2023-08-03 09:52:55
Tuesday evening, an exceptional tide covered part of the sidewalks of Venice. Venice’s famous Piazza San Marco was covered by a meter of water. This is only the third time that a phenomenon of such magnitude has taken place since 1872.
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Bad luck for the tourists who had come to admire the canals and who had to wade through the alleys in several centimeters of water. The famous basilica in Piazza San Marco, meanwhile, was spared thanks to a glass belt inaugurated a few months ago.
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This installation was precisely intended to protect the basilica, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, against such rising waters. Venice’s anti-flood system, dubbed Mose, was not activated.
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These floods come a few days after the UNESCO recommendation to place Venice as World Heritage in Danger.
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