Name: Finding The Real Venice | The Fascinating True Story of Venice, Italy
Uploaded: 2022-08-16T18:00:33.000Z
Duration: 15 min 56 s
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and this is La Serenissima, Venezia, Italia.

Venice is unlike any other place on earth..

inspired artists and fascinated travelers.

and now it's at risk of being swallowed by the sea.

who've recently launched their Visa for Venice program to promote

responsible tourism in one of the world's greatest cities.

we're taking you deep into the story of Venice.

How does a city as magnificent as Venice ever come to be?

Of all the places in the world you could build a city,

one of a hundred and eighteen islands in the Venetian Lagoon.

with marauding Germanic tribes burning, looting,

Locals on the mainland had two choices: flee or die.

refugees from mainland Italy started to arrive here

and settle amongst the local fishing villages.

They were protected from danger from an impenetrable moat, the lagoon.

This island,Torcello, was the first place that they settled

driving large wooden pilings into the mud

to elevate their shelters from the tidal waters,

This is Saint Mark's Square, the heart of cultural,

religious, and political life here in Venice.

In 697 the Venetians, all the people of the lagoon,

banded together to elect their first "doge,"

and the doge's would rule for 1100 years,

helping Venice become a maritime power in the eastern Mediterranean

and last longer than any other republic in history.

named after the patron saint of the city, Saint Mark.

His remains were actually in Alexandria in Egypt until

828 when a group of local merchants hatched a plan

to relocate his remains to the city of Venice.

St. Mark's remains were just one of many artifacts looted

from the Near East and brought here to Venice to

the largest bridge spanning the Grand Canal and

connecting to Sestieri of San Marco and San Polo,

the two namesakes of Venice's most famous son:

Rialto is the commercial and financial heart of Venice.

they would be in quarantine for 40 days just off the island.

They'd sail by St.Mark's Square up the canal

and they would dock at Rialto to unload their goods in

Venice prospered because of its strategic location on the Adriatic,

but in order to protect that lucrative advantage that they had,

The "arsenale" was like the Area 51 of the Middle Ages,

a top-secret, state-run shipyard building the finest military vessels

of the era at a rate of almost one per day,

It was like Industrial Era production efficiency in the Middle Ages

allowing them to project their military all the way far east of the Mediterranean.

with the classic Venice tradition, "cicchetti."

It's kind of like Venetian tapas, glass of wine,

and we have a nice selection of traditional cicchetti.

And you know, it's a good place to reflect on Venice so far.

I think Venice brings people from all over the world

to try to get a taste of the Venice lifestyle.

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