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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.

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TOPICS: History; Travel
KEYWORDS: italy; venice
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To: Gamecock
Quick, who said that about Guam?

Play fair. Hank Johnson didn't say it Guam would sink. He's much dumber than that. He said it might tip over.

61 posted on 08/30/2016 12:19:41 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: avenir

My wife’s favorite city. We have been there several times. Very romantic, no cars, no traffic signals, you walk everywhere or take a water-taxi or the “water-bus”.

Great history, beautiful buildings and canals. We did not find it stinky like some reports. The island Murano is a great spot too, with it’s astonishing glass.

Don’t know that we will go back as it sounds overcrowded now, but there are times of the year when the tourists stay away, winter mostly.

We’re lucky it’s still above water, it’s demise from sinking is just a matter of time.


62 posted on 08/30/2016 12:19:59 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns.)
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To: C19fan

You could say the same for all of Europe. Which is why bringing terrorists in is a death sentence.


63 posted on 08/30/2016 12:21:16 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns.)
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To: C19fan

“those who remain have no choice but to serve in hotels, restaurants and shops selling glass souvenirs and carnival masks...”

Oh, the poor plight of the Venetians. They’re basically chattel, chained to their gondolas I tell ya!

Hey, if they really want to get rid of tourism, just import a few hundred thousand muslims into the city. That will keep people away.


64 posted on 08/30/2016 12:21:29 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: avenir

It smells and has lots of pigeons.


65 posted on 08/30/2016 12:24:31 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Boogieman

Hey, they left out eateries and bars, another great reason to hang in Venice. You meet interesting people from everywhere in those places.


66 posted on 08/30/2016 12:25:10 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns.)
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To: cloudmountain

I was just talking about a boat ride in a hotel.


67 posted on 08/30/2016 12:27:38 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (It appears as if Trump is our Yeltsin.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
I was just talking about a boat ride in a hotel.

That would be in Las Vegas? I was going to Las Vegas next month with an old friend but she had to cancel because of her health. DRAT. I was looking forward to seeing her in Vegas.

She lives in Texas, out in the middle of NOWHERE and it takes me 17 hours, door-to-door, to get to her house. I just can't do it anymore. VEGAS would have been great for both of us. Oh well.

68 posted on 08/30/2016 12:31:09 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: SaxxonWoods
My wife’s favorite city. We have been there several times. Very romantic, no cars, no traffic signals, you walk everywhere or take a water-taxi or the “water-bus”.
Great history, beautiful buildings and canals. We did not find it stinky like some reports. The island Murano is a great spot too, with it’s astonishing glass.
Don’t know that we will go back as it sounds overcrowded now, but there are times of the year when the tourists stay away, winter mostly.
We’re lucky it’s still above water, it’s demise from sinking is just a matter of time.

Occasionally I buy some Murano glass, just because it IS stunning, absolutely STUNNING.
Italy's gelato is also a work of art, consumable art. YUMMERS. Their lemon gelato is to DIE for.

69 posted on 08/30/2016 12:34:51 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: avenir
I’ve never been there. Is it idyllic or dirty?

Depends.


70 posted on 08/30/2016 12:43:59 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Interesting. Thanks.


71 posted on 08/30/2016 12:45:46 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: Secret Agent Man; Diana in Wisconsin

Nah, they speak Mexican.


72 posted on 08/30/2016 12:46:38 PM PDT by Gamecock (There is always one more idiot than you counted on.)
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To: cloudmountain

“That would be in Las Vegas?”

It’s in the Venetian Hotel.


73 posted on 08/30/2016 12:47:39 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (It appears as if Trump is our Yeltsin.)
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To: Mase

Thank you.


74 posted on 08/30/2016 12:48:00 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: Yo-Yo

Ah the fork in the road......take it.


75 posted on 08/30/2016 12:55:04 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Poke em in the eyes.


76 posted on 08/30/2016 12:57:23 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Yep, did that several years ago, with husband.


77 posted on 08/30/2016 12:58:12 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: C19fan

They deserve it all for what they did to Byzantium!


78 posted on 08/30/2016 1:38:30 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Larry Lucido
Deer dad, where are we going on vacation?
Venice, son?

No, it's too much doe

79 posted on 08/30/2016 1:41:36 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

Oh, see the deer. Does the deer have a little doe?

Why soitenly.....Two bucks! Nyuk nyuk nyuk!


80 posted on 08/30/2016 1:44:04 PM PDT by dfwgator
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