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News | Venicegroupservices<\/span><\/h2><\/div>

How Venice was built?<\/span><\/h1>\n

\"How<\/span><\/p>\n

The city of Venice is made up of 118 small islands connected by numerous canals and bridges.<\/p>\n

However, the buildings of Venice were not built directly on the islands.<\/p>\n

They were built, instead, on wooden platforms that were supported by wooden poles driven into the ground.<\/p>\n

History of Venice<\/h2>\n

It begins in the 5th century AD and after the Western Roman Empire fell when barbarians from the north were raiding the ancient territories of Rome.<\/p>\n

To escape these raids, the Venetian population of the mainland fled to the nearby marshes.<\/p>\n

They found refuge on the sandy islands of Torcello, Iesolo and Malamocco.<\/p>\n

Although the settlements were initially temporary in nature, the Venetians gradually inhabited the islands permanently.<\/p>\n

In order to have their buildings on solid foundations, the Venetians first drove wooden stakes into the sandy soil.<\/p>\n

A seventeenth-century book detailing the construction procedure in Venice shows the amount of wood needed for the poles alone.<\/p>\n

According to this book, when the church of Santa Maria della Salute was built, 1,106,657 wooden poles, each 4 meters long, were driven underwater.<\/p>\n

Thus, one can imagine the magnitude of this feat.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/span><\/h2>\n

How Venice was built?<\/h1>\n

Wooden foundations of Venice<\/a><\/h2>\n

The city of Venice: built on wooden foundations<\/p>\n

The use of wood as a load-bearing structure may come as a surprise, since wood is relatively less durable than stone or metal.<\/p>\n

The wooden support in Venice is submerged underwater, so they don’t have oxygen, one of the elements needed by microorganisms to survive.<\/p>\n

Canals of venice<\/h2>\n

In addition, the constant flow of salt water around and through the wood petrifies the wood over time, turning it into a hardened stone-like structure.<\/p>\n

To this day, the lagoon that has protected Venice from countless foreign invaders is the greatest threat to its survival.<\/p>\n

For local Venetians, flooding of the city seems to be a normal phenomenon as the water level rises about a dozen times a year.<\/p>\n

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