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Can We Save Venice Before It’s Too Late?
NY Times ^ | August 29, 2016 | Salvatore Settis

Posted on 08/30/2016 11:30:56 AM PDT by C19fan

A deadly plague haunts Venice, and it’s not the cholera to which Thomas Mann’s character Gustav von Aschenbach succumbed in the Nobel laureate’s 1912 novella “Death in Venice.” A rapacious tourist monoculture threatens Venice’s existence, decimating the historic city and turning the Queen of the Adriatic into a Disneyfied shopping mall.

Millions of tourists pour into Venice’s streets and canals each year, profoundly altering the population and the economy, as many native citizens are banished from the island city and those who remain have no choice but to serve in hotels, restaurants and shops selling glass souvenirs and carnival masks.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: History; Travel
KEYWORDS: italy; venice
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If not for tourism there is no reason for Venice to exist. Its wealth was based on being the premier entrepot for goods from the Silk Road/Levant. Once that trade dried up as a result of the Portugese going around Africa, Venice basically froze in place. The place survived as a tourist attraction for Europe's elite until cheap travel and rising incomes opened it up to the masses. If no tourism there is no Venice.
1 posted on 08/30/2016 11:30:56 AM PDT by C19fan
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Well c19fan not like reality matters at the New York Times.


2 posted on 08/30/2016 11:34:29 AM PDT by A message
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Only thing wrong with Disneyland is the crowds.


3 posted on 08/30/2016 11:34:39 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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“If no tourism there is no Venice.”

Perhaps that’s the goal. I often hear of how the ‘delicate ecosystem of the Venice lagoon’ is at threat from human activity so perhaps fencing off Venice and letting it die is some angle the eco-nuts are playing.


4 posted on 08/30/2016 11:34:52 AM PDT by MeganC (JE SUIS CHARLES MARTEL!!!)
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Can We Save Venice Before It’s Too Late?

Who's "we" ?

5 posted on 08/30/2016 11:35:09 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.


6 posted on 08/30/2016 11:35:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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I’ve never been there. Is it idyllic or dirty?


7 posted on 08/30/2016 11:35:42 AM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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I thought it was going to say Venice was sinking rapidly.

But who knew the natives are forced to work in souvenir shops. How truly Orwellian. /s


8 posted on 08/30/2016 11:35:45 AM PDT by Crucial
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Who's "we" ?

Good point, lol, they asked for their problems
9 posted on 08/30/2016 11:35:49 AM PDT by Scythian_Reborn
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We'll always have Las Vegas!
10 posted on 08/30/2016 11:36:31 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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Thanks, Yogi.


11 posted on 08/30/2016 11:37:55 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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I can't believe the entire NYT article contains zero mentions of either "global warming" or "sea level rise."

The only "rise" they mention is the "rise in the number of visitors to the city.

This omission says a lot about those two favorite talking points of the anti-human Left.

12 posted on 08/30/2016 11:37:59 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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The NYT worried about the culture and population of Venice? That’s pretty rich. I thought open borders and multiculturalism were just grand.


13 posted on 08/30/2016 11:38:37 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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“We’ll always have Las Vegas!”

Amen to that.


14 posted on 08/30/2016 11:40:32 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (It appears as if Trump is our Yeltsin.)
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“we”??? I can’t care.


15 posted on 08/30/2016 11:41:37 AM PDT by WENDLE (We will win together.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_atgCKxL0NA)
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Venice already has a ton of pilings to "help" the old palaces stay afloat.

Also the Italians, once the greatest bridge builders, CAN get engineers from every corner of the world to help solve that problem.

As for money, they can get the EEU to bankroll the deal.

16 posted on 08/30/2016 11:41:59 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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Why?


17 posted on 08/30/2016 11:42:02 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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Here’s the story from The New York Times.....

“Damnit! Why are these riff raff here ruining my view?”


18 posted on 08/30/2016 11:42:15 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Nobody ever wanted to visit Orlando, FL either. I mean why? It's a water logged swamp in the middle of a mosquito infested hell of vermin, insects, rodents, and reptiles.

Oh that's right..........An attraction. It's hard to come to terms with who your master is.

19 posted on 08/30/2016 11:42:22 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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I recently heard on the radio an original Mouseketeers say, one of the perks was to get to go on the rides in the morning before the park would open.


20 posted on 08/30/2016 11:42:37 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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