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Acqua Alta
High Tides and Flooding in Venice
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ABOVE: Plastic boots for sale in the Piazza
San Marco.
Related Web links
Venice
Travel Blog: Acqua Alta
The "Flooding" category of our
Venice Travel Blog has photos,
firsthand reports, and advice on what to expect and do during acqua alta.
City
of Venice: Acqua Alta (High Tide)
This English page from the Comune di Venezia offers more insights into the
acqua alta phenomenon. The city's Italian-language
acqua alta forecast page may also be useful. (Click
here and scroll to the "Scarica i segnale" links to hear sample
acqua alta sirens and warning tones in MP3 format.)
SAL.VE
Safeguarding of the Lagoon of Venice has information on
what the city and the Italian government are doing (or talking about doing) to
protect the city, the laguna, and the local ecosystem from subsidence and
rising water levels.
Venice Against the Sea: Flood Zone
This interactive National Geographic map can be
excruciatingly slow to load, and some parts of the historic center aren't shown, but
the map gives some idea of where the most flood-prone areas of the
city are. (Slide the yellow-orange bar up or down on the color-coded map legend
to view flooding at different tide levels.)
Italy Heaven:
Venice Floods: 1st December 2008
This eyewitness account by a
British writer describes an unusually high acqua alta several years
ago.
Also see Google's
acqua alta video results, especially the dramatic
German
video clip and the YouTube video of an
acqua alta in 2005.
Next page:
Alta Acqua photos:
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