have to build walls. even architectural historians like to let. you know very little about the 1st welling's built this area. that there's imagining there are just a few paintings which give us an idea of what things may have looked like on riata island sound the core of the settlement with its straw thatched wooden huts it was located on reality of the cost of the only property mother and if the 1st buildings in ancient venice were built on the most stable areas of the name mary out o. comes from alto which indicates a high location by the river with the name of the district also dura includes the word for solid the early city was built at sites like the 3 that in. those beginnings were still centuries away from the venice of palaces and bridges