Why does Venice have the reputation of a water city?

Venice is a beautiful water city, built in the most impossible place-water. The amorous feelings of Venice are always inseparable from "water", winding water lanes and flowing blue waves. It is like a romantic dream floating on the blue waves, and its poetry lingers for a long time. This city once had the most powerful manpower, material resources and strength in Europe. The history of Venice began in 453 AD. At that time, farmers and fishermen in Venice turned to this Adriatic island to avoid the cool nomadic people who loved swords. Venice looks like a dolphin. Its urban area is less than 7.8 square kilometers, but it is composed of 1 18 small islands. When the 177 Canal was as dense as a spider's web, these islands and the canal were connected by about 350 bridges. The whole city is connected with the Italian mainland peninsula only by a long dike.

Venice is a city in the northeast of Italy. The urban area includes an island in the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy and a neighboring peninsula. Venice has the reputation of many canals and water towns. The streets in the old city of Venice are narrow and pedestrian, and cars are forbidden to enter. It is the largest car-free area in Europe. The population in 2003 was 274,000.

history

The establishment of Venice can be traced back to 568. At that time, northern Italy was invaded by Lombardy, and many refugees fled to Venice. In the 8th century, Venetians rebelled against the imperial expansion of Ping Pei III and attached themselves to the Byzantine Empire. After that, Venice became more and more powerful. After the decline of the Byzantine Empire, Venice's autonomy gradually increased, and finally gained independence, and the Republic of Venice was established (from the 9th century to18th century), ruled by the Doge of Venice. Venice * * * and China had powerful maritime military forces at that time and were one of the important bases of the Crusade. In addition, Venice was also an important commercial (especially spice trade) and art center in the Renaissance.

1may 797 12, Venice was occupied by French Napoleon and lost its autonomy for hundreds of years. Later, Napoleon handed Venice over to Austria in June 1797+12 10 according to the Treaty of Campo Formio. The Austrian authorities officially took over Venice on June 6, 2008. 1805, Napoleon signed the Treaty of Burroughs with Austria, taking Venice back from Austria and merging it into his own Italian kingdom. 18 14 years, with the defeat of Napoleon, Venice was ruled by Austria again. 1866, Venice became a part of modern Italy.

1966165438+1October 4th, the spring tide flooded into the ancient city of Pailu, and the water depth of St. Kyle Square fell below1.2m. More than 5,000 people were made homeless and countless works of art were destroyed by floods, and the number of floods in that year was as high as 100.

traffic

/kloc-in the 9th century, a long railway embankment connected the northwest of Venice's main island with the Italian peninsula, bringing its own railway station to Venice. In the 20th century, long highways and parking lots were added. The northwest of Venice's main island has thus become the entrance of railways and highways to Venice. However, vehicles are prohibited from entering Venice.

Venice has narrow roads and criss-crossing canals. Besides walking, water transportation is the main mode of transportation. Among them, "gondola" is the most representative and traditional water vessel in Venice. But now Venetians usually use the economical water bus to cross the main waterways of the city and other small islands in Venice.

Kyle Polo International Airport, Venice's international airport, was built on the Italian peninsula on the other side of Venice.

Scenic spots/tourist attractions

1987, Venice and its lagoon were listed as world cultural heritage. Famous tourist attractions include:

St. Kyle Square.

Duke palace

rialto bridge

outstanding

Kyle Poirot (1254- 1324), a traveler.

Titian (1477- 1576), painter.

Vivaldi (1678- 174 1), a musician.

China Daily News: Mentioning Venice, a water city, can't help but remind people of Kyle Poirot, a merchant of Venice and a famous traveler described by Shakespeare. This world-famous town is located in the northeast of Italy, east of Milan 160 miles, and is known as the "Pearl of Adriatic Sea". However, Venice, gorgeous as glass and fragile as cicadas, has sunk at an alarming rate in the eyes of people all over the world. In order to save the city from being submerged by seawater, scientists put forward two rescue methods: building flood gates, injecting seawater into the ground and raising the whole city of Venice.

* * * The sunken "Pearl of the Sea" Venice, a world-famous aquatic city, consists of 1 17 islands in the center of Venice lagoon and finally flows into the Adriatic Sea. The origin of Venice can be traced back to AD 452, when people came to the lagoon island to escape Attila's invasion. Since then, the natural barrier of water has protected them from generation to generation and allowed them to breed safely on the island.

Water used to be the patron saint of Venice, but now it has become Venice's biggest enemy. Many factors, such as continental plate drift, global warming and rising sea level, and people's extensive exploitation of groundwater, have caused the whole city to sink by 23 cm in the past hundred years. Experts predict that this sinking speed is still increasing, and it only takes 50 years to sink 23 cm. Now, the center of Venetian life-St. Kyle Square is only 30 cm above the warning water level. Every winter, there are about 60 floods here, and the incidence of floods is six times that of 100 years ago.

