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Venice lies on a group of marshy islands in the Adriatic Sea, about four miles from the mainland of Italy. The city was founded by people escaping barbarian invasions on the mainland, mainly during the fifth and sixth centuries. By the fifteenth century, a great fleet of merchant ships made Venice one of the wealthiest and most
