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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

The Guardian - 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

The Independent 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.

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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.

The National (Scotland)

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.

Al Jazeera

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.

International Business Times

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

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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

The Independent UK

Venice Biennale’s new, rightwing director has art world guessing

Meloni’s party is pleased by the appointment but Pietrangelo Buttafuoco has surprised before – not least by adopting Islam

The Guardian - UK

Music painted on the wall of a Venetian orphanage will be heard again nearly 250 years later

Imagine Lady Gaga or Elton John teaching at an orphanage or homeless shelter, offering daily music lessons.

The Conversation

‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake

The group in Venice, California, started the difficult James Joyce book in 1995. They reached its final page in October

The Guardian - US

Nolinski Venezia: a most charming new hotel in Venice

Does Venice really need another luxury hotel? Nolinski Venezia makes a strong case

Evening Standard

Lack of affordable housing in Los Angeles' Venice Beach neighborhood inspires activism and art

A Los Angeles gallery installation offers a unique art-meets-data look at the eviction crisis in the Venice Beach neighborhood

The Independent UK

Amazing Adriatic: the top five places to visit

History, culture and great cuisine are waiting to be discovered from the Istrian peninsula to the Venetian lagoon

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Venice, but without the other tourists

Keen to explore the magnificence of Venice, minus the crowds? Cathy Hawker discovers the luxury hotel on its very own Venetian island

The Guardian - US

Don’t Look Now at 50: Nicolas Roeg’s mesmeric horror of inescapable grief

The acclaimed adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s short story remains a visually immersive descent and a chilling portrayal of loss

The Independent UK

Venice mayor orders halt to buses operated by company following second crash that injured 15

The mayor of Venice has ordered an immediate stop to electric buses operated by La Linea company after a bus crashed in the Italian city, injuring 15 people

The Guardian - UK

Seagulls force Venice’s Marco Polo airport to close briefly

A number of flights delayed or redirected after unusually large number of birds ‘invade’ the runway

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How I stuck my oar in – and saw a Venice I’ve never seen before

Venetians are reviving a centuries-old rowing tradition to promote a sustainable way of getting around, and to show visitors the city at its most authentic

The Independent UK

David Walliams ‘locked in Italian prison cell for seven hours’ during Venice trip

‘Little Britain’ star told onlookers at Henley Literary Festival 2023 that he was recently apprehended at an airport in Venice

The Independent UK

David Walliams says he was ‘locked in Italian prison cell for seven hours’ during recent trip to Venice

‘Little Britain’ star told onlookers at Henley Literary Festival 2023 that he was recently apprehended at an airport in Venice

The Independent UK

King expresses condolences to Italy’s President following fatal bus crash

The bus was carrying foreign tourists when it fell from an elevated street in Venice on Tuesday.

The Guardian - UK

Venice crash victims named as debate rages over Italy’s roads

Identities confirmed of 21 tourists killed when coach crashed through railings and fell 15 metres on to overpass

The Independent UK

Prosecutors investigating the Venice bus crash are questioning survivors and examining the guardrail

Prosecutors in Italy say they have ordered an expert examination of an overpass guardrail that gave way when struck by a shuttle bus that plunged nearly 10 meters earlier this week, killing 20 foreign tourists and the driver

The Conversation

Don't Look Now: moving, tender, haunting – and one of the best horror films of the last 50 years

Grief-stricken by the death of their daughter in a drowning accident, John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife Laura (Julie Christie) relocate temporarily to a wintry Venice, where he has been commissioned to restore the crumbling church of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli.

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