High-water season is back in Venice, Italy, where tourists and Venetians donned rubber boots and walked on catwalks to avoid being soaked in the historical city's flooded streets on Tuesday.

The Italian Society of Authors and Editors, which said Venice’s book stores and libraries were “gravely damaged” by the high water, launched a fundraising campaign. It said one Venice ...

“The water remains in your soul. Venetians say ‘enough,’ and then they go away,” Lombardi says. City officials dispute that. They argue it’s Venice’s high cost of living and not ...

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Late Tuesday, water levels in Venice reached 1.87 meters (6 feet, 1 inch) above sea level, the highest flooding since 1966. The forecast for Sunday was for the high water mark to reach 1.6 meters ...

Much of Venice was left under water this week after the highest tide ... Venetians awoke to sirens indicating that the high waters were expected to exceed 130 centimetres (50 inches), enough ...

Today, the city’s main protection against high tides is the MOSE set of flood ... And famously there’s no lack of saline water in Venice, whose lagoon opens onto the Adriatic Sea.

The city of Venice has long been valued for its ... When that coincides with a high tide, the City of Water gets even wetter, and the water level can rise by 1-2 meters. Two factors are ...

The high water levels are thought to be the result of local tides being affected by a strong winter called The Bora, which affects the region regularly. While flooding in Venice happens four times ...

MILAN (AP) — Venice was inundated by an exceptional high tide Monday, putting three-quarters of the famed Italian lagoon city under water as large swathes of the rest of Italy experienced ...

Tourists in St. Mark’s Square in Venice rolled up their pant legs to wade through flood waters as the lagoon city sounded the first high-water alarm of the season. The sea level topped 44 inches ...