VENICE: The City the Sea Is Slowly Taking Back | 4K Travel Documentary

Venice was never supposed to last. In the fifth century, refugees fleeing the collapse of Rome drove millions of wooden trees into the mud of a salt lagoon and raised a city where no city should stand. Sixteen hundred years later, that improbable settlement had become the richest maritime empire in Europe, and today the same sea it once ruled is rising back through its streets, while the people who built it vanish, from more than one hundred and seventy thousand residents to under fifty thousand. In this documentary, discover how Venice was built on a buried forest, how its foundations survived a thousand years underwater, why a blind Venetian leader once turned a crusade into the sack of Constantinople, and how the city now holds back the rising Adriatic with seventy-eight steel gates hidden on the lagoon floor, and why, even now, no one knows if Venice will survive the century. Take a breath. Stay a while. ▶ See More European & Island Documentaries: ICELAND:    • ICELAND: The Country Built on a Volcano Th...   FAROE ISLANDS:    • FAROE ISLANDS: How People Live at the Edge...   ▶ Subscribe:    / @whereonearth4k   #Venice #TravelDocumentary #Documentary #WhereOnEarth #Italy #Lagoon