Editing Venice (section)

== Government ==
=== Local and regional government ===
{{See also|Mayor of Venice}}
{{Multiple image
| image1            = Palazzo Corner della Ca' Granda Canal Grande Venezia.jpg
| caption1          = [[Palazzo Corner della Ca' Grande|Palazzo Corner]] is the seat of the Metropolitan City of Venice.
| image2            = Palazzo Ferro Fini Canal Grande Venezia.jpg
| caption2          = [[Palazzo Ferro Fini]] is the seat of the [[Regional Council of Veneto]].
}}

The legislative body of the Comune is the City Council (''Consiglio Comunale''), which is composed of 36 councillors elected every five years with a proportional system, contextually to the mayoral elections. The executive body is the City Administration (''Giunta Comunale''), composed of 12 [[Assessor (Italy)|assessors]] nominated and presided over by a directly elected [[Mayor of Venice|Mayor]].

Venice was governed by [[Centre-left coalition (Italy)|centre-left]] parties from the early 1990s until the 2010s, when the Mayor started to be elected directly. Its region, [[Veneto]], has long been a conservative stronghold, with the coalition between the regionalist [[Lega Nord]] and the [[Centre-right coalition (Italy)|centre-right]] [[Forza Italia (2013)|Forza Italia]] winning absolute majorities of the electorate in many elections at local, national, and regional levels.

The current mayor of Venice is [[Luigi Brugnaro]], a centre-right independent businessman who is currently serving his second term in office.

The municipality of Venice is also subdivided into six administrative boroughs (''municipalità''). Each borough is governed by a council (''Consiglio'') and a president, elected every five years. The urban organization is dictated by Article 114 of the [[Constitution of Italy|Italian Constitution]]. The boroughs have the power to advise the Mayor with nonbinding opinions on a large spectrum of topics (environment, construction, public health, local markets) and exercise the functions delegated to them by the City Council; in addition, they are supplied with autonomous funding to finance local activities.

[[File:Venezia - mappa municipalità.png|thumb|right|Boroughs:
{{Legend|#0000fe|Venezia (Historic city)–Murano–Burano}}
{{Legend|#fe0000|Lido–Pellestrina}}
{{Legend|yellow|Favaro Veneto}}
{{Legend|#008001|Mestre–Carpenedo}}
{{Legend|#ff8041|Chirignago–Zelarino}}
{{Legend|#ff00fe|Marghera}}
]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Boroughs
|-
!
! Borough
! Place
! Population
! President
! colspan="2" | Party
! Term
|-
! 1
| Venezia (Historic city)–[[Murano]]–[[Burano]]
| Lagoon area
| 69,136
| Marco Borghi
| style="background-color: {{Party color|Democratic Party (Italy)}};" |
| [[Democratic Party (Italy)|PD]]
| 2020–2025
|-
! 2
| [[Lido di Venezia|Lido]]–[[Pellestrina]]
| Lagoon area
| 21,664
| Emilio Guberti
| style="background-color: {{Party color|Independent (politician)}};" |
| [[Independent (politician)|Ind]]
| 2020–2025
|-
! 3
| [[Favaro Veneto]]
| Mainland (''terraferma''){{efn|Annexed with a Royal Decree to the municipality of Venice in 1926.}}
| 23,615
| Marco Bellato
| style="background-color: {{Party color|Independent (politician)}};" |
| [[Independent (politician)|Ind]]
| 2020–2025
|-
! 4
| [[Mestre]]–Carpenedo
| Mainland (''terraferma'')
| 88,592
| Raffaele Pasqualetto
| style="background-color: {{Party color|Lega Nord}};" |
| [[Lega Nord|LN]]
| 2020–2025
|-
! 5
| Chirignago–Zelarino
| Mainland (''terraferma'')
| 38,179
| Francesco Tagliapietra
| style="background-color: {{Party color|Independent (politician)}};" |
| [[Independent (politician)|Ind]]
| 2020–2025
|-
! 6
| [[Marghera]]
| Mainland (''terraferma'')
| 28,466
| Teodoro Marolo
| style="background-color: {{Party color|Independent (politician)}};" |
| [[Independent (politician)|Ind]]
| 2020–2025
|-
|}
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=== ''Sestieri'' ===
The historic city of Venice has historically been divided into six ''[[sestiere|sestieri]]'', and is made up of a total of 127 individual islands, most of which are separated from their neighbors by narrow channels only.<ref>[https://web.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-121715-123903/unrestricted/VE15-Isles_Report.pdf Georges Gauthier, David McDonald, Jenna O’Connell, Nick Panzarino: Exploring the City of Islands: Interactive Resources for Analyzing the Islands of Venice. Worcester 2015], linking to [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B_p7yl-zJQKleVdxNFQzUk1RQlk?resourcekey=0-StHTtIWfeqspBpUCDxTviQ Google Drive, darin ''ICQ, Spreadsheets, VE15-Isles_Isles_Lagoon_data'']</ref>

