{"id":22697,"date":"2019-05-18T16:50:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T15:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=22697"},"modified":"2019-05-18T16:50:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T15:50:18","slug":"ever-wondered-how-venice-works-with-124-islands-183-canals-438-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=22697","title":{"rendered":"Ever wondered \u2018How Venice Works\u2019, with 124 Islands, 183 Canals &#038; 438 Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/venice_backstage_180519.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22698\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/venice_backstage_180519.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a>The free online resource <em>Open Culture<\/em> has featured the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venicebackstage.org\/en\/\">Venice Backstage<\/a>\u00a0 exploration of Venice and how, when the tourists leave the city, 60,000 year-round residents stay behind, continuing their daily lives, which requires navigating an archipelago made up of 124 islands, 183 canals and 438 bridges.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Open Culture writes:<\/p>\n<p>3,000,000 tourists move through Venice each year. But when the tourists leave the city, 60,000 year-round residents stay behind, continuing their daily lives, which requires navigating an archipelago made up of 124 islands, 183 canals and 438 bridges. How this complicated city works \u2013 how the buildings are defended from water, how the buildings stand on unsteady ground, how the Venetians navigate this maze of a city \u2013 is a pretty fascinating story. These techniques have been worked out over Venice&#8217;s 1500 year history, and now they&#8217;re explored in a captivating 17 minute video produced by a Venetian government agency. You can learn more about the inner life of this great city at Venice Backstage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/04\/how-venice-works-124-islands-183-canals-438-bridges.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.venicebackstage.org\/en\/\">Venice Backstage<\/a>\u00a0website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The free online resource Open Culture has featured the Venice Backstage\u00a0 exploration of Venice and how, when the tourists leave the city, 60,000 year-round residents stay behind, continuing their daily lives, which requires navigating an archipelago made up of 124 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=22697\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22699,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22697\/revisions\/22699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}