Venice is in Italy.
The Veneti ( in Latin , also Heneti ) were an Indo-European people who inhabited northeastern Italy , in an area corresponding to the modern-day region of Veneto . The Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area ( PATREVE ) or Venice City-Region is the urban agglomeration centred on the cities of Padova , Treviso and Venice in the Veneto region of north-east Italy . The Venetian Lagoon ( Laguna di Venezia Łaguna de Venesia ) is an enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea , in northern Italy , in which the city of Venice is situated . Venice ( [ langˈvɛnɪs ] ; Venezia [ veˈnɛtsja ] ; Venesia [ - vecveˈnɛsja ] ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region .