Posted on 05/29/2022 5:28:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin
On the night of May 15-16, the façade of the Redentore church -- designed by Renaissance "starchitect" Andrea Palladio, and the site of perhaps the city's most famous festival -- was vandalized.
A portion of the façade -- built in white Istrian stone, from what was part of the Venetian empire when the church was constructed -- was daubed in pink, with what looked like an equation scrawled on top of it.
The three-square-meter area sits beneath the statue of St. Francis of Assisi, just to the right of the entrance as you ascend its famous white-stone staircase.
It follows the vandalism of another Venice church, Sant'Antonin, which was daubed with graffiti a few days earlier, according to local paper La Nuova.
And on Thursday night, two American tourists decided to strip off and dive naked into a canal in the residential district of Castello.
Shocked locals observed them swimming for around five minutes in the water -- into which nearby houses drain their sewage -- before toweling down and returning to their Airbnb.
CCTV cameras dotted around have helped solve some of the issues. Authorities have already tracked down the person responsible for vandalizing the Redentore church...
Mayor Luigi Brugnaro called the vandalism a "scar" on the basilica, which he called a "symbolic place of Venetian traditions."
"Those responsible must not go unpunished, they must pay!" he wrote on Twitter, calling for more powers to be given to justices of the peace.
"It will take hours to restore at a cost we can't yet calculate. We should keep these barbarians in a cell for at least a couple of nights."
"Enough of this havoc," wrote the mayor after another incident -- a religious statue being destroyed in Marghera, on the Venice mainland.
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Hahaha...those canals are SO polluted. Hope they get what they deserve. God works in mysterious ways.
I wouldn’t even touch the water in Venice, even if you could force me to go there.
Barbarians
You’ve got to be one low life SOB to vandalize a church. But let not your heart be troubled. They will be doing a swan dive into the Lake of Fire.
Ugly Americans.
Visit Venice if you get the chance. Give it at least three full days, maybe four. That’s just scratching the surface, of course and if you fall in love with the place you can always go back. but you will find that you can’t even begin to do the tourist 101 thing in two days.
But yeah, don’t swim in the canals.
That should trouble your heart.
Go to Padova instead. IMO prettier, not nearly as expensive, and the people are a hell of a lot nicer.
Anyone whose seen those canals up close knows that those Leftists won’t be doing much more ‘protesting’ after this stunt.
“We should keep these barbarians in a cell for at least a couple of nights.”
I think I see the problem.
I know I’m supposed to pray for their salvation. But....
Back in her flight attendant days, Mrs CG used to go there frequently. She liked it ok. I’ve been once. Couldn’t get with it.
Oh gross. Like swimming in a sewage treatment system.
American guppies.
For some reason, my fist thought was nobody cares, then I realized this wasn’t Venice California.
bttt
My daughter and son-in-law spent a week in the Tuscany region. They didn’t see Venice, it wasn’t on their itinerary.
You are so right- even though they didn’t see Venice, there was so much for them to see and do, and there is so much history there, they couldn’t do it all in 7 or 8 days.
Paddling around in **** Creek with no paddles! 💩😖
It’s healthier to swim in a Florida lake full of hungry alligators than swim in Venetian canals. At least in Florida you can see what’s going to get you.
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