How does Venice work?

How does Venice truly function beneath its postcard beauty and floating illusion? This piece takes you behind the scenes, revealing the intricate systems that sustain the city’s fragile balance between water, architecture, and daily life.

Venice is not just a stage set. It is also a city with a resident population, which has productive activities, transportation and services. But how does the “Venice system” work? How do the tides in the lagoon behave? How are the canals formed? And the embankments? What’s under the buildings? Venice Backstage, a project conceived by Insula spa, the operative arm of the City for urban maintenance, is about what happens behind the curtains, to make the fragile beauty of this fantastic city easier to appreciate.
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