Piazza San Marco
Venice is composed of 120 small islands joined together by 455 bridges. Is it reaches Venice from the Mainland by the liberty bridge that accesses to the Piazzale Roma. Since its foundation the city has suffered from periodic flooding. Currently the city is considered grave threat by repeated floods. In spring and autumn the so-called high water (high tide) takes place two times a day and the Piazza San Marco is flooded with water.
The Italian Government is preparing a project, called Moses, to lift a few mobile dikes that would close in case of increase of the level of the sea water. The fact that this last is worrying. Because you can see the waters rising. For example, upon my arrival in Piazza San Marco you could notice as it is was filled with water, so that to enter the Church had improvised a table pasadillo. However, there were plenty of water. Venice is surrounded by little background gaps; that earned him always as a great defense. In its waters encallaban ships who did not know the funds, so easily is that was like a city entrenched within large walls.
The walls of Venice are dangerous sand banks that are almost exposed at low tide. To get from the Adriatic had to know the steps, which in peacetime identified with rows of sticks with lights for the night. When you exit the station, train that I took in Bologna and it takes me two hours to arrive at the central station of Venice, Santa Lucia, one leaves the station and meets the water taxi that lead it to the main places of the city, or simply if you want to walk to the plaza de San marcos, going through all the city can do itbecause it is well signposted, besides that it is busy and all businesses, bridges, you can see the beautiful gondolas passing.