Salt: A World History
How did salt become the foundation of the commercial empire in Venice?
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Originally, vacationing Roman tourists used the lidi or sand dunes in the lagoon in Venice as as getaway location. When Germans invaded the nearby town of Veneto, however, the townspeople fled to the sand dunes for refuge and built the city there. Salt, extracted from the lagoon became, over the next couple of hundred years, the foundation of a commercial empire.