Venise : barrage sur le Lido

Blocks of mobile gates, part of the Experimental Electromechanical Module ( = MOSE - Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico) ), a project intended to protect Venice from floods, emerge during technical tests at the "Bocca di Porto" at Venice's Lido, on November 28, 2014. (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images)

 

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 http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet_MOSE