[4K] Walking in Venice, Italy (with natural city sounds)

“Venice! A magnificent city! A city with an irresistible appeal to the educated, because of its history as well as its present charms“ ~Thomas Mann Bond visited this unique city at the northern tip of the Adriatic Sea three times. Apart from the Bond-sites you will find a multitude of cultural treasures and pieces of evidence of the city’s glorious past. Venice has lots of narrow alleys and walkways for pedestrians, but lacks wider streets, so cars are a rarity in the city. Venice, contrary to most cities, relies almost solely on boat transportation through the many canals. Even the postal service delivers the mail by boat. Venice is a very fragile city. Its many houses, palazzos and cathedrals are built on wooden poles driven into the muddy ground of a lagoon. Careful studies showed the city of Venice is subsiding on average about 1 to 2 millimetres a year. Add that to the global rising sea level and you better hurry up and visit Venice in Italy while it’s still above sea lev