Behind the celebrated views, Venice remains an inhabited city, and this third part follows it into its ordinary life. Away from the main routes lie neighbourhood campi with their wellheads, canals where deliveries arrive by boat, workshops where gilders, boatbuilders, glassmakers and restorers continue trades bound to the place. Beyond the historic centre the lagoon opens out, with its islands, its fishing grounds, its shallows and channels marked by wooden posts. The programme also addresses the present: acqua alta and the engineering built to hold it back, the fall in the resident population, and the strain of mass tourism on a fragile urban fabric. Filmed in 4K, the film balances the beauty that draws millions with a clear-eyed account of what it costs to keep a city on water alive — a subject of continuing interest to broadcasters worldwide.
