Trending: Venice to impose daytripper taxes, but is it enough to save the fragile city?
Boats on the Grand Canal in Venice
The mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, thinks that insisting that daytrippers cough up €5 for the privilege of entering the city on certain dates next year is going to have them all heading to Verona or Padua instead. Is he for real?
Venice, a city with which I have enjoyed a 30-year love affair, is nowadays totally overrun with daytrippers. They clamber off the buses in Piazzale Roma at the top of the Grand Canal or step out of the train station just a few hundred metres further down that famous waterway with not a suitcase in sight between the lot of them.
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