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That sinking feeling: why long-suffering Venice is quite right to make tourists pay

The overcrowded city is leading the way with a tax on day trippers, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

‘Recipe for disaster’: Venice entry fee sparks confusion and protest on day one

Some residents say €5 fee aimed at curbing tourist numbers goes against principle of freedom of movement

The Guardian - UK

Venice Launches Entry Fee Pilot Program To Manage Tourism

Venice introduces 5-euro entry fee for day-trippers to regulate tourism and prioritize residents' needs.

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Venice: Hundreds of Venetians protest as city begins charging day-trippers €5 to enter

Residents fear the scheme will do nothing to reduce tourist numbers, but will turn Venice into ‘a museum, a theme park’

Evening Standard

Venice Launches Five-euro Entry Fee

Visitors entering the UNESCO World Heritage site for the day have to buy a five-euro ($5.3) ticket, with inspectors carrying out spot checks at key entry points.

International Business Times

Europe: Venice residents protest as city begins visitor charging scheme – as it happened

Locals say city is against plan and accuse authorities of turning Venice into a ‘theme park’ by charging day trippers for visits

The Guardian - UK

Venice launches pilot day-tripper entry fee to tackle mass tourism

Under the gaze of the world’s media, the fragile lagoon city of Venice launches a pilot program Thursday to charge day-trippers a 5-euro (around $5.35) entry fee that authorities hope will discourage visitors from arriving on peak days and make the city more livable for its dwindling residents.

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‘Are we joking?’: Venice residents protest as city starts charging visitors to enter

Day trippers will have to pay €5 to visit Italian city under scheme designed to protect it from excess tourism

The Guardian - UK

Venice access fee: what is it and how much does it cost?

The Italian Unesco site is hoping to reduce over-tourism with the charge – the first of its kind in a major city

The Guardian - UK

In World First, Venice To Trial Day Tickets

Venice will this week begin charging day trippers for entry, a world first aimed at easing pressure on the Italian city drowning under the weight of mass tourism.

International Business Times

8 Highlights from the Venice Biennale

Marie Claire

Venice Biennale 2024 review – everything everywhere all at once

From an alligator ride across Asia to an escape to outer space, the Venice Biennale’s ‘foreigners everywhere’ theme leaves our critic beguiled, tantalised – and frequently appalled

The Guardian - UK

The moments fashion met art at the 60th Venice Biennale

The best fashion moments at the 2024 Venice Biennale, with happenings from Dior, Golden Goose, Balenciaga, Burberry and more

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Venice Biennale pre-opening 2024: all the gossip and glamour from inside the billionaire's playground

Spritz-soaked parties, hundreds of exhibitions and big fashion sponsors counting Burberry and Charles & Keith — Joe Bromley reports on the glamour and gossip from inside the Venice Biennale pre-opening 2024

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Venice's 60th Biennale Opens On Humanity And The Fragile Planet

Venice's 60th Biennale international art show has opened its doors, exploring humankind's relationship with the fragile planet, from Greenland's icecaps to deforestation in the Amazon.

Newcastle Herald

Wild ride from Venice to the Hunter Valley on some well-travelled horses

Does the Hunter Valley have a strong link with St Mark's Basilica in Venice?

The Guardian - UK

Artwork commemorating Indigenous Australian history triumphs in Venice

Prize for best national participation goes to Archie Moore, who becomes first Australian artist to win it

The Guardian - UK

‘No death in Venice’: Israel-Gaza tensions infiltrate biennale

Protests erupt outside Israel pavilion, official Israeli artist pulls out, and Ukraine team puts up posters showing maps of nearest bomb shelter

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Josèfa Ntjam on her surreal utopias in Venice

Artist Josèfa Ntjam and LAS Art Foundation bring other worlds to life with ‘swell of spæc(i)es’ at Palazzina Canonica during the Venice Biennale 2024

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Les Lalanne’s surreal world takes over Venice

‘Planète Lalanne’, presented by Ben Brown Fine Arts, takes over Palazzo Rota Ivancich, with a cast of blue hippos, woolly sheep and giant grasshoppers

The Guardian - UK

Political tensions simmer behind Poland’s Venice Biennale entry

Painter replaced as country’s representative by centrist coalition is showing his work under the banner ‘Polonia Uncensored’

The Hindu

KNMA’s Kiran Nadar isn’t slowing down

Recently awarded the Padma Shri, the art patron is on a mission to promote Indian artists, both in Venice and at an ambitious new museum

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Aindrea Emelife on bringing the Nigerian Pavilion to life at the Venice Biennale 2024

Curator Aindrea Emelife has spearheaded a new wave of contemporary artists at the Venice Biennale’s second-ever Nigerian Pavilion. Here, she talks about what the world needs to learn about African art

The Guardian - UK

Insider art: Vatican sets up Biennale pavilion at Venice women’s jail

Pope Francis to attend installation that includes short film featuring Zoë Saldaña and Giudecca inmates

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Berlinde De Bruyckere’s angels without faces touch down in Venice church

Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere’s recent archangel sculptures occupy the 16th-century white marble Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore for the Venice Biennale 2024

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