Mark’s Basilica for the first time ever shocked Venetians with the city’s second-worst flood in history. Lashing winds that pushed 1.87 meters (nearly 6 feet 2 inches) of water into Venice in November 2019 and ripped the lead tiles off St. They watched as the neighboring city of Torcello collapsed in the mud, plague-ridden, malarial swamp. Sinking City - Venice: Directed by Caroline Harvey. Mark’s chief caretaker, Carlo Alberto Tesserin talks with AP journalist during an interview, in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Oct. They engaged in complex hydrology projects to shift the flow of rivers. They build up the thin islands that sheltered the lagoon. The city was built on a lagoon, a strategic location in past centuries, and its inhab. Rather, as the French historian Elizabeth Crouzet-Pavan has shown, Venetians knew that the ecology of their lagoon was fragile and that either too much or not enough water flowing in or out could spell their destruction. Documentary on Venice, ''Queen of the Seas'' has only 50 years left to live.

Young Venetians had skipped school to join the global youth climate strike, holding placards with statements such as If climate was a bank. Friday 15 March was a rare day in Venice: on the concourse in front of the Santa Lucia train station, Venetians outnumbered tourists. The sixth-century Roman statesman Cassiodorus described the Venetians gorging themselves on fish, harvesting salt, and living in 'scattered homes, not the product of Nature, but cemented by the care of man into a firm foundation.' As Venice transformed politically first into a colony of Byzantium, then an independent city-state ruled by hereditary rulers, then an oligarchical republic, and finally into an empire with holdings across the seas, its residents understood that their fate would be determined at least in part by their relationship with the natural world, though not in simple or harmonious terms. Sinking city: how Venice is managing Europes worst tourism crisis. Venetians have always recognized that human choices would shape their relationship with the natural world.

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