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Acqua Alta, Venice: 36 reviews and 45 photos
You will have seen how an important part of Venice is covered with water often above 1 m high, with a maximum of 136 cm, in these first days of December 2010.
Tourists might think that Aqua Alta only happens in the winter. Not necessarily, it can even happen in the summer.
In the nineties we experienced high water in August, 5 -10 cm!
There had been strong raining for some days and one noon at the time of high tide we saw the water coming out of the pavement at the Piazza San Marco. Some streets were also under water just enough to get wet feet.
One expects the water to flow over from the canals but it gushes out of the spaces between the pavings.
When the tide turned to low all the water went back into the ground.
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