00:00You don't need to travel to Italy to visit Venice. There's one right here in Berlin.
00:05What? No way! It's true, but why is it here and is it worth going? Let's check it out!
00:22Berlin is built on a massive swamp, so it's actually quite easy to carve water roads into the ground.
00:28And since the real Venice will be gone soon, you should put this one on your list.
00:33The canals of New Venice are already a hundred years old.
00:37They were built in the 1920s and we will need a canoe to explore them.
00:52Berlin today has a population of almost four million, but a century ago
00:57It was even more than that. There was an extraordinary need to escape the bustle of the dirty city.
01:03So the local government decided to develop this space into some kind of weekend getaway.
01:08And people started to build summer houses on this plot.
01:12Even today all these old wooden houses are still standing in the center part of this area.
01:17And in the outer ones they started to build massive villas.
01:20All of course with their own little warfs in the front.
01:24Damn, all those beautiful villas make me feel poor!
01:45If you want to get out of dirty Berlin for a while, this surely makes for a great place to
01:51explore.
01:51But make sure to bring someone to row.
01:53If you sit in the back, you don't even have to paddle.
01:58Come on, row, row, row!
02:21Where are you in?
02:24How did you do that?
02:25How did you do that?
