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Why is Venice called the Water City?

Venice is a beautiful water city, built in the most impossible place-water. The amorous feelings of Venice are always inseparable from "water", winding water lanes and flowing blue waves. It is like a romantic dream floating on the blue waves, and its poetry lingers for a long time. This city once had the most powerful manpower, material resources and strength in Europe. The history of Venice began in 453 AD. At that time, farmers and fishermen in Venice turned to this Adriatic island to avoid the cool nomadic people who loved swords. Venice looks like a dolphin. Its urban area is less than 7.8 square kilometers, but it is composed of 1 18 small islands. When the 177 Canal was as dense as a spider's web, these islands and the canal were connected by about 350 bridges. The whole city is connected with the Italian mainland peninsula only by a long dike.

The construction method here is to first lay large wooden stakes on the underwater silt, one by one, which is the foundation. After the stake is firmly nailed, the board is laid and the house is built. All the houses here are built like this. So some people say that there are stones above Venice and forests below. In order to build Venice, all the forests in northern Italy were cut down. Such a house, don't worry about underwater wood rot, will not rot, and will become harder and harder, and will become stronger and stronger for a long time. Archaeologists have excavated Kyle before? 6? 1 Boluo's former residence, the excavated wood is as hard as iron, and only when it comes out of the water will it rot.