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This month, the image of the month is part of the Advent calendar that we have set up!

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Photography and Stereoscopic Research Series and Travel Series

Venice, canal view, 1901, Duclot collection, white_1775

Today we make you travel to Venice in 1901, but not only for the beauty of the place.

December 8 is also World Climate Day. Also, in order to evoke the impact of global warming on natural spaces and sites, Venice is a very good example.

The City of the Doges happens to be seriously threatened by the impact of human activity. The rise of the waters, due to the melting of the pack ice, amplifies a flood problem already existing but more and more frequent (the acque alte,high tides).

In addition, mass tourism has led to many harmful consequences that amplify these phenomena, starting with pollution (soil, water, air, sound, light, due to hydrocarbons, etc.). We all saw it during the Italian lockdown of spring, once the city was emptied of human activity, nature regains its rights.

The city has always been a cultural and tourist mecca. The development of a more important tourism was played out from the 19th century, as Christian Bernadat showed us in his article on Venice on the front page of March, made from our funds: https://imagestereoscopiques.com/a-venise-au-cours-de-la-seconde-moitie-du-xixe-siecle/

Collection Duclot

Bibliography:

https://www.geo.fr/voyage/ces-sites-que-nous-ne-pourrons-surement-plus-visiter-en-2100-198718

The European Heritage Days are approaching! This year, the theme "Heritage and Education" aims to raise awareness among the younger generations.

The front page of September will focus on this subject and in particular on the modifications, disappearances and restorations around historical monuments. You will be able to find it from September 15 on the Stereopole.

In the meantime, here is a stereoscopic view presenting the work of the Saint-Jacques tower in Paris, around 1853-1854.

This tower is in fact a bell tower, the only vestige still standing of the old church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie, built in the sixteenth century. The starting point of the via Turonensis, it was destroyed in 1797.

Paris, restoration work on the Saint-Jacques tower, circa 1853-1854, Calvelo collection, CAL0163

The tower was bought in 1836 by the city of Paris from an entrepreneur who had installed a factory of hunting lead. The architect Théodore Ballu completely restored it; in 1858 the work was completed.

Nowadays, the tower can be visited from June to November.

Collection Calvelo

The picture of the month #34 | December

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