“Although they’ve become significantly less frequent over the past two decades due to rising sea levels, Venice still sees one to ten low tides every year,” writes The Local‘s Giampietro Vianello.
These conditions are striking, but not unprecedented in Venice’s history of over a millennium and a half. It also shows the contrast with the flooding Venice endured as recently as 2019, which had tourists and locals alike up to their knees in water. The Guardian video above includes, among other dispiriting scenes, a gondolier struggling to maneuver through one of the canals of Venice not quite reduced to muddy ditches.
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