Tonight on Dateline Kumi Taguchi is in Venice, one of Europe’s best tourist destinations.
But this iconic city is threatened. She meets the locals who say that overtourism they love destroys at 9.30 pm tonight.
On Saturday, SBS also screens a Doco -Special Venice: Building beauty from a swampSaturday 5:30 PM.
Venice, one of the world’s most beautiful cities, was born of a special idea: the desire to build a city in the middle of the water.
Venice comes out of the mud of a swampy lagoon 1500 years ago, it has since succeeded in moving above the challenges of the sea. The founders of the city knew what they were doing: the ruthless threat of the water is also the source of the fortune of the city and the global influence.
But it requires constant vigilance. Over the centuries, Venice has had to come up with and innovate and find new technical solutions to keep the city vital, lively and dry without sacrificing its soul. How did such an unlikely architectural masterpiece like Venice happen in the first place? What groundbreaking techniques have the Venetians developed to make it work? And how will the age -old city keep up the changing times and a changing climate? More than ever, Venetians will have to use a number of exceptional solutions against the rising sea.
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