History Main / CityofCanals

* ''{{Pokemon}} Heroes'', the fifth ''Pokemon'' movie, was set in a City of Canals called Altomare; the director visited Venice beforehand to scout out the city. Within the games, there's Canalave City.
* There's one in ''[[DotHack .hack]]'', Mac Anu, the first Root Town (city and only areas free of monsters) new players of The World see. It maintains it's presceane in all .hack Media. After the destruction of The World's servers and creation of The World R:2 it has a new design with Steampunk elements though it keeps it's characteristic Canals. When The World R:X is released the design of R:2's version seems to be left intact but without the SteamPunk elements creating a fusion of sorts between the two.

* The DoctorWho story ''The Vampires of Venice'' is set in 16th century Venice.

->''"Help, I'm in Venice! The streets are full of water!"''\\
--'''[[TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]]'''

->''"It's glorious! The streets are paved with water! You could ride a walrus to work!"''\\
--'''Homer Simpson''', ''TheSimpsons''

* Soleanna in the 2006 ''[[SonicTheHedgehog2006 SonicTheHedgehog]]''.

* Soleanna in the 2006 ''SonicTheHedgehog''.

* ''TheSunSoul'' does this with [[{{Pokemon}} Cerulean City]]. It isn't a huge plot device or anything, but it's obvious the author has some kind of love for SceneryPorn.

* The Dutch horror film ''Amsterdamned'' is all about Amsterdam's canals, including a speedboat chase.

* There was one actually called "Canal City" in ''RatchetAndClank 2''.

* Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire, which was located on top of Lake Texcoco in what is now Mexico. However, [[CaptainObvious seeing as it was the seat of power of an ancient Native American culture far removed from anything resembling European culture, it really wasn't anything like Venice.]]

** [[WallBanger Which had catacombs underneath it.]]

* The second act of ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' film takes place in Venice, although some alternate Venice where the Bridge of Sighs is [[DidNotDoTheResearch tall and wide enough to let the freighter-sized ''Nautilus'' pass under it]] and [[WallBanger has long roads suitable for car chases]].

* The ''{{Discworld}}'' RoundRobin ''Flipside'', published in ''The Wizard's Knob'' magazine in the mid 90s, had the city of Venialli, famed for its [[strike: open sewers]] canals.

* In addition, several cities are titled "The Venice of..." because of the identification of this trope with the city. These include Amsterdam in [strike]Holland[/strike] the Netherlands, Hamburg in Germany, St. Petersburg in Russia, Stockholm in Sweden, Ft. Lauderdale in Florida, Birmingham in England, and Recife in Brazil; and of course the Venice of Asia, Bangkok in Thailand.

* In addition, several cities are titled "The Venice of..." because of the identification of this trope with the city. These include Amsterdam in Holland, Hamburg in Germany, St. Petersburg in Russia, Stockholm in Sweden, Ft. Lauderdale in Florida, Birmingham in England, and Recife in Brazil; and of course the Venice of Asia, Bangkok in Thailand.

* The northern water tribe's city in ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is something like this. Only it's made of <i>ice</i> with canals in it.

[[{{ARIA}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aria_canal2.jpg]]
-->''"Help, I'm in Venice! The streets are full of water!"''
-->--'''Groucho Marx'''

-->''"It's glorious! The streets are paved with water! You could ride a walrus to work!"''
-->--'''Homer Simpson''', ''TheSimpsons''

* Subverted in an episode of ''TheDetectives'' where Bob and Dave are in Amsterdam (which also has a lot of canals) but [[CloudCuckooLander ''think'' they're in Venice]].

* The northern water tribe's city in ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is something like this. Only it's made of <i>ice<i/> with canals in it.

* The northern water tribe's city in ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is something like this.

** ''[[TheElderScrollsFour Oblivion]]'' has Bravil. The number of canals is more limited, but contributes well to the city's atmosphere as an impoverished dump.