Venice - Sea Wall?

I have been there several times but never seen a wall. Perhaps its in some special corner. If you there in the winter, the entire place is flooded under a foot of water.

I do not have an answer for you, but you might try posting over on TripAdvisor's Venice Forum. There are a few regular posters on that site who live in Venice, so perhaps they would have up-to-date information on the project.

And, unless you were there in 1966, the "entire place" is never "under a foot of water," winter or not.

But, hey, at least you can't get any traffic tickets in the historic core of Venice.

2guides4venice.com does a lagoon tour that included the MOSE project. You may be able to custom-design a tour with them? Might be a place to start at least! I don't know how much you can actually see though since the barrier panels lie down on the bottom of the lagoon when they aren't needed to block the tidal surge.

Brilliant, thank you!

These are two a pretty good blogs from Venice. Apparently, things aren't going smoothly and the project has all the hallmarks of a first class boondoggle. As with anything involving Venice, its complicated.

http://iamnotmakingthisup.net/category/venetian-environmental-issues/mose/

http://veneziablog.blogspot.com/search?q=MOSE

Awesome Jeff - thanks for sharing.

It sounds like it might be a very interesting current event type tourist attraction! ha!

There is no new wall as such, and there is an existing wall extending pretty well the length of the Lido. It is called the Murazzi and it is massive.

The Mose (as in Moses, parting the Red Sea) is a set of tidal barriers thta lie on the sea floor at each of the three lagoon entries from the Adriatic. The barriers can be raised in the event of a hight tide prediction. There is not a whole lot to see, unless you have a SCUBA set with you.

The Mose engineering is pretty amazing.

Are you talking about the €1 billion unfinished boondoggle that has cost taxpayers €6 billion so far and it's already falling apart because the structure is not surviving the rusting process?

It would be a perfect opportunity to see taxpayers' money at work to enrich the pockets of construction conglomerates and local corrupt politicians who received kickbacks from those companies for those public works contracts.

And with this I don't want to chastise the Italians. We have plenty of bridges to nowhere in America as well, built pretty much for the same reasons.

Yes, Roberto, that's the one! As Peter said, the engineering (idea at least) is the cool part. Corruption, not so much.

jeff " all the hallmarks of a first class boondoggle" is the winning sentence of the day!!