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- Venice rests on 118 islands separated by 150 canals
- There are 417 bridges, and 72 of those are private.
- It is built on wooden piles instead of directly on the surface of the islands. There are over 100.000 wooden stilts beneath the islands, which originally served as the foundations for the fishermen's houses who founded Venice.
- Venice is sinking at the rate of 1-2 millimeters a year.
- It was an independent city-state for over 1,100 years.
- There are about 350 gondolas and 400 gondolieri in Venice. On average, gondolas are 11 meters long and weigh around 600 kg.

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