Built on a Swamp means nothing ? LOL
I’ve been to that magnificent city. Built, indeed, on a swamp by refugees from barabrians... the latter couldn’t get their cavalry over the marshy ground and out to the swampy islands in the lagoon. The name means “we go no farther.”Those beautiful palaces churches etc are built on top of wooden pilings that are closing in on being 1000 years old. Supposedly the huge flood control project will prevent this sort of flooding, but it’s been under construction for fifteen years and won’t be done for another four. It’s the Big Dig, European style