Venice is a marvelous bliss between sky and water, a city that cannot fail to amaze the visitor and the student. Officially founded on March 25, 421, when the first church of San Giacomo on Rialto Island was built, Venice did not find its stone or cement in its millions of palis of wood planted in the depths of the lagoon. This extraordinary system, the fruit of ingenuity and necessity, transformed a palette into the most fascinating and enduring city in the world. The trees used, sopranos, querce and larici, come from the forests of northern Italy, Slovenia, and the Balkans. Once immersed in the salt water and protected from fish, these trunks do not marcivano but si indurivano, fino to diventare similar to the stone. This is why monuments like St. Mark’s Campanile, the Basilica of Salvation or the Rialto Bridge can be recorded per second: the Rialto, for example, costs around 14,000 pounds, between St. Mark’s Basilica and supports more than 10,000 tree trunks.
The city was born as a refuge: in the 5th century, when the invasions of the Visigoths and the Unti devastated the mainland, the population concentrated on the banks of the lagoon. The shallow water and the fanciful island offered natural protection, and it was at first that it was alone in experiencing, in short, a new, gentle and unique form of civilization. In recent years, Venice has discovered a marinara power, Croatia of trade between East and West, regalandoci palaces marvelous affacciati sul Canal Grande, il quale originally was not an ancient river path.
Venetian architecture has special requirements: Mattoni leggeri for the walls, Istrian stone for the details and foundations, materials carefully selected to withstand the sauce and rhythm. The palaces of the Canal Grande have become the famous founders of the company, which have the commercial function, testifying to the commercial vocation of the city. Non mancano gli esempi rinascimentali e baroque che, con cupole, logge e facciate decor, hanno reso Venezia un symbol of Italian art.
My life has always been sobering on the water. Today, Venice faces the problem of high water and the Innalzamento del Livello del Mare. The city is evacuated by about 15 centimeters in the last second due to the state of the water and the natural movements of the earth. The exceptional tides of 1966 and 2019 demonstrate the fragility of their balance. To protect Venice, the MOSE system was built, a system of 78 mobile parapets that can isolate the lagoon from the Adriatic Sea during high tides. This project, as grandiose as it is controversial, has been resolved due to its environmental impact, but it presents one of the practical solutions to the investment risk.
Despite its challenges, Venice rhymes with a game that attracts millions of visitors every year. Since 1987, it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site and continues to be a symbol of resilience and beauty. Walk through the calli, cross the bridges, admire the palaces in the water, and experience something that doesn’t interest you. Every stone and every canal tells a thousand-year-old story, a story of humankind, of adaptation and harmony with nature. Venice is not just a city; it is an eternal message: the degradation that, even in the most unlikely conditions, man can create an immortal.
