{"id":21574,"date":"2022-06-25T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T07:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/?p=21574"},"modified":"2022-06-27T09:05:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T16:05:05","slug":"water-world-a-different-way-to-live-452-a-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/water-world-a-different-way-to-live-452-a-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Water World – A Different Way To Live 452 A.D."},"content":{"rendered":"

It is the barbarians that the world has to thank for the birth and the creating of a legendary city of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a scene of rape and pillage.\u00a0 <\/span>Houses torched, crops stolen or burned, and hasty graves for bloody corpses scratched out of the earth.\u00a0 <\/span>This was the legacy of Attila\u2019s Huns, sweeping across northern Italy and wreaking havoc and destruction on the remnants\u00a0 <\/span>of the Roman Empire.\u00a0 <\/span>But they unintentionally left another, more positive legacy as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Refugees fled from burning cities, desperate to find safe refuge.\u00a0 <\/span>Some literally took to the swamps, finding sanctuary in a desolate group of islands in a marshy lagoon off the northern Adriatic Sea.\u00a0 <\/span>When the Huns were followed by other invading tribes, more Roman citizens streamed to the swamps to avoid the carnage and destruction on the mainland.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the next few centuries the inhabitants transformed the inhospitable surroundings into an architectural wonder: Venice!\u00a0 <\/span>With more than 400 bridges and almost 200 different canals, it became a center of trade and a seafaring power.\u00a0 <\/span>Venice was completely built out of misfortune, but it eventually turned into one of the richest and most beautiful cities in the world.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Harsh necessity can be the Mother of Glorious Invention.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The City of Venice, Italy was built on 118 islands two and a half miles from the mainland.\u00a0 <\/span>Its streets are a precarious few inches above sea level, and are currently sinking at a frightening rate, about one inch every ten years.\u00a0 <\/span>Efforts are under way to protect the city from being overcome by the ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n

The gondolas that dot the waterways of Venice have been around for at least a thousand years, with the first known mention of them coming in 1094.\u00a0 <\/span>They evolved over the centuries, and it wasn\u2019t until the 1700s that they finally assumed the form familiar today.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most famous of all bridges within the city of Venice is called the Rialto Bridge.\u00a0 <\/span>It is a high arching covered bridge always packed with people and\u00a0lined on both sides of the walkway with vendors of all types and kinds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Venice is a romantic city, where many Hollywood movies have been made and where even today many young newly weds honeymoon.\u00a0 <\/span>Most all of these new marrieds have had their picture taken by a passer by holding each other in their arms while standing on the peak of the Rialto Bridge\u2019s arch.<\/span><\/p>\n

The great Roman Statesman, Cassiodorus asserted in a letter to the officials of the City of Venice circa 537 A.D.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cYou people live like sea birds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And now you know more about how an old swamp land turned into a world class trade center.<\/span><\/p>\n

Learn More, Know More, and Become More……………..<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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