The Venezians DO have a sense of symbolism: The house #0 in Venice. In fact it is the mal'etage of the Corte dei Conti (by the Rialto bridge), in other words it is the former prison in the cellar of this building...


Venedig in numbers

200 mio. lumbers used for the basements, (the church of Salute was built on 1.156627 mio. lumbers), 1 mio. for Rialto, 100.000 to ground the campanile on the Piazza San Marco.

1 Mio pedestrians per week, counted in 2006 at the Piazza Roma.

29254 houses in 6 boroughs.

11654 officially registered courtesans (in 1547), 1969 there were only 23 left.

3000 Calle (alleys without a canal) with a total length of 145 km.

450 bridges.

177 canals.

150 clock towers.

129 doges, 8 of them died naturally, 3 murdered, 4 blinded, 1 died in battle, 5 resigned, 8 expelled. No office for wimps.

120 islands.

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