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The Latest Breaking News from Venice

Venice targets day-trippers by limiting groups to half the size of coach bus

Venice is trying to cut the number of day-trippers to the city, as tourist beds exceeded residents for the first time last year.

Fortune

Venice will limit tour groups to 25 people and ban loudspeakers to control tourism

City officials say the new rules, set to take effect in June, will help lessen the impact of tourism on the local community.

WEKU

Folk singer Daisy Rickman: ‘My Cornish village has become this strange, beige kind of Disneyland’

The talented, hypnotically deep-voiced West Country musician left for Venice and Berlin, but returned to find a thriving folk revival – and looming gentrification

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"The enthusiasm is back, just like when I started out 38 years ago" – A year with a Leica M11

Landscape photographer and Leica convert Jeremy Walker tells of a year with the camera he abandoned his Nikon for

Digital Camera World

Venice to limit tourist group size to 25 to protect historic city

Move aims to reduce pressure of thousands of daily visitors to Italian city and protect residents

The Guardian - UK

Venice to ban loudspeakers and large groups of tourists

New measures are set to come into effect in June next year

The Independent UK

In Italy by Cynthia Zarin review – essays to bookmark with a train ticket stub

The American poet’s acutely observed writing about cities she has visited across 40 years is haunted by past lovers

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Italy: Venice to ban large tourist groups and loudspeakers from June

Officials hope new rules will help improve movement through Venice's historic centre

Evening Standard

Venice is limiting tourist groups to 25 people starting in June to protect the popular lagoon city

The Italian city of Venice has announced new limits on the size of tourist groups

The Independent UK

Venice in winter: Why you should wait until the off-season to visit Italy’s floating city

Keen to avoid crowds of tourists and inflated prices, Annabel Grossman took a trip to La Serenissima in December – and discovered the magic of the Italian city in winter

The Independent UK

The UK city voted prettier than Venice

Chester is ranked ‘prettiest city in the world’ by study due to high percentage of buildings adhering to golden ratio

The Independent UK

Venice’s Grand Canal dyed fluorescent green by climate activists

Boat traffic was halted during the stunt, while Venice’s mayor called for the protesters to be punished

The Independent UK

I’d never fall into a Venice canal taking selfies – all mine are done in secret

I laughed at the hapless gondola passengers, but I’m also in awe of them pursuing their vanity so publicly

The Guardian - UK

32 Exotic Locations James Bond Has Visited In The Movies

James Bond travels to the most far-flung corners of the globe to take on villains, here are some of the most exotic places he's been.

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The Independent UK

Climate activists pour mud and Nesquik on St. Mark's Basilica in Venice

Activists have poured mud and chocolate milk on the façade of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice in their latest climate protest

The Independent UK

The UK city voted prettier than Venice – according to mathematicians

Chester is ranked ‘prettiest city in the world’ by study due to high percentage of buildings adhering to golden ratio

The Independent UK

Gondola of tourists capsizes in Venice after passengers refuse to stop taking selfies

The group of passengers, including the gondolier, plunged into the cold canal

The Guardian - UK

Venice gondola capsizes after tourists refuse to sit down and stop taking selfies

Video of passengers and gondolier ending up in canal water widely shared online

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The Independent UK

The UK city voted prettier than Venice by mathematicians

Chester is ranked ‘prettiest city in the world’ by study due to high percentage of buildings adhering to golden ratio

International Business Times UK

Travel Hack: How Tourists Can Avoid Paying Entry Fee During Day Trip To Venice

The scheme of the entry fee in Venice will initially be implemented for 30 days as a trial.

The National (Scotland)

Prestigious exhibition to be staged in Scottish museum next year

A PRESTIGIOUS exhibition featuring Scottish design talent which has pulled in the crowds in Venice will be staged in Scotland next year.

Al Jazeera

Venice to trial admission fee, visitor limit from April 2024

City mayor hopes scheme can be a model for other places that are struggling to cope with surging visitor numbers.

International Business Times

Venice To Launch Tourist Tickets In 2024

Venice announced on Thursday that it would introduce a fee for day tourists to enter the city's overcrowded historic centre on 29 days next year as it seeks to come to grips with overtourism.

Louder

Watch The Cure play on board The Orient Express in this vintage British TV footage

Join The Cure en route to Venice on The Orient Express as Robert Smith's band treat themselves to a luxury upgrade from their tour bus

The Independent UK

Venice rolls out day-tripper fee to try to regulate mass crowds on peak weekends

Venice authorities have rolled out a pilot program to charge day-trippers 5 euros ($5.45) apiece to enter the fragile lagoon city on peak weekends next year

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