More than 50 leading figures from the worlds of art, film, fashion and architecture have signed a petition calling for a ban on giant cruise ships sailing through Venice. [...]
Nicholas Penny, the director of the National Gallery in London, Richard Armstrong, the director of the Guggenheim Foundation, the architect Norman Foster and his wife Elena also endorse the appeal which has been launched by the Association of the International Private Committees for the Safeguarding of Venice [...].
— theartnewspaper.com
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I agree with reducing the large ships, but when I was last in Venice the bigger problem was the big-ass private yachts that park along the water's edge, then block the walkways with their security fencing and block the views out with a wall of boat.
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