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Venetians have been waiting for this day for many years. Many of them had long since lost hope. They desperately fought against the increasingly dramatic flood levels and dispelled their worst fear as best they could: that Venice might sink into the floods while they were still alive.
But on the morning of July 10 the time has come. The authorities completely blocked shipping in the lagoon when Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte entered a control center on the artificial island of Baccan di Sant ‘Erasmo. The entire Mose flood protection system is being tested for the first time this morning.
When it finally works after all the setbacks, it will completely close Venice from the open sea and block the three entrances from the Adriatic to the lagoon the next time a flood threatens.
Before it starts, Conte speaks again in front of the cameras about the cost explosions, the endless delays, the angry protests in the city.
