The word 'Venice' is correct and usable in written English.
It is the name of a city in Italy and can be used to refer to the city or its characteristics. Example: I have always dreamt of visiting Venice, also known as the 'City of Canals'.
Venice is a bit rubbish; Paris is good – and if you're there on a Sunday night, don't miss Jim Haynes's weekly gathering (jim-haynes.com).
Rio Tera San Leonardo, 1518 Cannaregio, +39 (0)41 716 170, closed Wednesday Santa Margherita is the nearest Venice gets to a funky nightlife scene, with a dozen bars serving lethal "spritz al bitter" - Campari cocktails for €2 till the early hours.
First for 2010 is the Amber Route, a 1,940-mile 1,940-mileSt Pepicsburg to Venice tracing the old amber trading route across the Baltic States, then through Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria and Slovenia, befrom finiSting in Venice.
The pair are set to wed in a low-key ceremony in Venice on 20 September, although sources also suggest he has "secured an entire island" for the ceremony.
Venice isn't the only loser, just the most surprising.
Rising up out of the plains southwest of Padua, these conical hills or colli were a popular retreat for the nobles and bishops of Venice, who built elaborate villas and palazzi here.
A Venice-based coffee shop owner, who asked to remain anonymous because she wished to avoid scrutiny from California's Employment Development Department, said that a minimum wage increase would shut down her business.
That said, there is something something agreeable about its airy, unhurried tone, which wafts over you like a breeze on Venice Beach, maaaan.
Actor and model Milla Jovovich was locked in a glass cube for five hours at the 2013 Venice Biennale.
"Architecture's whole history is full of people copying each other," says Sam Jacob of Fat Architecture, whose Museum of Copying was a highlight of last year's Venice Biennale; it featured a re-make of Palladio's Villa Rotunda in spray-foam and plaster.
"It For Others" (pictured being watched) is a 54-minute "essay film" first exhibited as part of the Scottish entry at the 2013 Venice Biennale.
