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Venetian Pool, opened in 1924 as "Venetian Casino," was created from a 4-acre (16,000 m 2) old coral rock quarry, abandoned in 1921. The pool was founded by George Merrick as part of the development of Coral Gables, which was created in Mediterranean Revival style and utilized a large amount of coral for ornamental features of the community.
Venice Lido. / 45.40062; 12.360595. The Lido, or Venice Lido ( Italian: Lido di Venezia ), is an 11-kilometre-long (7-mile) barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon, Northern Italy; it is home to about 20,400 residents. The Venice Film Festival takes place at the Lido in late August/early September.
A view of the pool area. The Belmond Hotel Cipriani is a deluxe hotel on the island of Giudecca in Venice, northern Italy. It is reached by hotel launch from St Mark's Square, a five-minute journey across the lagoon. [ 1] Long considered one of the leading luxury hotels of the world, its room rates begin at USD $1,400 per night.
A venous lake (also known as phlebectasis[ 1]) is a generally solitary, soft, compressible, dark blue to violaceous, 0.2- to 1-cm papule commonly found on sun-exposed surfaces of the vermilion border of the lip, face and ears. [ 2][ 3][ 4] Lesions generally occur among the elderly. [ 5][ 6] Though these lesions may resemble nodular melanoma ...
The Venetian opened with five pools, [14] and the 2003 Venezia addition included another pool deck and the resort's first wedding chapel. [140] [141] Upon its opening, the resort also included the 63,000 sq ft (5,900 m 2) Canyon Ranch SpaClub. [3] The spa was expanded during construction of the Palazzo, bringing it to 134,000 sq ft (12,400 m 2 ...
The school was established in 1911 (then called "Venice Union Polytechnic High School") when classes were held in an old lagoon bathhouse two blocks from the beach. It moved to a new neo-romanesque structure at its present 29-acre campus two miles inland a decade later. A famous statue, installed in 1922 and for which then-unknown Venice High ...
Little Venice is an affluent residential district in West London, England, around the junction of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, the Regent's Canal, and the entrance to Paddington Basin. The junction, also known as Little Venice and Browning's Pool, forms a triangular shape basin designed to allow long canal boats to turn around.
Venice, Los Angeles. / 33.99083°N 118.45917°W / 33.99083; -118.45917. Venice is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles within the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. Venice was founded by Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a seaside resort town. It was an independent city until 1926, when it was annexed by Los ...