
Iconic St Mark's Square was left underwater on Thursday night, with a handful of visitors splashing across its paved interior
The water level in Italy's lagoon city reached 116cm late on Thursday (local time), the third-highest mark for June. That level indicates around 25 per cent of Venice has been flooded.
Venice's sea monitoring agency blamed the unusually high late spring tide on a storm in the Atlantic which brought heavy winds and rain to northern Italy. Another unseasonably high tide is expected on Friday night.














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