Unlocked -- The Impossible City: The History of Venice -- pt. 3: Metropolis or Museum?

January 29
1h 17m

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We trace the struggles of Venice, through conquest, revolution, and depression, to fashion a place for itself in the modern world, to channe

We trace the struggles of Venice, through conquest, revolution, and depression, to fashion a place for itself in the modern world, to channel or keep at bay the new floods -- of rising seas, of diseased canals, and of tourist hordes -- and most of all, to somehow square the circle of preservation and modernity.

Image: The Palazzo dei Camerlenghi & Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal in the flood of Nov. 4, 1966

Intro music: Giuseppe Verdi, La Traviata, overture

Closing music: Giuseppe Verdi, La Traviata, brindisi / drinking song
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