https://mediaforum.net/tags/grand-canal/ Recent content in Grand Canal on Media Forum Hugo en-us Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mediaforum.net/venices-temporary-bridges-which-ones-float-which-ones-stand-on-piles/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mediaforum.net/venices-temporary-bridges-which-ones-float-which-ones-stand-on-piles/ <p>Shoot the Grand Canal at night and you eventually catch something that shouldn&rsquo;t be there. A steel and timber walkway running out over the water on driven piles, X-braced trestles, a truss railing, one sodium lamp doing all the work, a couple standing halfway across looking at nothing in particular. Behind it a Gothic palazzo with its window tracery lit, and further back a lit loggia throwing orange across the black water.</p>