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The Nuova Mala del Brenta (NMB), also known as New Brenta Mafia or Venetian Mafia, is a criminal organization based in the Veneto region of Italy. The group is believed to have emerged in the late 1990s as a successor to the original Mala del Brenta, which was active in the area during the 1970s and 1980s. The criminal organization's structure ...
The following is a list of the municipalities (comuni) of Veneto, Italy. [ 1 ] There are 563 municipalities in Veneto (as of January 2019): 61 in the Province of Belluno. 102 in the Province of Padua. 50 in the Province of Rovigo. 94 in the Province of Treviso.
The Regional Government of Veneto (Giunta Regionale del Veneto) is the executive of Veneto, one of the twenty regions of Italy.The Regional Government, which has its seat at Palazzo Balbi on the Grand Canal, is led by the President of Veneto, who is elected for a five-year term, and composed of the President and ten Ministers (Assessori), including a Vice President.
The Venetian Lagoon at sunset. Veneto (US: / ˈvɛnətoʊ, ˈveɪn -/ VEN-ə-toh, VAYN-; [ 3 ]Italian: [ˈvɛːneto]) [ 4 ][ 5 ] or the Venetia[ 4 ] is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the north-east of the country. It is the fourth most populous region in Italy, with a population of about five million. Venice is the region's capital ...
Castelfranco Veneto was the birthplace of the painter Giorgione, and the cathedral, named il Duomo (1723), located inside the walls, contains one of his finest works, the Madonna with St. Francis and Liberalis (1504), but more commonly called Pala del Giorgione. In the background, the towers of the old town may be seen. [4]
Location of City of Vicenza in Veneto. City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto is a World Heritage Site in Italy, which protects buildings by the architect Andrea Palladio. UNESCO inscribed the site on the World Heritage List in 1994. [1] At first the site was called "Vicenza, City of Palladio" and only buildings in the immediate ...
The Venetian independence referendum of 2014 was an unofficial, non-binding, online and privately organised poll held among residents of Veneto, one of the 20 regions of Italy, 16–21 March 2014. The vote, known also as the "digital plebiscite" or " Plebiscito.eu ", was promoted by Plebiscite 2013, a Venetian nationalist organisation led by ...
The Regional Council of Veneto ( Consiglio Regionale del Veneto) is the regional parliament of Veneto . The council, which has its seat at Palazzo Ferro Fini, located along the Grand Canal in Venice. [1] was first elected in 1970, when ordinary regions were established, twenty-two years after the Italian Constitution envisioned them in 1948.