Shrinking downtown Venice is awash with tourists

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  October 1, 2006 ;     353 words ...VENICE -- Four months ago, Mirella...prices are impossibly high in Venice, and then you have to fix...1951, the population of the historic center of Venice has fallen to fewer than...could disappear here and the historic center could be reduced to a shell...meaningful to talk ...

WE AGREE: PATTI, GO TO VENICE!(Sunday Magazine/Travel)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  February 25, 1996 ;     700+ words ......News Travel Editor Patti Thorn, go to Venice! Although I didn't identify her by name...was somewhat skeptical when I told her Venice, and asked me to ask my readers. Well...guess what the overwhelming choice is? Venice. Oh, there were a few other places mentioned...

In Venice, tourists left high and dry City launches bus for regulars only

International Herald Tribune;  January 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Tribune 01-22-2008 In Venice, tourists left high and...Edition: 4 Section: NEWS VENICE -- City officials on Monday...million people who visit Venice each year on the city...numbering about 60,000 in the historic center at the end of last year...people want to come to Venice they can ...

Residents of Venice get priority on waterbus Day-tripper tourists barred...

International Herald Tribune;  January 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ......01-23-2008 Residents of Venice get priority on waterbus...Edition: 1 Section: NEWS VENICE -- City officials have...million people who visit Venice each year on the city...numbering about 60,000 in the historic center at the end of last year...people want to come to Venice they can ...

Black Venice: Conspiracy and Narrative Masquerade in Schiller, Zschokke,...

Gothic Studies;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Recent writings on Venice as a set of signs have emphasised long-standi...similar evocations of Shelley and Emerson.1 Venice is a place of 'darkness', enhanced by...comprehensive description I can find of 'black Venice' is by Tony Tanner: The fact that, in...

A History of Venice, by John ...

The Washington Post;  October 19, 2003 ;     293 words ...A History of Venice, by John Julius Norwich (Vintage, 1982...of the republic in 1797. The World of Venice, by Jan Morris (Harvest, revised ed...of the character, culture and quirks of Venice and the Venetians. Venice Observed, by...

A Venice subway? Mayor hops aboard

International Herald Tribune;  February 24, 2005 ;     645 words ......International Herald Tribune 02-24-2005 For a tourist, one of Venice's charms is that the only way to get around is on...breathe life back into the city, which according to the Venice statistics office has a population of 64,000, compared with 175,000 half a century ago. ''Venice is losing population and ...

The magic of Venice still flows; La Serenissima retains beauty brilliant...

The Washington Times;  September 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ......THE WASHINGTON TIMES The merchants of Venice are alive and thriving. A visitor isn...but should bring bags full of euros. Venice - half fairy tale and half tourist trap...Lithuanian-born painter and sculptor, Venice is like an abandoned theater. The play...

In Venice, food is true art; Seafood delights prized in city famed for...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 24, 2005 ;     700+ words ...In the weeks before we left for Venice, our first overseas holiday, my husband...there are no McDonald's restaurants in Venice. You can't order chicken nuggets in Italy...Barcelona, Spain, waiting for a taxi at Venice's Marco Polo Airport that the poor kid...

Alas, that's the way the city crumbles Brutal repairs are destroying the...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  September 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ......the Dordogne, today it is apartments in Venice. For those seeking a second home with...slap of water against a canal at night, Venice is a city without peer. For years, wealthy Italians have had weekend homes in Venice. Now, thanks partly to cheap flights...

VENICE // Love and dreams on a watery stage

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 26, 1989 ;     700+ words ...VENICE Most cities are clearly the work of architects and engineers. But Venice seems more like the creation of a theatrical set designer...strangely imperious and introverted, that gives everything in Venice an unpredictable twist. So what exactly does a set designer...

On Not Seeing Venice.

American Scholar;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...I have never been to Venice and have no wish to go. People say, you must go to Venice, you'll love it. But they said the same about another...York: streets of desolation, towers of emptiness. Venice, once velvet and marble, is now tense with clingfilm...

Expensive Venice rapidly losing residents

Chicago Sun-Times;  May 1, 1988 ;     666 words ......older than 60. The report predicted that by 2015 Venice could have 20,000 permanent residents. Butcher shops...who say the loss of the city's natives is robbing Venice of something just as precious as its classic paintings...its mosaic-studded Byzantine basilica ceilings. "Venice's soul is emptying out. ...

VENICE IN FILM: THE POSTCARD AND THE PALIMPSEST

Literature/Film Quarterly;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The popularity of Venice as a film location is unremarkable. Venice offers a setting synonymous with the architectural and...achievements of western civilization. For this reason Venice is also a clich-a museum without walls that no one needs...

A Floating World; How expatriate intellectuals made the Romantic myth of...

The Washington Post;  October 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ...PARADISE OF CITIES: Venice in the 19th Century By John Julius Norwich...humiliating defeat at the hands of Napoleon, Venice had been the richest, most powerful...gave up without a fight. In consequence, Venice entered the 19th century an impoverished...