Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Venice and its Lagoon' has mentioned 'Sea' in the following places:
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Ravenna and Venice were connected only by sea routes, and with the Venetians' isolation came increasing autonomy. | WIKI |
[30] With the elimination of pirates along the Dalmatian coast, the city became a flourishing trade center between Western Europe and the rest of the worldxe2x80x94especially with the Byzantine Empire and Asia), where its navy protected sea routes against piracy. | WIKI |
Vasco da Gama's 1497xe2x80x931499 voyage opened a sea route to India around the Cape of Good Hope and destroyed Venice's monopoly. | WIKI |
Venice sits atop alluvial silt washed into the sea by the rivers flowing eastward from the alps across the Veneto plain, with the silt being stretched into long banks, or lidi, by the action of the current flowing around the head of the Adriatic Sea from east to west. | WIKI |
In May 2003, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi inaugurated the MOSE Project (Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico), an experimental model for evaluating the performance of hollow floatable gates; the idea is to fix a series of 78 hollow pontoons to the sea bed across the three entrances to the lagoon. | WIKI |
Climate data for Venice Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Average sea temperature xc2xb0C (xc2xb0F) 9.9(49.8) 8.7(47.7) 9.9(49.8) 13.4(56.1) 18.6(65.5) 23.4(74.1) 25.4(77.7) 25.4(77.7) 23.6(74.5) 19.3(66.7) 16.0(60.8) 13.2(55.8) 17.2(63.0) Mean daily daylight hours 9.0 10.0 12.0 14.0 15.0 16.0 15.0 14.0 13.0 11.0 10.0 9.0 12.3 Average Ultraviolet index 1 2 3 5 7 8 8 7 5 3 2 1 4.3 Source #1: seatemperature.org (avg. | WIKI |
sea temperature)[72] Source #2: Weather Atlas[71] | WIKI |
Venice at the time was a rich and prosperous Maritime Republic, which controlled a vast sea and trade empire. | WIKI |
In this inland sea that has continuously been under threat, rises amid a tiny archipelago at the very edge of the waves one of the most extraordinary built-up areas of the Middle Ages. | UNESCO |
These include an integrated system of public works, such as the mobile flood gates (MoSE - Experimental Electromechanical Module) to temporarily isolate the lagoon from the sea and some complementary measures capable of reducing the level of the most frequent tides in the lowest areas on the water. | UNESCO |