What is Venice?
{{Infobox Italian comune | name = Venice | official_name = Comune di Venezia | native_name = {{native name|it|Venezia}}<br />{{native name|vec|Venesia}} | image_skyline = Collage Venezia.jpg | imagesize = 280 | image_caption = A collage of Venice: at the top left is the [[Piazza San Marco]], followed by a view of the city, then the [[Grand Canal (Venice)|Grand Canal]] and interior of [[La Fenice]], as well as the island of [[San Giorgio Maggiore]]. | image_flag = Flag of Venice (1997).svg | image_shield = CoA Città di Venezia.png | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map = Italy Veneto#Italy#Europe | coordinates = {{coord|45|26|15|N|12|20|9|E|region:IT-VX_type:city(270000)|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes = | region = [[Veneto]] | metropolitan_city = [[Metropolitan City of Venice|Venice]] (VE) | frazioni = Chirignago, Favaro Veneto, [[Mestre]], [[Marghera]], [[Murano]], [[Burano]], [[Giudecca]], [[Lido di Venezia|Lido]], Zelarino | mayor_party = [[Courage Italy|CI]] | mayor = [[Luigi Brugnaro]] | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 414.57 | population_footnotes = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://demo.istat.it/pop2020/index3.html|title=Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2020|publisher=istat|access-date=27 February 2021|archive-date=26 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226150144/http://demo.istat.it/pop2020/index3.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> | population_total = 258685 | population_as_of = 2020 | population_demonym = Veneziano<br />Venetian (English) | telephone = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 1 | twin1 = | twin1_country = | postalcode = | istat = 027042 | saint = [[Mark the Evangelist|St. Mark the Evangelist]]