The Venice's... Las Venitzias!

You know how people like to build up places, give them a name relative to some desireable location... well, the other day, I heard the Ol' This city is the Venice of such and such... and I was thinking.. how many times have I heard this before.. decided to make a list just to get it out of my head:

Venice, the Venice of Venice, Italy.. the real one...

Venice, California     The famous funky beach town of LA.. gentrification may be rocking away inland, but the beach is still pure funky.. Italians would appreciate it.. named after a set of canals that a developer dug out from a nearby estuary... went from classy to ghetto to back to classy...

Mexcaltitan, Nyarit, Mexico 'The Venice of Mexico' Having spent a night there, I can't claim it swims in Renessaince Class, but it does swim in community... it's a cozy little place, and way out in the middle of these huge swamps along the pacific I never even knew existed.
http://weburbanist.com/2012/05/22/mexican-venice-the-man-made-island-city-of-mexcaltitan/

Paraty, Brazil   'The Venice of Brazil'   I got here before Twilight, just so you know... so named because streets flood at high tide in this UNESCO world heritage old Portugese mining town inside a bay inside a jungle.. it's cool beans...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/94223363@N02/9121124445/in/photostream/

Birmingham England
The Venice of England.. seriously? yup.. Canals were built for transportation during the industrial revolution.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_of_the_North

• Amsterdam^[1]
• Bruges^[2]
• Copenhagen^[3]
• Giethoorn^[4]
• Hamburg^[5]
• Henningsvær^[6]
• Manchester^[7]
• 's-Hertogenbosch^[8]
• Saint Petersburg^[9]
• Stockholm^[10]