Debate: ‘Death in Venice: is tourism killing or saving the city?’
This panel discussion and public debate will be held on Tuesday 11 October, 7.45pm until 9.45pm, De Marchi Room, CIMBA/Filippin Institute, Via San Giacomo 4, Paderno del Grappa, 31017, Treviso, Veneto, Italy. The debate has been jointly organised by the Consortium Institute of Management and Business Analysis (CIMBA), Iowa University and the Institute of Ideas. … Continue reading
Great exhibition of work by Patrick Hughes
If you have the chance over the next week, I strongly recommend going to see an exhibition of art by Patrick Hughes in London. This exhibition has been very positively reviewed in the UK newspaper The Independent here: Patrick Hughes: Fifty Years in Show Business, Flowers Galleries, London Patrick’s work includes many fascinating paintings of … Continue reading
Venice segregates tourists and residents
Following last week’s initiation of different water bus entrances for tourists and residents, a debate has raged about creating separate tourist and resident water bus services. For 4.5 hours a day, the water bus stop at Rialto introduced an entrance reserved for residents and another for tourists from 26 July to run until October. By … Continue reading
New funds for Venice’s mobile dams
Despite the Italian government’s recent €48 billion deficit reduction plan, new funding of €630 million has been agreed for Venice’s mobile dam project. This tranche of €630 million will be provided by 31 December 2011 and will need to be followed by successive tranches of €470 million in 2012 and €450 million in 2013 to … Continue reading
New Venice terminal for cruise ships and campaign against them
A new terminal called ‘Isonzo 2’ was opened at the Maritime Station in Venice on 13 July. This terminal will provide more space for larger cruise ships to dock, as illustrated by the Venice Port Authority here: Inauguration of the new Cruise Terminal Isonzo 2 However, the inauguration of the new terminal was met with … Continue reading
Venice’s Lido beaches made into free public spaces
Giorgio Orsoni, Mayor of Venice, has signed an ordinance ending private colonisation of beaches on Venice’s Lido Littoral Island. Hotels will no longer be able to restrict entry to pass holders for the more exclusive Lido beaches, as reported on 28 June in the Venice newspaper La Nuova di Venezia e Mestre here: Venezia, la … Continue reading
Tram Approval by Venice City Council
Venice City Council has agreed proposals for a tram service, as reported on 21 June in the Venice newspaper La Nuova di Venezia e Mestre here: Fermata del tram al garage comunale capolinea a San Basilio The Council approved a tram stop at Piazzale Roma, which is the final drop-off point for cars and buses … Continue reading
Tourist tax approved by Venice Mayor
Tourist taxes to be levied on people who stay in Venice and nearby were approved by Giorgio Orsoni, Venice Mayor, on Tuesday 7 June 2001. However, the taxes still require final City Council approval and the Minister of Tourism, Michela Brambilla, questioned their legality without central government endorsement. Press reports suggested that the tourist taxes … Continue reading
Paradise Lost and climate sustainability
In John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, the angel Michael shows Adam a vision of the Great Flood that God will send to punish the wickedness of his creation: man. Will Venice, Rotterdam, Boston, south-west Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Burma be the victims of this prediction as global sea levels have risen over the last … Continue reading
Anti-Nuclear Demonstrations
Demonstrations against restarting nuclear power generation in Italy have been held in Venice and other cities in Italy in the buildup to the planned referendum on 12 and 13 June 2011. A demonstration on St Mark’s Square, Venice, highlighted the nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in … Continue reading
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