A city that chose the water

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Shallow water is a wall

The Venetian lagoon is a shallow, enclosed body of water behind barrier islands at the head of the Adriatic. Too shallow for a warship, too wet for cavalry, and navigable only by people who know the channels — which, if you live there, you do and an attacker does not.

That is why people settled it. The buildings stand on timber piles driven into the lagoon floor, and the city's ground is largely made rather than found. Venice is not a city that happens to be on water. It is a city that used water as fortification.

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