Exceptional high water levels
in November caused over three million euros in damage to
Venice's famous St Mark's Basilica.
Another 841,000 euros of damage was caused by strong winds on
November 12.
Carlo Alberto Tesserin, who oversees the team responsible for
the church's management, said that "I am not as concerned with
the extra years of life that the Basilica may lose due to
incidents like this, which will surely be repeated, as I am by
the fact that, in a Basilica that is over 900 years old, we are
now in a situation in which we must make up for the years wasted
after (floods in) 1966."
A plan is being assessed to protect the Basilica from further
damage of this sort.
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