Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said today the lagoon city would trial an entry fee for day trippers starting next year (2024). This is not the first time the city has said it will charge to reduce congestion.
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UNESCO recommends Venice be added to its world heritage in danger list. The organisation says the city faces “irreversible” damage from a range of threats, including the climate crisis and mass tourism. This is not the first time UNESCO has said this.
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A state prosecutor in northern Italy has demanded that 33 birth certificates be cancelled of children born to lesbian couples dating back to 2017. The prosecutor says the name of the nonbiological mother should be removed.
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Trieste is preparing to host the 14th edition of its annual June 16th Bloomsday celebrations. Home to the great Irish writer James Joyce for many years, the celebration is that of the author and his most famous novel, Ulysses.
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The exceptionally heavy rainfall that affected many parts of northern Italy in May has put an end to the severe drought affecting almost the whole of the river Po, the district basin authority said on today.
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Veneto’s regional health authority and ethics committee on Friday approved a request for assisted suicide by a 78-year-old woman with terminal cancer. She filed her plea on the basis of the Constitutional Court’s recent ‘Cappato ruling’.
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Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi spoke yesterday of the Verona Police Brutality investigation which has led to the arrest of five officers. The investigation of 17 others was “of enormous gravity”, he added.
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A British base jumper dies after falling more than 400 metres to his death. Mark Andrews died in the same spot as another Brit a year ago.
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Last Sunday residents woke to find a patch of Venice’s Grand Canal was fluorescent green. A number of theories were bandied about. Officials now know what has caused the dramatic change of colour, but not how.
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A number of ancient books and manuscripts are now in industrial-sized freezers at -25C in a bid to rid them of excess water. The documents were affected by the deadly floods last week in Emilia-Romagna and Le Marche.
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