The two faces of the historic center: tourists queue up to show their QR code, while residents get angry at groups on drinking tours: “The access fee doesn’t stop them” Camilla Gargioni May 20, 2024 Tourists are searching their pockets, while the more prepared ones already have the QR code within reach on their smartphone. … More Bachelor/Bachelorette Parties Causing Chaos in Venice
A conference with the foreign press in Rome illustrated the critically serious problems with the access fee in Venice (the ‘ticket’) as well as counter-proposals that fit within a vision of the city that puts the lives of residents first and truly regulates the flow of tourists. By FRANCO MIGLIORINI May 21, 2024 When the … More Venice. A Ticket Against the Citizens
Overnight stays in non-hotel rental facilities are very high: intervention on an administrative and non-administrative level is absolutely necessary [Ed. Note: the following is a press release from Giovanni Andrea Martini, City Councilor in Venice and leader of the association Tutta la Città Insieme] The balance sheet for the first 11 days of the entry … More The First Numbers Show that the Entry Ticket is Useless for Managing the Flow of Tourists in Venice
The largest portion of the resources is earmarked for schools in Chioggia and San Donà. The goal is to increase seats by at least 33 percent By Giacomo Costa May 5, 2024 At a national level there are 734.9 million euros on the plate, and for the province there are 5.76 million for Venice alone, … More Venice’s Nursery Schools, 15 million Euros Are on the Way
“That’ll Be 5 Euros, Please” is the headline in the New York Times. The main global newspapers report on the checks at the station, the reasons the Municipality introduced the ticket and the protests of the residents. Today there were 23 thousand paying and 128 thousand registered By Leonardo Bison April 26, 2024 The second … More Protests and Doubts: The Debut of the “Access Ticket” in the International Press
There are some people who don’t want to pay five euros and others who are asking for the price to be twenty or thirty euros, with transportation and services included By Maria Ducoli April 22, 2024 It wasn’t yet half past ten, but Venice was already like an aquarium full of fish, too many of … More The Last Sunday Without an Entry Ticket to Venice and the Measure Remains Divisive
The activists of the Alta Tensione Abitativa campaign awarded the administration with a “Lion with its tail between its legs”. “An historic opportunity masterfully avoided”. The group’s proposal for a national law was relaunched afterwards at Rialto. It was a symbolic and ironic action, but full of political value, organized today at Ca’ Farsetti by … More “600 days without regulation on short-term rentals”: an Ironic “Lion” is Awarded to the Mayor
Urban planner Laura Fregolent (Iuav): “In addition to the figure of the decline in the birth rate, there is an objective absence of policies useful for reversing the trend. The main issue is housing” 3 April 2024 [Ed. Note: this site has been quiet for a month or so due to a variety of things … More Venice Drops Below 49,000 Residents and the Mainland Grows
CGIL’s Giordano: “You can’t hide forever behind cycling paths and planting, which are fine, because a worker who is trying to get around at 5 in the morning with the thermometer below zero needs free, widespread and not overcrowded public transportation.” Venessia.com: “The health of thousands of people is at stake” By Mario Nascimbeni February … More Venice’s Air Quality on “Red Alert” for 15 Days Now, “And Citizens Get Sick”
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”
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