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Welcome to Venipedia A free, data-driven resource all about Venice, Italy. 19,312 articles about Venice...and growing!

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What is Venipedia? Venipedia is a wiki-based website dedicated to the study of the city of Venice, Italy. It is intended as a repository for unique information and data primarily collected by the Venice Project Center at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. With decades of projects dedicated to the study of Venetian architecture, art, bridges, canals, churches, ecosystems, infrastructure, tourism, transportation, and more, we are now releasing our data to the world through this site. There are already many Venetian resources on the internet, including both the English and Italian Wikipedias and various Italian-language sites. While these resources are adequate for some purposes, there are also some problems associated with these sources. For example, Wikipedia is a general-knowledge encyclopedia that provides neither detailed information nor concrete data. This website aims to fill the gap of of an English-language, data-driven website about Venice. Please check back regularly for updates.

Featured Article: Well This page contains information about a typical Venetian well. For a list of wells, see Wells. A well is a water system built by Venetians to collect and filter rain to be stored as freshwater. Diagram of a typical cistern below a wellhead. Structure A typical well has an underground cistern, a well shaft, drains and a layer of fine river sand between the cistern and the pavement. Well Shaft While functioning as Venetians main water supply, the actual well shaft that extended from the wellhead to the cistern was made from bricks and lined with a layer of impermeable clay. Cistern The cisterns were made with large stones and then lined with impermeable clay that prevented the fresh water from leaking out and more importantly prevented salt water from leaking in and contaminating the water ..→

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