once the heartland of the Venetian Republic, today the Veneto is among the wealthiest, most developed and industrialised regions of Italy. Having one of the country's richest historical, natural, artistic, cultural, musical and culinary heritages, it is also the most visited region of Italy, with about 60 million tourists every year, most of these visitors only make it to Venezia (Venice).
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The Veneto gets its name from the original inhabitants of the area known as the Venetia, who were slowly assimilated into Roman culture. Like many regions of Europe some words and phases of the Venetia language still exist in the Venetian dialect and in the names of some townships and land areas. Before the formation of the Republic of Italy and what we know as modern Italy, this region was controlled by the Republic of Venice for several hundred of years
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With a surface area of 18,387 sq. km., the Veneto is the 8th largest region of Italy(after Sicily, Piedmont, Sardinia, Lombardy, Tuscany, Emilia Romagna, and Aqulia respectively). Its borders covers a total of 1,104 km., 909 of which are land and 195 sea, and they form a polygon, with Cima Vanscuro (adjacent to Austria) being its northern pole and Punto di Goro (the outlet of the Po) its southern pole. The region is some 210 km. Long and about 195 km. wide (from Lake Garda to the mouth of the Tagliamento River).
The Physical geography, of the Region makes it the most complete region of Italy, since it includes a great variety of physical aspects: 29% of the region is mountainous, 14% hills, and the remaining 57% the plain, this gives the region a unique variety of land zones
- an Alpine belt of high mountains (the Dolomites)
- a belt of medium mountains (the Venetian Prealpi)·
- vast zones of hills (including the famous Colli Euganei, Colli Berici and Asolian Hills and the Montello)
- a broad plain with numerous rivers running through it (the Adige, Brenta, Piave, Sile, Livenza, etc.)
- the eastern shore of the largest lake in Italy,·Lake Garda
- broad coastal lagoons (the Lagoon of Venice and the Po Delta)
- over 150 km. of beaches along the Adriatic Sea.
The Veneto·region is divided into seven (7) provinces, Venezia, Vicenza, Verona, Padova, Treviso, Rovigo, and Belluno.
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