Everyone Talks About Water in Venice

The relationship between Venice and water is historically, first and foremost, one of human power over nature, which has resulted in a highly anthropic landscape that recounts the environmental alterations, engineering and architectural challenges, domination, and also adaptation, that the city has exercised for centuries over the lagoon. It is a relationship that has always influenced and marked every other relationship—environmental, cultural, social, and political—and whose marks are part of the very fabric of the city and its past experience.