How Venice Was Built On a Swamp

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Жыл бұрын

Building a city on a lagoon has its challenges. Here's how the citizens of Venice accomplished this task centuries ago.
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@jacobpugpoirier3350
@jacobpugpoirier3350 5 ай бұрын
This was one of the first question before I went to bed. So I had to search it up
@jenny_whatstheproblem
@jenny_whatstheproblem 2 ай бұрын
same
@lucasimmsjames3992
@lucasimmsjames3992 24 күн бұрын
same
@trevorgoodchild666
@trevorgoodchild666 Жыл бұрын
okay now with this secret i can go high seas and build my own country!
@jeffdavis5723
@jeffdavis5723 Жыл бұрын
*Yeah sure, go ahead and do it‼️* 🤷🏼‍♂️ 😆😂🤣😜
@kaypz
@kaypz Жыл бұрын
Hahaha
@nemod3338
@nemod3338 Жыл бұрын
Well, you need gold for starters. Lots of it.
@anunayasingh3621
@anunayasingh3621 11 ай бұрын
Somebody already built it in the 1970s
@boulevard14
@boulevard14 3 ай бұрын
Unfortunately swamps and lagoons are not at the high seas.
@nemod3338
@nemod3338 Жыл бұрын
Very informative. Could be a bit longer, and more into details.
@argiberico
@argiberico 10 ай бұрын
Sticks in the mud, then wood and then stone on top. How can it be more simple?
@guywilliams6569
@guywilliams6569 9 ай бұрын
Not when you're FAKING a story... when that happens, less IS more...
@kellydalstok8900
@kellydalstok8900 Жыл бұрын
Amsterdam was also built on wooden poles.
@giovanniscg8540
@giovanniscg8540 6 ай бұрын
Amsterdam is the discount version of Venice, that's why you see such similarities
@ChrisPeck-niganma
@ChrisPeck-niganma Жыл бұрын
Short and sweet
@PiotrBajbak
@PiotrBajbak 9 ай бұрын
If you stress many poles together they get the job done. I can confirm that since I am from Poland 😅
@changwani1
@changwani1 3 ай бұрын
Umer is a legend
@hetedeleambacht6608
@hetedeleambacht6608 8 ай бұрын
how cool is that, i guess amsterdam was built the same way
@donweaver1600
@donweaver1600 7 ай бұрын
How did they bash logs into the ground
@rizalanshari6780
@rizalanshari6780 9 ай бұрын
You should see how borneo people build cities on a swamp
@dentindahousee9635
@dentindahousee9635 6 күн бұрын
There has to be more to it than that! Wood doesn’t last that long underwater for this many years… Or wet mud.
@TheCommunicationCoach
@TheCommunicationCoach Жыл бұрын
I always wondered how Venice 'floated,' and while this is incredible, it does not bode well for their future in our rising sea levels. Using the sea as a sewer is not workable for much longer, either, as well as being disgusting. All those people in the canals and gondolas floating through sewage water. Gross.
@NaticzkaKaminskaHenryDolphin
@NaticzkaKaminskaHenryDolphin Жыл бұрын
True. Also, Venice is already gross, with the trash left by tourists floating in all directions in the canals. I've seen it with my own eyes and it was a long time ago. Maybe they clean it better these days but read it's still a problem.
@TheCommunicationCoach
@TheCommunicationCoach Жыл бұрын
@@NaticzkaKaminskaHenryDolphin People rarely "improve," and tourist are often just big messy "pigs."
@NaticzkaKaminskaHenryDolphin
@NaticzkaKaminskaHenryDolphin Жыл бұрын
@@TheCommunicationCoach Amen, facts.
@FMmffmFM
@FMmffmFM Жыл бұрын
Try to say that to people dead 1300y ago, i can give you some numbers 😂
@marsmarv
@marsmarv Жыл бұрын
People that do promote climate "change" still have and enjoy their bazillion $ worth beach mansions...
@GaisSacredCreations
@GaisSacredCreations 2 ай бұрын
Much better way of building that has lasted for centuries than building a home on a sandy bluff facing the ocean...
@alibongo51
@alibongo51 2 ай бұрын
Isn't limestone permeable?
@AnnoraEksteen
@AnnoraEksteen Ай бұрын
maar word die houtpale toe nie vrot daar onder in dei modder nie ?
@dertythegrower
@dertythegrower Жыл бұрын
Also... all of Florida pretty much.
@sikimasio
@sikimasio Ай бұрын
Poland Stronk
@gremlin5813
@gremlin5813 8 ай бұрын
Wouldn't the wood poles decompose over time? Wouldn't the city sink?? 😱
@hetedeleambacht6608
@hetedeleambacht6608 8 ай бұрын
well actually its quite the opposite, they say the salty mudwater keeps the poles from decomposing, evenso in amsterdam. its when waterlevels drop and the poles come in contact with the air they start to decompose and houses will start to crack
@FMmffmFM
@FMmffmFM 5 ай бұрын
No, the wood calcify therefore it becomes stronger. If I'm correct it's water+ oxigen that cause wood decomposition
@AnnoraEksteen
@AnnoraEksteen Ай бұрын
😲
@ezeee595
@ezeee595 8 ай бұрын
Only Italians are capable of building such an architectural masterpiece in the middle of a swamp. No other nation will ever measure up to them.
