Millions of visitors and gigantic cruise ships in the lagoon: In Venice, the environment and substance have suffered massively from mass tourism.
Venice no longer wants cruise ships * to anchor as close to its historical sites as St. Mark's Square.
A new cruise terminal should provide a little relief.
In the future, the large ships should temporarily dock in an industrial port in the northern Italian lagoon city.
No more cruise ships at St. Mark's Square in Venice - new terminal planned
In this way, a
historical and cultural heritage
should be protected not only in Italy, but also in the whole world, say four ministries, including those for infrastructure and tourism.
In addition, the ministers had decided to start an ideas competition to structurally and definitively solve the problem of the passage of large ships in Venice, it said.
According to the Ansa news agency, a
new cruise terminal is to be
built.
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Millions of cruise vacations annually in Venice
For years it has been argued that the cruise ships are destroying the city's environment and substance.
The UNESCO World Heritage city has only about 50,000 inhabitants.
On the other hand, tourism rose continuously until the outbreak of the corona pandemic last year, millions of people came to the city on cruise ships, and according to the region,
around 13 million overnight stays were
registered in
2019
.
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