Happy Birthday, Venice (Venice facts #2)

It’s already 26 March as sit typing this at my desk in Sydney, Australia.

But in Venice, it’s still 25 March, and this is the traditional founding date of the city, when its first church, San Giacomo di Rialto was consecrated on the stroke of noon on 25 March 421.

I’m having a spritz in celebration….

 

 

Venice facts - The number of bridges and islands in Venice

If you've been reading my recent posts, you'll know that I've had bridges on my mind.

The other night I got interested in finding out exactly how many bridges there are in Venice.

Well.  

You'd think it'd be easy to find an answer, but Google searching in both English and Italian yielded conflicting results.  

Based on the number of times that I read this answer, it seems to be that there are 117 islands in Venice, connected by 409 bridges.  

What do you think?  
Have you ever counted the number of islands and bridges in Venice?
What answer did you get?