Malamocco

The narrative continues into the 9th century.

In 828, two Venetian merchants, Buno of Malamocco and Rustico of Torcello, arrived in Alexandria.

Seeking a powerful relic to elevate the status of Venice, they conspired to steal the body of St.

Mark from its church.

Then, as conditions on the mainland deteriorated, first with the Gothic Wars, later and more decisively with the Lombard invasion, more permanent populations began establishing themselves on higher, more stable islands within the lagoon.

Places like Torcello, Malamocco, and eventually the cluster of islands that would become Rialto.

We don't know the exact numbers involved, we don't know exactly which islands were settled first or in what order, and we don't know precisely how organised these earliest communities were.

What we can reasonably infer is that this wasn't one dramatic exodus, but a slow accumulation of desperate people arriving in small groups over the course of a century or more, each group bringing whatever skills and resources they had managed to save from the mainland.

From a distance in these early centuries the lagoon did not look anything like a city.

It looked like a scattering of specks.

Torcello here, Burano there, Malamocco, Rialto, still just a cluster of low islets, each with its own little church, its own landing place, its own pile-built houses gripping the mud.

And yet, beneath that scattered surface, patterns were forming.

Pippin tried one more appeal to the Venetians, begging them to own themselves his subjects, for are you not within the borders of my kingdom, he said.

we are resolved to be the subjects of the roman emperor they answered and not of you the king was forced to retire this great victory seemed to have the effect of consolidating the venetians effectively they agreed thenceforward to work together for the common cause war had completed the union of venice she had emerged from her trial an independent state there was no more internal discord venetian men and venetian lagoons had made and saved the state the spirit of the waters free vigorous and pungent had passed during the strife into the being of the people this triumph was really the birth-hour of venice and the people look back upon it with joy the victory over king pippin is cherished to this day as one of the finest events in history the venetians realised the peril of the sea from this attack also they realized the peril of the mainland from the hunnish invasion they then effected a compromise and chose as the future home of their state a group of islands midway between the sea and the land then known as rialto but thenceforth to bear the proud name of venice venice in this union of her people declared her nature so infinitely various rich pliant and free that to this day she awakens and in some measure satisfies a passion such as we feel for some person deeply beloved her people then struggled to attain from infancy to manhood for the first time they learned their own power and union gave them strength they began to create their constitution that singular monument of rigidity and durability which endured with hardly a break in its structure for ten centuries they built with vigour and enthusiasm that incomparably lovely city of the sea the aristocracy of venice emerged her empire extended following the lines of her commerce in the east st mark was substituted for st theodore as patron saint the crusades were used as a means to conquer dalmatia and to plant the lion in the greek archipelago venice clashed with genoa and emerged victorious wealth flowed into her state coffers and her private banks the island of rialto proved the advantage of its situation and established a claim for gratitude as the asylum of venice in her hour of need the venetians had seen that the mainland was unsafe and the attack of pippin showed that there was danger on the sea thus experience leading to the choice of the middle point in eight hundred and ten the seat of the government was removed to rialto under angelo badour as doge Rialto became a sacrament of reconciliation between Heraclea and Malamocco.

It was the glory of Venice that of all parts of Italy she alone remained unscathed by the foreign ravages of the fifth century and the conquest of the eighth.

Venice alone was left out of all Italy's ruin.

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madsorbo is connected with burrano by a long wooden bridge there are very few houses here and very few inhabitants the island is given up to flower-gardens and the cultivation of fruit every day boats laden with fruit to be sold at the rialto ascent to venice most of the inhabitants of matsorbu are extraordinarily beautiful and sweet of nature these characteristics are very often found among those whose business is chiefly connected with mother earth gardeners of all nationalities are generally gentle and charming persons san lazaro is where the armenian monks spend their quiet lives happy in the study and culture of their gardens this convent of theirs is a gem of colour set on the lagoon painted a deep crimson and looking like some gorgeous tropical flower there is a terraced walk in the garden and the cloister is rich in flowers and planted with cypress and oleander trees it is a place in which to bask in the sun and watch the crabs fighting with one another on the sloping wall one can see the sun setting behind the euganean hills and watch the first stars appear and the piazza lights shine out Malamocco is not often visited by strangers, yet there is much that is beautiful in the place, and a certain old-world air that fascinates one.

It is a good deal older than Venice, and its people, friendly and clean persons, are always careful to explain to you that they are not Venetians.

Roughly 80% is mud flats, tidal shallows, salt marshes.

It's the largest wetland in the Mediterranean Basin, and it connects to the Adriatic through exactly three inlets: Lido, Malamocco, Chioggia, three doors, and they're shallow.

So the same water that made the city hard to conquer is the water that made it maritime by necessity.

You can't live there without boats.

The MOSE flood barriers.

They were first operated in October twenty twenty.

Mobile gates at the three inlets, Lido, Malamocco, Chioggia.

The same three doors.