Venice was built on a foundation of about 10,000,000 underwater wooden logs, 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice. Before starting to build the palazzi that line the canals, the Venetians drove wooden piles into the ground to make it more solid [1024×1419]
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Whenever I’m reminded of this I always feel impressed at how they really did bling up their crannogs.
I remember that they do not rot in the mud due to lack of oxygen. I wonder what their reaction will be when, a thousand years later, people dig and find 10 million logs underground. They’ll probably think that this place used to be land and that it flooded and buried the trees under mud.
So that visual from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie was factual?!
Better a forest with 10 million trees (now the Po Valley has almost no trees) or Venice?
Children, gather round while I tell you the story of when six dozen Venician dudes, all named Giovanni, heroically saved the city by pounding wood.