Living in Venice | The City That Has 100 Years Left Before It Disappears | 4K

Venice is sinking 2mm every year. The sea around it is rising at the same rate. Scientists project parts of the city could be uninhabitable by 2150. But before we talk about how Venice dies — we need to talk about how it was born. In 421 AD, Roman refugees fleeing barbarian invasions built an entire civilization on a lagoon of mud and shifting sand. They drove over 10 million wooden piles into the seabed by hand. Those piles didn't rot — they petrified. The city of stone you see today is held up by an ancient forest, invisible beneath the water. For 1,000 years, the sea was Venice's greatest protector. Then it became its executioner. In this documentary, we follow the full arc of one of humanity's most extraordinary cities — from its impossible construction and the golden age of La Serenissima, to the flooding sirens that now dictate daily life and the €7 billion steel barrier on the seafloor that may be humanity's last negotiation with geological time. #venice #AcquaAlta #moses #climatechange #4kdocumentary #WorldsInStone #sinkingcity #ItalyDocumentary #deeptime #BrutalBeauty