[[File:Sestieri di Venezia.svg|thumb|right|''Sestieri'':
{{Legend|purple|Cannaregio}}
{{Legend|blue|Castello}}
{{Legend|teal|San Marco}}
{{Legend|yellow|Dorsoduro}}
{{Legend|lime|San Polo}}
{{Legend|red|Santa Croce}}
]]
{{Table alignment}}
{| class="wikitable sortable col2center col3right col4right col5right col6right"
|+ ''Sestiere''
|-
! ''Sestiere'' || {{Abbr|Abbr.|Abbreviation}} || Area ({{Abbrlink|ha|Hectare}}) || {{Abbr|Pop.|Population}} (2011-10-09) || Density || {{Abbr|No.|Number}} of islands
|-
| [[Cannaregio]] || CN || 121.36 || 16.950 || 13.967 || 33
|-
| [[Castello, Venice|Castello]] || CS || 173.97 || 14.813 || 8.514 || 26
|-
| [[San Marco (sestiere of Venice)|San Marco]] || SM || 54.48 || 4.145 || 7.552 || 16
|-
| [[Dorsoduro]] || DD || 161.32 || 13.398 || 8.305 || 31
|-
| [[San Polo]] || SP || 46.70 || 9.183 || 19.665 || 7
|-
| [[Santa Croce (Venice)|Santa Croce]] || SC || 88.57 || 2.257 || 2.548 || 14
|- class="sortbottom" style="background-color: #ddd;"
| Historic centre || {{n/a}} || 646.80{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} || 60.746 || 9.392 || 127
|}

Each ''sestiere'' is now a statistical and historical area without any degree of autonomy.<ref name="imagesofvenice.com">{{Cite web |last=Coulling |first=Ian |date=2 November 2020 |title=Districts & Attractions – Introduction |url=https://imagesofvenice.com/districts-and-attractions-introduction/ |access-date=7 July 2023 |website=Images of Venice |language=en-US}}</ref>

The six fingers or phalanges of the ''ferro'' on the bow of a [[gondola]] represent the six ''sestieri''.<ref name="imagesofvenice.com" />

The ''sestieri'' are divided into [[parish]]es—initially 70 in 1033, but reduced under [[Napoleon]], and now numbering just 38. These parishes predate the ''sestieri'', which were created in about 1170. Each parish exhibited unique characteristics but also belonged to an integrated network. Each community chose its own patron saint, staged its own festivals, congregated around its own market centre, constructed its own bell towers, and developed its own customs.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Venice: History Of The Floating City |last=Ferraro |first=Joanne |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2012 |location=New York}}</ref>

Other islands of the [[Venetian Lagoon]] do not form part of any of the ''sestieri'', having historically enjoyed a considerable degree of autonomy.<ref name="www.scoprivenezia.com">{{Cite web |title=Sestieri – Quartieri di Venezia |trans-title=Sestieri – Neighborhoods of Venice |url=https://www.scoprivenezia.com/sestieri |last=Mancebo |first=Ivanka Garcia |access-date=7 July 2023 |website=www.scoprivenezia.com |language=it}}</ref>

Each ''sestiere'' has its own [[house numbering]] system. Each house has a unique number in the district, from one to several thousand, generally numbered from one corner of the area to another, but not usually in a readily understandable manner.<ref name="www.scoprivenezia.com" />