Project Moses

Pulling into Venice was amazing.... It was a very foggy day, I don't know if you can truly understand what I mean by foggy unless you have experienced Venice in the fog. 

We were standing on the prow of the ship for about an hour trying to see anything.  Very slowly things began to appear out of the fog.  Venice has a unique problem, there are no streets only cannals.  During very high tides the entire city floods.  The city is slowly sinking into the Lagoon. 

This is the old customs house.  The windows are barely peeking up abouve the water.  The Venetians and the Italian government are building under water gates that can be raised and lowered depending on the tides.  This is called project Moses.  They are hoping in this way to preserve the city.

 

We had to have two tug boats guide us into port.  This is to insure that our gigantic cruise ship didn't cause any damage to the city.