All posts tagged "Venice"

The idea is anything but original. How many times over the last hundred years has a visitor to one of the many canals in Venice come to the realisation that this entire city is basically one big museum? Now this city has officially reached that state, it would seem. Tourists wishing to visit the Italian city of Venice now have to pay an entry fee for the first time, as a trial aiming to limit numbers of day trippers at peak times started on Thursday. Day visitors will have to pay a €5 ($5.30) access fee between 8:30 am and 4 pm unless exempt. Residents of the Veneto region, people who work, st......

The city of Venice will ban tourist groups consisting of more than 25 people accompanied by tour guides and will also outlaw loudspeakers on such tours, the city council decided on Saturday. The rules also prevent stopping at narrow streets, bridges or places of passage. The new measures take effect on June 1. The decisions, made on the council's last meeting this year, are part of its effort to limit mass tourism and its negative effects on the northern Italian lagoon city. The rules apply to the city centre and the islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello. It was implemented to protect residen......