Carnival in Venice attracts millions of tourists while the city is working on suppressing ovourism
While passengers are poured into Venice for a world -renowned Carnival celebration, they may be close to squeezed.
Three million people travel to Venice each year for the Venetian tradition, according to a website of a tourist group in Italy.
Carnival, also known as Carnevale, dates from 1162 – when the inhabitants celebrated the victory over the Aquilee Patriarch. The artists are forbidden Together in 1979 to restart Carnevale, he says.
Don Venetian Carnival Participants Masks and dresses as they attend various events in the city.
One video posted on a tictok of gazella, @gazellastudio, shows tourists in Gridlock moving around The city of canals.
A photographer in Venice was captured by Tiktok to catch the huge crowds that attended the carnival. Above, a screenshot from her video. (@gazellastudio)
Gazella, a photographer based in Venice, told Fox News Digital the last time she saw that the city was so crowded in 2020, before Covid quarantine.
“The city has not been crowded since then. That made it difficult for the locals to live,” Gazella said. She said the crowd increased the trip time for locals on weekends.
The video has collected more than 19,000 views – with users go to the comments section to express their opinion.
Social media users post videos about the crowds in Venice as the carnival begins. The city of channels wants to suppress Oversourism. (Stefano Mazzola/Getty Images)
“Nightmare. Even worse than ever,” one user wrote.
Another Tiktoker commented: “He was waiting for 2 hours to evaporate from Ferrovia on Saturday morning, he didn’t even know he was channeled when we booked.”
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“He experienced this today … never again,” one woman commented.
The user added: “Today was packed so much. We didn’t expect So many people. “
Three million people travel to Venice every year for the carnival. (Stefano Mazzola/Getty Images)
“It is a pity that massive tourism makes beautiful cities less and less comfortable,” said one man.
Another user warned, “Never go [to] Venice during the carnival.“
“Venice 365 days a year …” one woman joked.
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The city worked on the fight against open ovorism, announcing a change in tourist fees.
In 2024, Venice presented a pilot program to charge a $ 5.17 (5 euros) trippers for which the authorities hoped to discourage visitors to arrive in the peak days, Fox News Digital reported.
In the selected days, Venice implemented a tourist fee to prevent a goal. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, file)
Starting on April 18, visitors will officially pay approaches Of the $ 5.17 if it is reserved four days in advance, while the arrival fees reserved at the last moment in three days is twinning at $ 10.33 (10 euros), according to the city site.
Pino Parisi, an Italian passenger agent based in Connecticut, said he sees more tourists this year than ever in Nalia.
“Tourist taxes in Venice [are] not preventing people to go to Venice. I don’t think that makes a difference, “Parisa said.
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“Ever since I remember,” Il Carnevale di Venezia “was the most famous in all of Italy,” Parisi said.
He added that the festival attracts more local Italian crowds; But since there are not many tourists in Venice winterThere are still a lot of tourists.
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The festival is held from Friday, February 14, until Tuesday, March 4th.
