Malamocco

It is located just south of the island's center and it is part of the Lido-Pellestrina borough of the municipality of Venice.

It was said to have acted as the port of Padua, to which it was connected by the River Medoacus Maior (today's Brenta).

It is likely that its port received ships from Ravenna and that the via Popilia facilitated links with mainland towns.

It was destroyed by the doge Giovanni I Participazio (829–836) when he suppressed a rebellion by Obelerio, who returned from exile and had the support of Metamaucum.

He also notes that John the Deacon wrote that Metamaucus was "surrounded by a beautiful Lido", which implies that the town itself was not on the coast.

It was administered, together with the nearby island of Poveglia, by a podestà who represented the doge locally and was elected for a sixteen-month term.

He was the head of a council of selected families which had the right to nominate local officials from 1339 to the fall of the Republic of Venice.

It has a parish church now devoted to Santa Maria Assunta, but was originally dedicated to Madonna della Marina, "Our Lady of the Sea".

Further along there is Pazza delle Erbe, at the end of which there is an arch which precedes a brick bridge across a canal.

The story of the Madonna of Marina or of the del “Soco” (log) is about a Malamocco man who went to the foreshore to look for the low tide to release wood to burn.

The villagers built a chapel, made a wooden statue of the Virgin and celebrated her on every second Sunday of July.

Between 2003 and 2009 the shores and banks were reinforced and a system for renewing the waters of the canals was put into place.

Later in the 19th century, it was widened to 30–60 m and deepened to 9.5 m. Between 1920 and 1925 the Vittorio Emanuele III channel (28 m wide and 9–10 m deep) was dug to connect the inlet to a new industrial area on the Giudecca island.

[13][14] The MOSE project is a flood barrier system consisting of rows of mobile gates installed at the lagoon inlets which are raised during acqua alta high tides to temporarily isolate the lagoon from the Adriatic Sea.

On the outside of the inlet there is a 1.28 km curved breakwater to slow down the sea currents and create a basin with calm waters to make the ships’ manoeuvre to access to the lock easier.

The structures were built on top of hundreds of concrete pillars in two perfectly aligned rows which kept them at a height of 2 m. This allowed their transport.

A system of 6 rows of rails and 84 carriages was put into place to carry their weight, which ranged between 16.000 and 22.500 tons.

They then were floated, tied to an installation pontoon, dragged to their intended places and stabilised and ballasted so that they could be sunk with a system of cables and hoists.