Why is Venice a pedestrian city?

Venice today is a pedestrian city. Wherever you want to go, you'll have to walk, at least part of the way. Most tourists end up walking until their feet are sore.

Ancient Venice — at the time of the Serenissima — wasn't like that at all. It was more than anything, a boating city. If you needed to go to another part of the city back then, chances are that you had to take a boat to get there.

Modern Venice has more roads and fewer canals than ancient Venice.

Venice of yore simply didn't have the full road network need to get around. The canal network served that purpose.

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Malamocco, Matemauco, Metemaucum — Lessico Veneto

"Malamocco, Matemauco, Metemaucum" from the Lessico Veneto (1851) by Fabio Mutinelli, translated by René Seindal.

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Austrians entered Venice

OTD in 1798, Austrian troops entered Venice.

The short dream of a democratic republic was dead, killed by the same Napoleon who had instigated if.

Venice wouldn't be independent again for another fifty years.

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Daghe adosso, Nino!

An Austrian admiral giving orders in Venetian, in a naval battle against Italy, which eventually led to Venice becoming Italian

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Modern Venice

After the end of the Republic of Venice, the city has been under a series of different foreign states.

Venice was under Austrian-Hungarian control 1798--1805, then under Napoleonic rule in the period 1805--1815. After the Congress of Vienna, Venice was returned to the Habsburgs of Austria.

It remained under Austria — in the form of an Austrian controlled Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia — until 1866, with a brief interlude in 1848--1849 with the revolutionary Venetian Democratic Republic.

Since 1866, Venice has been part of Italy — initially under the Kingdom of Italy, which included the fascist period, and then under the Republic of Italy from 1948 until now.

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Daghe adosso, Nino!

An Austrian admiral giving orders in Venetian, in a naval battle against Italy, which eventually led to Venice becoming Italian

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Strada Nova – the end

The Strada Nova was not a single project but rather a series of incremental changes which became the start of mass tourism in Venice

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From SS Apostoli to Rialto

Strada Nove #7: The part of the Strada Nova between Campo SS Apostoli and Rialto has seen comparably fewer changes, just a bit here and there

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