Venice is a city built on 118 small islands in a lagoon in Italy. To build the city on the islands, Venetians drove wooden poles into the mud and laid horizontal planks and stone on top to form foundations. Some of Venice's most famous landmarks include St. Mark's Basilica and the Ponte di Rialto bridge. Venice is renowned for its art, architecture, and culture and is considered the center of European art and architecture.

1. THE CITY OF CANALS “VENICE”
Name: Chayon Dav Nath
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Institution: Chittagong University of
Engineering and Technology
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2. WHERE IS VENICE ?
Venice is a city in Italy, built upon a group of 118 small island that
are divided by channels and linked together with bridges.
 Area: 414 km²
 Population: 261,905 (2017)
 Age : Over 1200 years
 Climate: Humid subtropical
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3. HOW WAS VENICE BUILT ON WATER?
To make the islands of the Venetian lagoon fit for
habitation, Venice’s early settlers needed to drain areas
of the lagoon, dig canals and shore up the banks to
prepare them for building on.
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4. SO HOW DO YOU BUILD A CITY IN THE SWAMP?
The Venice lagoon is all mud. There is no rock to
construct on, not even soil. So, if you want to build
stone houses and palaces that weight hundreds of
tons you have to follow an ingenious and through
strategy.
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5. VENICE WAS BUILD BY-
 Driving long pointed poles of wood.
 Oak, larch, or pine, straight down into the seafloor.
 Horizontal planking were laid out.
 Over that, they put layers of stone.
These made up for the foundation of the city. This
method is ancient, but the Venetians improved and
developed it.
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6. MOST FAMOUS PLACES-
-Piazza San Marco
-St. Mark’s Basilica
- Ponte di Rialto 6

7. WHAT IS VENICE BEST KNOWN FOR?
Widely considered to be the center of European art
and architecture, Venice’s culture can be enjoyed
throughout the city in many ways. They are known
for their-
 Art
 Architecture
 Literature
 Music
 Cinema
 Bridges
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8. SOME INTERESTING FACT ABOUT VENICE-
→The first woman in the world that graduated was born in
Venice in 1646.
→The first public casino in the world was opened in Venice in
1638.
→Venice is sinking at the rate of 1-2 mm a year.
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9. THANK YOU!
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