History Main / CityofCanals

Besides Venice, a number of real cities do actually have canals--Amsterdam is the second most-famous Western example -- though most lack Venice's aesthetics due to their most common, ahem, industrial function.

* There's one in ''Franchise/DotHack'', Mac Anu, the first Root Town (city and only areas free of monsters) new players of The World see. It maintains its presence in all .hack Media. After the destruction of The World's servers and creation of The World R:2 it has a new design with {{steampunk}} elements, though it keeps its characteristic canals. When The World R:X is released the design of R:2's version seems to be left intact but without the steampunk elements, creating a fusion of sorts between the two.
* ''Manga/{{ARIA}}'' is set in the city of Neo Venezia, a copy of the original, with exact duplicates of some of the more famous landmarks, on a terraformed Mars and the source of a lot of [[SceneryPorn beautiful imagery]].
** The choice of Mars for this is something of a HistoricalInJoke: due to a faulty translation of observations by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, it was believed for quite a while that Mars had [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_canal dry canals]] belonging to some dead civilization.
* There was a Venice-y city called Aquroya in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', which was sinking so fast they didn't expect it to be there in five years' time.

%% * The "Sad Country" in ''Literature/KinosJourney'' seems to consist of a city like this.
%% * Ginko of ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'' visits one in the story "Hidden Cove."

* The island Water 7 in ''Manga/OnePiece'' is modeled after Venice, down to the canals and festival costumes. But exaggerated.

* New Venice from at least the early [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'' comics; an American town that had suffered permanent flooding and decided to go the canal route.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Drowntown}}'', London has become one, although not intentionally -- parts of the city have flooded due to GlobalWarming, but the city is still fully inhabited.

* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' RoundRobin ''Flipside'', published in ''The Wizard's Knob'' magazine in the mid 90s, had the city of Venialli, famed for its open sewers ... er, canals.

* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' prequel, ''ComicBook/LabyrinthCoronation'' starts with a human baby Jareth being kidnapped from Venice and brought to the Labyrinth. Jareth's predecessor, The Owl King has the Labyrinth as a City Of Canals.

* Film/JamesBond went three times to Venice:

** In the climax of ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', Bond and Vesper go on vacation to Venice, but it turns out Vesper betrays him by handing the huge sum of money he won at the Casino Royale tournament to [[NebulousEvilOrganization Quantum]] agents there. Bond follows her, a fight erupts with said agents inside a building, and said building sinks when the buoys get shot.

* The 2003 remake of ''[[Film/TheItalianJob2003 The Italian Job]]'' begins with the eponymous caper pulled off in Venice.

* In the Israeli film ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaumilch_Canal Blaumilch Canal]]'', a lunatic named Blaumilch who steals a jackhammer and drills in the middle of Allenby Street (a major street in Tel-Aviv) and the bureaucracy is in such chaos they start believing he was actually authorised by someone; eventually, this leads to a variation of this Trope in the climax: [[spoiler:Blaumilch destroys the roads infrastructure so that the Mediterranean Sea comes gushing in, and City Hall celebrates the grand opening of Allenby Canal, with the mayor taking credit for the project and calling Tel-Aviv [[InvokedTrope Venice of the Mid East]].]]
* ''[[Film/TheNeverendingStory The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter]]'' features the city of Amarganth, or Silver City, which is located on a lake full of HollywoodAcid (tears in the book). People there dress like it's the Carnival of Venice at all times.

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