Venice was underwater on Tuesday as heavy ... The system of 78 flood gates, known as Mose, guard the entrance to the Venetian lagoon and are designed to protect the city from tides of up to ...

the enclosed bay where Venice is located. The project, known as Mose, is one of the largest civil engineering endeavors in the world. The design consists of 78 mobile gates stationed at three ...

For three decades, a single idea on how to safeguard Venice and its lagoon from sinking ... Below, watch an animated movie and see how the mobile gates would work. For more on the gates project ...

The MOSE barrier, which Mr Cecconi worked on, is a series of mobile gates which rise up to separate Venice from the Adriatic Sea during winter surges. Venice has always experienced floods when ...

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 12 - The MOSE anti-flooding system has protected Venice from damages estimated to be worth more than 2.6 billion euros over the past five years, the transport ministry said on ...

These barriers have gates that can be raised and lowered ... Besides creating a permanent island, MOSE also helps protect Venice from catastrophic flooding in a time of increasingly erratic ...