The Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici, per il Paesaggio e per
il Patrimonio Storico, Artistico ed Etnoantropologico di Venezia e Laguna
is a peripheral section of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività
Culturali and carries out institutional activities in the municipalities
in its area (Venice, Quarto d’Altino, Musile di Piave, Jesolo, Cavallino-Treporti,
Mira, Campagna Lupia, Codevigo, Chioggia).
These activities are, above all, relative to preservation
and care, through monitoring, regulation of legislative
purviews, activities relative to construction and management of the territory,
such as the maintenance and restoration of buildings
subject to planning restrictions, environmental and landscape modifications,
and examination of the General Regulatory Plan.
The Soprintendenza also carries out the following institutional tasks: