>Venice Was Not Built on Solid Ground...>It was built on millions of wooden piles driven deep into the seabed.Since the year 421 AD, this floating city has defied both time and engineering logic.While most cities rise upon rock or concrete, Venice stands upon a submerged forest of timber.Specifically, alder wood — a type that doesn’t rot underwater.Buried in clay and soaked in saltwater, it doesn’t decay; it petrifies, turning harder and stronger over the centuries — almost as tough as stone.>A timeless marvel that continues to support an entire city.>The Campanile of St. Mark’s alone rests on 100,000 wooden piles —each one hand-driven up to three meters deep into the lagoon floor.>But why build a city on water?>In the early 5th century, Italy was under siege by barbarian tribes.>Fleeing from invasion, people sought refuge in the muddy marshes of the Venetian lagoon.>The water became their wall — a natural fortress no army could easily cross.>And so, amid the mud and mist, Venice was born.>Not as a city that conquered nature —>but as one that learned to live in harmony with it.>Venice does not float by chance.>It floats by ingenious design, necessity, and the enduring will of a story that refuses to sink.
But if you eventually have to replace all the pilings and no original ones remain, is it still the same city?
>>2949950Most ancient cities are naturally piles
>>2949948You must be a human to post on this website
>>2949958Clearly not since indian threads are allowed
>>2949948fun fact: no artifacts exist prior to 1000AD to show anything Christian, Muslim or Jewish.Its all fakes, re-branded pagan, mis-interpeted or books written from other books.None of it would fool Rick from Pawn Stars.
>>2949993Source: a shiny blue meth crystal told me so
>>2949993You're half way there but way off. try adding some gunnar heinsohn to your theories
>>2949948Isn't the whole city slowly sinking?
Venetian here >>2949950Piles in the mud don't degrade, it's an anaerobic environment that's not conducive to microbial life, at least the one that eat wood.>>2950055Yes, but not because of the weight of the city itself: in the early XX century, because of the rapid industrialization of the nearby industrial port there was a rapid growth in population and to meet the water demand they went for the lowest hanging fruit and they pumped water from the acquifer beneath the city until the 1970s when it was banned. Since then there was a slight improvement in the piezometric level of the acquifer. Also, in the last few decades, cruise ships visiting the city fucked it up just due to their water displacement (then there was the pollution from their engines, but that didn't cause the city to subside).
