How is venice supported

Iam a domestic helper and very lucky to visit it twice.. Well explained. I was in Venice once in the year for three days. This article has explained to me what I could not understand for 3 days being physically in the city. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Italy Travel Blog. July 19, Thanks for this beautiful information! I need these kind of information for my school assesment! It is truly a stunning city. The atmosphere is amazing!!! Fantastic article shame I never read it before I visited the amazing place.

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Forgotten Password Cancel. Register For This Site A password will be e-mailed to you. Username E-mail. For faster checkout, login or register using your social account. We use cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. Its uniqueness is due not only to its artistic treasures and its history but mainly to its structure. It is in fact, as everyone knows, a city built on water, also called the Floating City.

Venice was founded starting from the V century AD , when the inland populations resolved to seek shelter from the barbarian invasions mostly Huns and Longobards. The Venetians moved therefore towards the lagoon, that was composed of many small islands Venice is composed by about islands connected by bridges. In order to build the city, they had to roll up their sleeves and strengthen the emerged land, which was muddy and unsuitable for construction of houses and buildings.

But how did they managed to do something like that? Well, the ingenious Venetians used millions of oak poles. The water was contaminated with silt and salt and blasted the underwater wood for years. This has somewhat of a petrifying state on the wood, turning it stone-like at an accelerated pace. Some people have suggested that Venice should be known as the Sinking City and not the Floating City. In the s a series of artisan wells opened across the city. Having been built on a lagoon and surrounded by the salty Mediterranean Sea, the city had always struggled to find drinking water.

To service these wells, holes were drilled deep, past the piles and into the hard clay the piles were standing on. This disruption has dire consequences. By changing and weakening the structural integrity of the wood, the city began to sink at an increased rate. The city was quick to stop once they realised the error of their actions, however, it was too late to undo the damage they had done. Do you want to receive our best offers? Fill in the form and save on your trips!

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