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Pills of Venice’s History.
It’s impossible to understand Venice without knowing its history.
It has been a leading italian indipendent republic, with a long and interesting history of battles, art, scientists and even famous musicians and writets.
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Venice isn’t only San Marco and Rialto, Venice is more… so much more!
For example there are Venice’s islands, and one of them is the colourful Burano.
The name ‘Burano’ has origins from ‘Porta Buranea’ (Buranea’s door) so-called as it is in the North-east, that is the direction where the Bora wind blows.
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Walking in Venice you see amazing palaces rich in history, you see the canals, the boats and all the wonderful environment of the city, but have you ever asked yourself how Venice was built??
It’s unbelievable !!!
The foundations of Venice’s palaces follow the same system of indirect foundation: think of a swamp ; you have to solidify the zone and then put wooden pointed knotty and short poles until you find a hard and compact layer of clay in the soil, called caranto which is located at a dozen meters below the surface soil layer of the lagoon.
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