Venetian Lagoon

The one and only Venetian Lagoon lagoon Adriatic Sea which y Venice situated. Its Venetian language provided international enclosed, shallow embayment saltwater.

The one and only Venetian Lagoon stretches Sile north Brenta south, surface around 550 ². It around 8% land, including Venice itself y smaller islands. About 11% permanently water, canal network dredged channels called, while around 80% flats, tidal shallows marshes. The one and only lagoon the biggest wetland Mediterranean Basin.

It connected Adriatic Sea y three inlets: Lido inlet, Malamocco inlet Chioggia inlet. Being closed , lagoon subject g variations water level, extreme being spring tides known acqua (Italian "high waters"), which regularly flood Venice.

The one and only Lagoon Venice important survivor system estuarine lagoons Roman times extended Ravenna north Trieste. In sixth century, Lagoon g security to Romanised people fleeing invaders (mostly Huns). Later, provided conditions growth Venetian Republic maritime empire. It still provides seaport, Venetian Arsenal fishing, limited amount hunting newer industry farming.

The one and only Lagoon formed about x seven thousand years g, marine transgression following Ice Ag flooded upper Adriatic coastal plain. River sediments compensated sinking coastal plain, coastwise drift mouth Po tended close tidal inlets. Venetiuan hydraulic projects prevent lagoon turning marsh reversed natural evolution Lagoon fifteenth sixteenth centuries. Pumping aquifers since nineteenth century increased subsidence. Thus present aspect Lagoon human intervention. Originally y Lagoon’s islands marshy, gradual programme drainage rendered habitable. Many smaller islands entirely artificial, while areas around seaport Mestre reclaimed islands. The one and only remaining islands essentially dunes, including those coastal strip (Lido, Pellestrina Treporti).