@daniemelk
@daniemelk 7 ай бұрын
The entirety of the Netherlands would like to speak to you
@ezeee595
@ezeee595 7 ай бұрын
@@daniemelk is it anywhere near as beautiful as Venice? I think not.
@daniemelk
@daniemelk 7 ай бұрын
@@ezeee595 Absolutely not but at the very least it's not flooding
@ezeee595
@ezeee595 7 ай бұрын
@@daniemelk the original design did not take melting ice caps and rising sea levels into account. I think we can forgive them for that one tiny oversight.
@josiprakovac3284
@josiprakovac3284 6 ай бұрын
Venetians are not Italians. Venetians are Venetians. The Italians were created in 1861. by some kind of decree or proclamation...
@dobees8183
@dobees8183 7 ай бұрын
Visit in Venice. It's not all that 1. It's sinking, it won't last another 100 years. 2. It stinks. Algae and mosquito infested canals are everywhere. Stagnant water in many places. 3. Its expensive. $30 for a cup of coffee in St. Marks. 4. It's crowded. About a million tourists per day, pickpocketing everywhere, expensive souvenirs.
@mirko8740
@mirko8740 6 ай бұрын
1 Yes Better visit now 2 What can u expect from a marsh sfortunately all the sewage go into the canals 3 Like every touristic city and i dont like saying as (venetians) but tourist are higher charge beacause they dont understand well the price especially chinese and japanese who are tend to have higher value in yen or yuan so they think 30 for a caffè is less. 4 Like every tourist city has this problem but its more crowded also beacause the city is small the tourist per day are like the triple of local who live there so phisically u dont have much space
@aleale6277
@aleale6277 4 ай бұрын
Venice has always been sinking, venetians just kept building higher using flooded floors as new foundations. You can't do that anymore though.
@ambautconiace6196
@ambautconiace6196 2 ай бұрын
Stop crying little crybaby
@ronkirk5099
@ronkirk5099 Жыл бұрын
Subsidence due to groundwater pumping, lack of new silt replenishment, sea level rise due to global warming. Venice is being hit from all sides.
@autentico3284
@autentico3284 Жыл бұрын
all countries have been using this form of construction for 4,000 years
@KanaidBlack
@KanaidBlack 6 күн бұрын
Kinda remind me of mexican chinampas, just a little
@TheSummoner
@TheSummoner Жыл бұрын
Italians do it better!
@scapegoatiscariot2767
@scapegoatiscariot2767 Жыл бұрын
Italian supremacist, why am I not surprised. That's not even something to joke about, it never was. What if someone were to tell you that God's people do it better? The Hebrews, Israelites, Jews and modern day Israelis, they're chosen, they're better. What if someone were to tell you that? Would you still say that Italians do it better? I do hope I'm wrong about this and you were actually joking with no malice. If so, great. But this is the context that many will hear it in.
@TheSummoner
@TheSummoner Жыл бұрын
@@scapegoatiscariot2767 My comment came from a fleeting moment of national pride prompted by seeing the images of a cathedral we built on top of a literal swamp, which I decided to express through a phrase that was intended to be taken more in a tongue-in-cheek way than as an attempt of asserting some untenable Italian supremacy. To be honest I'm now curious about why you are not surprised about seeing online someone you assumed was an Italian supremacist (are you implying the equally untenable generalization that all Italians are supremacists?) and the odd example you made about Jewish people (by the way I would be as offended by someone saying "God's people do it better" as I would be by someone saying "Italians do it better" if they are both saying it seriously)
@scapegoatiscariot2767
@scapegoatiscariot2767 Жыл бұрын
@@TheSummoner Then I was wrong. I apologize and I'll retract my statement. I personally believe that racism has a natural genetic core that must be overcome in modern man. That's just my belief. Others believe that racism is taught. I do not believe it is necessary to teach it. I feel quite certain that one can be hateful and dishonest enough to come by it naturally. The very fact that we would (and I would as well), make a racial joke like this, shows how embedded it is in our social and personal psyche. Please forgive me for being a troll but this issue strikes much sensitivity in me. I'm a white man who lives in the white supremacist south. I experience racism from both white and black here and I despise it.
@TheSummoner
@TheSummoner Жыл бұрын
@@scapegoatiscariot2767 I now see where you are coming from and is a completely understandable position, I hope no one will take my comment too seriously but in that case they now have our conversation to read to properly understand what I meant
@scapegoatiscariot2767
@scapegoatiscariot2767 Жыл бұрын
@@TheSummoner I agree. The statements should remain for the good they may do. I wish this happened more often on the internet.
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