| Event type: | Monthly meeting |
| Date: | Mon 12 Jan 2026 |
| Time: | 10:00am - 12:00pm |
| Venue: | St Margaret’s United Reformed Church, N3 1BD |
| Booking: | Note that booking is required. |
Venice is eternally fascinating. But how did a desperate refugee shanty town built on a swamp turn into the massive trading empire whose billions nourished the creativity of Titian and Veronese, Vivaldi and Monteverdi? In this talk, we’ll hear the fairytale story of why Venice was established in the swamps between the deltas of the Po and Piave rivers, and how – as the pivot between Europe and the fabulous East – Venice became the place to be seen for kings, dukes, princes, bankers and generals.
Speaker and NLU3A member Mike Klein is an engineer by training who has always been fascinated by history – not so much for what happened, but why – and why it happened at that time.