Sunset Over Venice 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

A city built on a mudflat by refugees, which then spent six hundred years running the Mediterranean.

Venice exists because people fleeing the mainland drove millions of alder piles into the lagoon mud and built on top of them. Those piles are still down there, petrified rather than rotted because they sit below the oxygen line. At sunset the whole thing turns the colour of the brick it is made from.

At 500 pieces this is an evening rather than a project, which suits the subject. Water and sky do most of the work and both carry strong graduated colour, so it is more forgiving than a 1000-piece cityscape. Clementoni High Quality Collection.

Perfect for: A puzzle you want to finish in one sitting without it being trivial.

500 pieces | Clementoni High Quality Collection