Tag: Basilica

• Thursday, November 14th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Exceptional high tide and sewage causing untold damage in Venice

  

  Dirty water swirls around marble tombs inside the 12th-century crypt of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, which suffered untold damage when an unprecedented high tide swept through the city. Pumps work overtime to clear the seawater from around the altar and under the pink and white stone arches, as the historic monument's custodians look on in sadness and anger.