- Venice is made up of a collection of approx 115 tiny islands
- There are 400+ pedestrian footbridges spanning the canals
- Venice has about 150 canals
- There are a little over 400 gondoliers in Venice
- Venice got its first female gondolier in 2010
- By the 18th century, there were over 200 churches in Venice
- Over 15 million visitors flock to Venice every year
- Venice has over 450 palaces (palazzi) and important buildings built in a mixture of styles, Gothic, Byzantine, Baroque etc.
- Venice is sinking at the rate of 1-2 millimeters a year
- You could visit ten thousand times and never run out of new things to discover
