The Italian cities of Genoa and Venice became powerful because they were at the center of the spice trade.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

Professor Yoshino says the Shakespeare play that deals most directly with the law is "The Merchant of Venice."

VOA: special.2011.06.06

A good place for watching unusual-looking people is Venice, an area on the west side of Los Angeles.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

In thirteenth century Italy, the government ordered glassblowers in Venice to move to the island of Murano.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

In the fourteenth century, ships that arrived in Venice,Italy, from areas infected with bubonic plague had to stay outside port for forty days.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The English painter J.M.W.Turner painted "Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute" around eighteen thirty-five.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

For example, the ancient city of Venice,Italy has long been threatened by rising sea levels.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

The building design of ancient homes in Venice, Italy, became the influence for their museum.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

A system of waterways designed after the Italian city of Venice has been built there.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

The award-winning film was first shown at the two thousand eight Venice Film Festival.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The salty water is also destroying Venice's famous buildings and artworks.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

Venice is approaching the dread status of living museum, with a population now below 60,000.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

(Sound) Gondolas and motorboats took part in the event along Venice's Grand Canal.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Twenty million visit the city every year. City officals also point out that there are thousands of unofficial residents of Venice: students and island inhabitants who don't officially register.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Venice is the center of the larger region of Veneto.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

It made its backers rich. Financiers in the Washington,D.C., area also knew what canals meant to cities like Venice in Italy and Tsaritsyn - later called Stalingrad and Volgograd - in Russia.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

"Venice is under attack from the business,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

(Speech) Mario Secchi says he was born in Venice, his dad and grand dad were Venetians, but he was forced to emigrate to the mainland because the rents were too high in the historic center.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

He decided to do this out of his love for the city of Venice and because he thought it was important to put on display the real decline of the population, to raise public awareness.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

The more pessimistic Venetian residents say the countdown has begun and that if the exodus continues at this rhythm, in 2030 Venice will have become a ghost city with no more citizens, just hordes of tourists.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27