This is seriously disturbing. I mean I theoretically “hate” Venice as much as the next Roman, but there are wacky amateur Byzantinists on-line who are gloating about the destruction because they’re loons who consider this disaster retribution for 1204 and the Fourth Crusade and they’re just ridiculous. We’re losing what may be humanity’s most beautiful city. I, at least, think only Rome and Paris even come close.
Even jokes about this are obscene. And I’m the Greek who theoretically should be relishing our cold-dish revenge. You’re the Franco-Teutono-Visigotho-Norman descendants of the 1204 sackers, looters and murderers themselves. So drop it.
Flooding in Venice – in pictures
Flooding in the canal city has reached its highest level since the 1960s. The high-water mark hit 187cm (74 inches) late on Tuesday, leaving more than 85% of the city under water. In 1966, the highest level recorded was 198cm (78 inches).
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The Doge’s Palace in Piazza San Marco. Venice was hit by the highest tide in more than 50 years late on Tuesday, with tourists wading through flooded streets to seek shelter as a fierce wind whipped up waves in St Mark’s Square.
Photograph: Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images
A tourist carries her luggage in a Piazza San Marco
Photograph: Luca Bruno/AP
The flooded embankment by the Hotel Rialto (left) and the Grand Canal, seen from the Rialto bridge. Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images
People wade through water during the high tide. Photograph: Luca Bruno/AP
St Mark’s Basilica and the Doge’s Palace on the flooded Piazza San Marco. St Mark’s Basilica was flooded for the sixth time in 1,200 years. Four of those inundations have come in the last 20 years, most recently in October 2018. There was no immediate word on any damage inside the church. Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images — In 2018, the administrator said the basilica had aged 20 years in a single day.
Police patrol the flooded Piazza San Marco, which was submerged in more than one metre (3.3 feet) of water. Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images
Employees of the Gritti Palace protect furniture. Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images
The flooded Piazza San Marco. Venice’s mayor blamed climate change for the ‘dramatic situation’ and called for a speedy completion of a long-delayed project to construct offshore barriers.
A room in the flooded Gritti Palace. Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images
A tourist walks near the Rialto bridge. Photograph: Stefano Mazzola/Awakening/Getty Images
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