Delimitation of the Site

The geographical area of the Site, as included in the World Heritage List in 1987, encompasses the municipal areas along the mainland edge of the lagoon  and coincides with the area defined by the Ministerial Decree of August 1st, 1985, which describes the Lagoon of Venice as an “exceptional environmental and landscape complex” of “significant public interest, a unique example of an environmental system as inexhaustiblr source of aesthetically valuable visual accumulations, with an interpenetrating combination of natural values, ecological rarity and rich archaelogical and historical deposits”.