* * * Flood sluice and seawater injection into the ground.

In order to prevent this beautiful and ancient city from completely sinking into the water, Venetians began to build a flood control sluice code-named "Moses" in 2003. They will build 79 floating sluices at the entrance to the lagoon. When the water level is normal, 300 tons of sluices are full and still at the bottom of the water. Once the water level exceeds the warning line 1 m, air will be injected into the sluice, water will be discharged, and the sluice will float with it. The whole project is expected to be completed in 20 1 1. However, as far as stopping Venice from sinking is concerned, this measure alone is far from enough.

Therefore, Gambolati, a scientist from the Italian University of Padua, put forward a bold plan to inject seawater into the ground and raise the whole city of Venice by using the technology commonly used in the oil industry. According to The Times reported on July 23rd, Gambolati predicted that this project would inject 654.38+08 million cubic meters of seawater into the ground every year in the next decade, thus raising the whole city by about 30 cm.

According to Gambolati's plan, seawater will be injected into the gravel layer 600-800 meters below the lagoon, which will be 40-50 meters thick. Because the gravel layer is protected by the clay layer which is not easy to penetrate water, the seawater will only lose laterally, which is why Gambolati insists on continuous water injection 10 years.

At present, this plan has been widely concerned by people. The Venice authorities will allocate special funds for the feasibility study of this plan next week. An engineer who participated in the discussion said that if this plan is feasible, "it will greatly alleviate the impact of sea level rise on Venice in the next few years".

Venice looks like a dolphin. Its urban area is less than 7.8 square kilometers, but it is composed of 1 18 small islands. When the 177 Canal was as dense as a spider's web, these islands and the canal were connected by about 350 bridges. The whole city is connected with the Italian mainland peninsula only by a long dike.

The amorous feelings of Venice are always inseparable from "water", winding water lanes and flowing blue waves. She is like a romantic dream floating on the blue waves, and her poetry is lingering for a long time.

This city, which is less than 8 square kilometers, is cut into more than 100 islands by more than 100 cobweb canals. The islands are connected by various bridges at will. When you first arrive, you will soon get lost in this "water city". Fortunately, there is an S-shaped Grand Canal running through the whole city. You can enjoy Venice along this so-called "longest street in Venice".

Essence is not worried about getting lost. There are nearly 200 palaces, mansions and 7 churches along the coast, most of which were built in the 14 to 16 century, with Byzantine style, Gothic style, Baroque style and Venetian style. All the building foundations are submerged in the water, which looks like an art gallery rising in the water. On weekdays, the Grand Canal is really like a busy street, and all kinds of ships shuttle through it. Of course, the most unique is gondola.

Although the patron saint of Venice and the symbol of the city is the winged lion in St. Kyle Square, in people's minds, when it comes to Venice, people will naturally think of gondola, which shuttles through the water lanes. This is a crescent-shaped black gondola. Hundreds of years ago, Venetian nobles liked to ride the beautifully carved gondola decorated with silks and satins to fight for each other's wealth. In order to stop this luxury, the Venetian government issued a decree prohibiting gondola from being painted in color. As a result, gondola, which once competed for beauty, has become a black ship that people see today.

For an hour's ride in gondola at night, you can take the "water bus" around Venice for 30 times, but even if it is expensive, how can you give up the extreme romance of a night trip to Venice? At night, the moonlight is reflected on the water. After a noisy day, the river was calm again, and gondola moved quietly on the silky blue waves. The moss-covered roots of the ancient walls on both sides exude a special moist smell, as if reaching out and touching. The river is rippling and the ships are rippling, which makes people imagine that they have returned to Venice with brilliant art hundreds of years ago. They are princes and nobles, and they are going to the masquerade ball by gondola. Only the Venetian boy who is boating can bring people back to the real world by shouting at the corner of a narrow water lane.

There are bridges everywhere where the ship travels. There are as many as 350 bridges in Venice, the most famous of which is the Bridge of Sighs. This is a closed baroque bridge connecting the governor's office and the prison. As for why this bridge has such a helpless name, there are different opinions. There is a saying that when a condemned man walks across the bridge of sighs, he can't help sighing deeply when he sees his girlfriend in the opposite house hugging his new lover through the window of the bridge. The Bridge of Sighs is named after it. Whether this legend is reasonable or not, at least now the Bridge of Sighs has become a place where lovers witness love, and countless couples have staged scenes of love here, which can be regarded as a scene of Venice.

The romance of Venice is a bit sad, and the land in Venice is sinking because of excessive groundwater pumping. Coupled with the periodic tides, Venice, which is beautiful because of water, is slowly being eroded by floods. How long will she be beautiful for our world? This is beyond our control. What we can do is to get close to her, appreciate her and fill our hearts with romantic feelings before leaving.