Venice on Nicola Iarocci https://nicolaiarocci.com/tags/venice/ Recent content in Venice on Nicola Iarocci Hugo -- 0.143.1 en Produced / Written / Maintained by Nicola Iarocci since 2010 Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:45:00 +0200 The crazy engineering of Venice https://nicolaiarocci.com/the-crazy-engineering-of-venice/ Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:45:00 +0200 https://nicolaiarocci.com/the-crazy-engineering-of-venice/ <p>We spent a weekend in Venice<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> a short while ago, and one of the things that caught my attention was the wells in the city&rsquo;s squares. Is there fresh water underneath that brackish swamp water? Well, no. The water from the wells in Venice is rainwater, collected by an ingenious hydraulic collection system that leveraged the square and surrounding buildings.</p> <p>I learned this and other intriguing tidbits by watching <a href="https://youtu.be/77omYd0JOeA">The Crazy Engineering of Venice</a> on YouTube.</p> We spent a weekend in Venice1 a short while ago, and one of the things that caught my attention was the wells in the city’s squares. Is there fresh water underneath that brackish swamp water? Well, no. The water from the wells in Venice is rainwater, collected by an ingenious hydraulic collection system that leveraged the square and surrounding buildings.

I learned this and other intriguing tidbits by watching The Crazy Engineering of Venice on YouTube.

  1. We were in Venice on a sailing trip, but that’s for another post. ↩︎

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