Tourists over the age of 14 who are not staying in a hotel or other accommodation facility in Venice will have to purchase a QR code before entering the city. They can get it, for example, on the city’s web platform after paying a fee of five euros per person.
Payment should also be possible at the main entrances to Venice. Inspectors will randomly check whether tourists are “in the dark” in the city, who can fine people who violate the regulations from 50 to 300 euros.
Entrance fees to Venice start to be paid in April. How exactly will it work?
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This year, the city will collect the fee for 29 days. In the testing phase, it will be between 08:30 and 16:00 hours. There will be a charge for admission starting Thursday on all days until this coming Sunday and then on virtually all weekends until mid-July.
“No one has done it yet,” Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said some time ago about introducing an entrance fee due to excessive tourism, according to Reuters. “We’re not closing the city, we’re just trying to make it livable,” he explained.
According to the authorities, around 20 million people visited Venice last year, with only about half of them staying overnight in the city of 49,000 inhabitants.
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