Venice - Geography, Demographics and Government
Channel: The Storyteller
Date: 2020-04-29

Venice - Geography, Demographics and Government
Hello! I am the story teller... and today we will talk about Venice. Venice sits atop alluvial silt washed into the sea by the rivers flowing eastward from the alps across the Veneto plain, with the silt being stretched into long banks, or lidi, by the action of the current flowing around the head of the Adriatic Sea from east to west. Subsidence, the gradual lowering of the surface of Venice, has led to the seasonal Acqua alta  when much of the city's surface is occasionally covered at high tide. Between autumn and early spring, the city is often threatened by flood tides pushing in from the Adriatic.


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* Text taken from the English Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice
* Pictures are in the public domain.