jhfa14-+Architecture+of+Venice+and+the+Sistine+Chapel

=**The Architecture of Venice during the Renaissance Age**= The Canals:
 * Venice is a true architectural wonder in terms of what it took to build it.
 * The city is built upon a gathering of a 100 low-lying islands in the middle of a large lagoon.
 * The early Venice was built with a waterproof stone called Istria.
 * These were constructed upon rafts made of wooden logs driven deep into the muddy clay in order to make a sturdy, waterproof, foundation.
 * The Majority of the canals in Venice are actually completely natural
 * The bottoms of these usually consisted of sand and mud.