Current events and history combine in the story of Bruna Malaguti, who grew up in Porto Marghera: “An atrocious place” By Mitia Chiarin 03 February 2024 “Porto Marghera was an atrocious place, but I was born there, and I feel like the little plants growing in cracks in the asphalt. I am a daughter of … More Living in Pollution in Marghera. “I am the daughter of hydrocarbon”
The research, promoted by the Fisheries Foundation, Ca’ Foscari and the Region looked at the food preferences of the invasive crustacean, which threatens the valuable green crab. The blue crab’s high reproductive capacity is also confirmed: females lay more than 2 million eggs with each single deposit By Elisabetta B. Anzoletti January 26 , 2024 … More Moeche and masanete: Ca’ Foscari Study Reveals the Blue Crab’s Favorite Food
This is what the Venice Prosecutor’s Office decided to avoid further problems after the failure of the barriers. But there is controversy over the maintenance of the glass installation By Eugenio Pendolini January 9, 2024 The technical mix-up that caused part of the Basilica to flood on Saturday January 6 due to the failure to … More Basilica of San Marco: After Accidental Flood, Entry Is Now Only Via Walkways
“Battisti Elementary has a view right onto Via Dante, the pedestrian and cycle road that leads to the underpass to Marghera, which is often a meeting place for drug dealers and users. An emblematic message has appeared on the walls of the underpass in recent days: ‘Mestre is a condemnation. If you’re going there, save … More “Save Yourself While You Still Can”. Drugs and Poverty Mark New Year in Brugnaro’s Mestre.
Guides will no longer be able to use small megaphones but only systems with earphones. Guides Association: “This is the right choice, but the important thing is the ability to enforce it” By Carlo Mion December 31, 2023 Tour groups with guides in Venice can have no more than 25 people. This was decided by … More New Restrictions on Tourist Groups Coming in Venice: Limit of 25 People and a Ban on Megaphones
The entry fee is also included in the document, which is scheduled to be approved in January. Italia Nostra and the opposition have written to the Municipality to ask that the discussion be made public and that there be more involvement from the citizens, but have received no response By P. Baron December 14, 2023 … More Venice: Excavation of the Vittorio Emanuele Canal Inserted in New UNESCO Management Plan
Opposition parties speak out against the Brugnaro administration’s three-year plan for the restoration of 538 vacant public housing units: “A strategy is required” By Maria Ducoli December 8, 2023 Everyone agrees, minority parties and associations, in saying that what was presented last Tuesday by commissioners Michele Zuin and Simone Venturini “is not a Housing Plan”, … More “Not a Real Housing Plan, but Propaganda”
Groups of minors are meeting in the late afternoon on via Poerio and venting their anger in Chinese shops. In the evening they gather there to buy and use drugs. By Carlo Mion December 8, 2023 Groups of youth who provoke people on the street or go into shops to cause confusion and knock over … More Youth Gangs in Mestre Return with Drugs and Violence
“Overtourism”. The American publishing house most followed by “quality” tourists puts the Serenissima in first place among the travel destinations to avoid in 2024. “The entrance fee will not work” By Eugenio Pendolini December 1, 2023 A travel guide publisher rejecting and advising against going to some of the most visited tourist destinations in the … More The Fodor’s guide fails Venice. “Don’t go, because it’s too crowded and because of motorboat waves”
Bars and restaurants invade campos and calli and drive out local services and shops. Every Venetian leaving home sees how the city is being transformed: considerations starting from the changes in the storefronts in Campo San Giacomo da l’Orio By Mario Santi November 18, 2023 On the corner that goes from the campo to Calle … More The “Urban Degeneration” that Makes Living in Venice Even More Difficult
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