Gondolas left stranded as Venice's canals run dry - NBC News
WEBFeb 24, 2023 · Venice’s famous gondoliers have had to limit their movements in recent weeks after water levels in some of the Italian city’s smaller canals dropped because of unusually low tides.
Italy's plan to save Venice from sinking - BBC
WEBVenice is at risk of succumbing to its sinking foundations and rising sea levels. To avert disaster, the city is making changes.
Venice Is Saved! Woe Is Venice. - The New York Times
WEBApr 1, 2023 · Water paralyzed Venice, destroying buildings and the already fragile sense of the city as a secure place. Italy was confronted with a terrible question: Could Venice be saved? An Elegant...
Venice residents protest as city begins tourist entry charge
WEBApr 25, 2024 · Venice became the world's first city to introduce a payment system for tourists on Thursday in an effort to thin the crowds that throng its canals, but the fee drew protests from some residents...
Venice and its lagoon again escape inclusion on UNESCO list ...
WEBSep 14, 2023 · VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice on Thursday again escaped the tarnish of UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites in danger, drawing a victory cheer from the mayor but scorn from environmentalists and scientists alarmed by the impact of mass tourism and climate change on the storied lagoon city.
Venice launches world first tourist entrance fee in bid to ...
WEBVENICE, Italy — Ancient and beautiful, this city is sometimes referred to as an open air museum — and now visitors to Venice will have to pay an entry fee after the tourist hub on Thursday...
Venice to limit tourist groups and ban loudspeakers - CNN
WEBDec 31, 2023 · Venice has announced it will limit tourist walking groups to 25 people and ban the use of loudspeakers in its latest effort to combat mass tourism.
Venice kept dry as dam system wards off exceptional high tide
WEBVENICE, Italy, Nov 22 (Reuters) - A dam system built to protect Venice and its famous Piazza San Marco from flooding withstood the challenge of an exceptionally high tide on Tuesday as heavy...
Venice - BBC News
WEBSep 2, 2024 · DNA to help identify Venice bus crash victims. Three children including a baby are among the 21 dead after a bus plunged off a flyover. All the latest content about Venice from the BBC.
Venice ‘on its knees’ after second-worst flood ever recorded
WEBVENICE, Italy (AP) — The worst flooding in Venice in more than 50 years prompted calls Wednesday to better protect the historic city from rising sea levels as officials calculated hundreds of millions of euros in damage.