And to make matters even worse, Venice is located atop the Adriatic tectonic plate which is currently in the process of shifting beneath the Italian coast.
For centuries this city of stone and light has dazzled visitors, none more so than the romantic poet Lord Byron, who named the city, The Pearl of The Adriatic.
It's where a combination of weather factors take place at the same time - a high tide, low atmospheric pressure and strong winds blowing in from the Adriatic Sea.
Worryingly, the new report, published in Quaternary International, also concludes that large areas of the west coast of Italy and the North Adriatic coast could also become swamped by 2100.
Just a couple of hundred years later, the barrier islands that divide Venice Lagoon from the Adriatic Sea were reinforced with a 10-kilometre sea wall in an attempt to withstand storms.
In October last year in 2020, the sea walls were deployed for the very first time to defend the city against a storm surge in the Adriatic and it worked pretty effectively.