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Venice and the lagoon

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venice and the lagoon

venice and the lagoon

The  lagoon of Venice                                 Venice is a miracle of ingenuity and beauty. A city bulided in the middle of the lagoon,on the mud,slime and sand,a  landscape of inospitability.Simbol of freedom   had no defense but the lagoon, no palace guards except the “arsenal” workers and no gun markets.In the middle of feudalism and barbarism Venice was a symbol of democracy and  civilization.

The hinterland populations took refuge on the inhospitable lagoon in the 6th century b.c. threatened by barbaric invasion .The fall of the Roman Empire had opened the doors  of the invaders, in front of which the population sees in the lagoon last posibility of survival, here, where the intricate network of channels could be sail only by those who knew the unseen cours of wather. For centuries the lagoon had the role of defensive wall of the city of Venice because it was almost imposibile to cross.

  http://www.comune.venezia.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/EN/IDPagina/1?53aac2fc7d9fc                                                                         venezia mapa

The  first settlements were made in the        archipelago around of the isle of high         stream, which later took the name
of “rialto” and that becames the epicenter of the development of nowdays Venice .The early Venetians were boatmen,sailors eager to move into the lagoon and ready to sale fish and salt .The salt was a source of enrichment for the Venetians.

                                                                                                                                             But what is most surprising is the building on the water. For centuries, Venetians have
persevered in dificult challenge to snatch from water even the smallest piece of land. From the very beginning , the rise of the city due to the miracles of engineery and inteligente by
builders. The Venice buildings lies on long poles introduced in the mud.The first thing the poles was pounded until reached layers of earth hard and rezistente. More layers of wood  formed a bed and get  resistance of more poles possible . On this basis,was builded the structure of brick or marble. That is the true stilts , but in some cases they felt a slight       situation of instability, and today buildings are visibly wry.

By   http://dipoco.altervista.org/

the basis of the buildings

the basis of the buildings

 

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