The Venice Lagoon, Or Venetian Lagoon (in Venetian Dialect ?aguna De Venesia Or ?aguna Vèneta) Stock Photo

The Venice Lagoon, or Venetian Lagoon (in Venetian dialect ?aguna de Venesia or ?aguna vèneta), is an Italian lagoon in the Upper Adriatic, located along the central-northern and southern coasts of Veneto.It is the largest lagoon in the Mediterranean Sea, with a surface area of ??approximately 550 km², of which 8% is made up of land (Venice itself and many smaller islands), approximately 11% is permanently composed of water or dredged canals and approximately 80% made up of tidal flats or artificial floodplains.The entire territory was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1987.