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Featured Article: Well

This page contains information about a typical Venetian well. For information on the history of wells, see Wells

A well is a water system built by Venetians to collect and filter rain to be stored as freshwater.

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

The well shaft is the cylindrical hole extending down from the wellhead into the cistern. Water collected at the bottom of the well shaft once it was filtered and the citizens would retrieve this filtered water from the wellshaft through the wellhead at the top. The shaft was built of semi-porrous bricks, called pozzali, that would filter water as it made its way into the shaft.

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↑ Blackwell, Lewis et al. Preserving Venetian Wellheads. 2000. Pg 21

[1] Blackwell, Lewis et al. Preserving Venetian Wellheads. 2000. Pg 21

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-'''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 [https://www.wpi.edu/ 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.
+'''Venipedia''' is a wiki-based website dedicated to the study of the city of Venice, Italy. Venipedia provides primary Venetian data about specific topics, such as [[Coats of Arms]], that are largely ignored by other sites. To learn more about the purpose, content, and approach that separates Venipedia from other websites visit the [[Help:About|About Venipedia]] page.
-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.
-To learn more about Venipedia's [[Help:About#Venipedia's Purposen|purpose]], [[Help:About#Venipedia's Organization|organization]], and [[Help:About#Venipedia's Content|content]] visit the [[Help:About|About]] page.
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