The famous measure is coming in a few weeks: Venice will launch its entry ticket for day visitors
World premiere in Venice on April 25: day tourists will have to pay five euros to access the City of the Doges, which hopes to stem overtourism.
Published on 04/04/2024 at 3:17 p.m.
“This is an experiment, and it’s the first time that it’s been done in the world,” Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro boasted Thursday at a press conference in Rome in the presence of the media. of the whole world.
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“It’s not about making money (…) our goal is to make Venice more liveable,” he stressed, while the Serenissima is one of the most visited cities in the world. At peak attendance, 100,000 tourists sleep there, in addition to tens of thousands of daily visitors. Compare to the approximately 50,000 inhabitants of the city center, which continues to depopulate.
For 2024, only 29 days of high tourist traffic are affected by this new tax: “The calendar starts on April 25 (public holiday in Italy, Editor’s note), then follows almost every weekend from May to July,” explained Luigi Brugnaro, who promised “very soft”, “random” and “no queues” controls.
This tax, postponed several times, only targets daily tourists entering the old town between 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. They will have to download a QR code for five euros on the dedicated site (https://cda.ve.it/fr/).
For the moment no ceiling has been set on the number of QR codes sold for each day: “We are opposed to the numerus clausus, otherwise we are no longer a city but a museum”, insisted the city councilor of Venice .
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Tourists sleeping at least one night on site are not affected and will receive a free QR code. In addition, numerous exemptions are provided, particularly for those under 14 and students.
