Is Venice flooded or built on islands?
Is Venice flooded or built on islands?

Video: Is Venice flooded or built on islands?

Video: Is Venice flooded or built on islands?
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The official historical myth is that Venice was originally built on 118 islands in the Venetian lagoon.

Almost two years ago sibved published an article Venice. Territories submerged in which he showed how these territories look from space and from an airplane, and also suggested that most likely these territories were flooded after the city was built.

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And on December 30, news agencies reported that due to an abnormally strong ebb, the canals of Venice were left without water, as a result of which what was under water was revealed to the eye. And what do we see?

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And we see confirmation of Sibved's hypothesis that the city was first built and then flooded. In the above photographs, you can clearly see that the houses have feet at the doors, which descend to the bottom of the supposedly canals. At the same time, the bottom of these supposedly channels is lined with paving stones, and even a slope and a drainage ditch are made in the center, which does not make any sense to make at the bottom of the channel.

At the same time, in the last photo we even see that once the building had a door just at the old level of the street, which was flooded and therefore blocked (to the right of the bow of the boat in the center, covered with a blue awning).

Moreover, judging by the age of the houses and the condition of the flooded parts, they were flooded relatively recently. In the region of 200-300 years, no more.

It is also quite possible that both facts take place. Initially, Venice was not built on a few large islands, some of which could be created artificially by dug canals, as we have in St. Petersburg. And only then a cataclysm occurred, as a result of which the water level in the Mediterranean rose, the territory was thoroughly flooded and instead of several large islands, many small islands appeared, and the former streets turned into canals.

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