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Venice

West Coast

Florida

USA

Downtown Venice (Venice Avenue West)

Venice is a city in Sarasota County, Florida. Venice, Florida has been listed in many publications as being the "Shark's Tooth Capital of The World". It hosts an annual festival, the Shark's Tooth Festival, every year to celebrate the abundance of fossilized shark's teeth that can be found on its shores. In addition to finding shark's teeth on beach shores, many large sized teeth can be found freediving off of the coast or by excavating in the many shell deposits that are left over from the dredging of the Intracoastal Waterway. Beach renourishment efforts also brought new sand from a few thousand yards off the coast, yielding new, but fewer, fossilized shark's teeth. The teeth in the area can vary in size from an eighth of an inch to 3 inches and, on occasion, even bigger. A good place to look is on the very south end of the island part of Venice, known as Caspersen's Beach.

Venice Avenue in Venice, Florida

Closest Airport:
Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport
Airport Code:
SRQ
General Location:
Located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast. Much of the land mass of the state is a large peninsula with the Gulf of Mexico to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.

Venice sunset

Local Motto or Saying:
In God We Trust
Nickname:
The Sunshine State

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Chamber of Commerce Info:
http://www.venicechamber.com/
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