- 200 million tree trunks used (the Salute Church rests on 1,156,627 tree trunks), the Rialto Bridge on 1 million, and the Campanile in St. Mark's Square on 100,000.
- 1 million visitors during the Biennale over 154 days.
- 1 million passersby on Piazzale Roma in just ONE WEEK (measured in 2007)
- 29,254 houses in 6 districts
- 11,654 officially registered courtesans (in 1547), only 23 in 1969
- 3,000 calle (narrow, non-navigable alleys) with a total length of 145 km
- 450 bridges (not quite as many as Hamburg, but more beautiful)
- 177 canals
- 150 church towers
129 doges, of
whom› 8 died of natural
causes› 3 were
murdered› 4 were
blinded› 1 was killed in
battle› 5 resigned›
8 were driven out.
It's not easy being a doge… - 120 islands
Ten years ago, it still existed: house number zero. Unfortunately,
that's no longer the case. It was the address of the Corte dei conti in the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi.
As for whether the number - which was replaced by number 1 - was abandoned because of the ironic implication that the building was full of "zeros," that's certainly just a far-fetched theory. :)