Venice votes on tourist limits as overtourism crisis reaches breaking point

Venice residents face degraded living conditions from mass tourism, including infrastructure strain, cultural erosion, and displacement pressures.

Venice, a city that has long offered the world a glimpse of beauty suspended in time, now turns that gaze inward — asking its own residents whether survival demands limits. On a day of broad Italian municipal elections, Venetians voted in a referendum on capping daily tourist arrivals, a measure born not of ideology but of exhaustion. The city's population has dwindled for decades, its infrastructure bends under the weight of millions of visitors each year, and the question before its people is as old as civilization itself: who does a place belong to, and at what cost is it kept open to all?

Venice votes on tourist limits as overtourism crisis reaches breaking point

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