Protests including violent clashes as Venice begins charging entry fee for day-trippers . Meanwhile baffled holidaymakers take snaps of the mass protests from their gondolas
Holding banners reading “No to ticket for Vene-Land” and chanting “Here we live and here we stay”, a few hundred people peacefully marched through one of Venice’s main squares to express their opposition to the new measure. For a long time, Venice has celebrated this day as historic because it is not only Italy’s Liberation Day but also the feast day of St. Mark, the city’s patron saint. But now Venice will notch up another dose of history for April 25 – as the day the city becomes the first in the world to charge day-trippers an entry . .
Most visitors who were Venice for the first time, said: “It is very confusing. When we got to the hotel they said something about this, but we didn’t quite get what they were talking about. But I don’t think €5 is going to put people
