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> but treat them as what they are: museums or theme parks, not places people actually live and work I know a lot of people born and raised in Venice who still
by ghego1 6y ago
> but treat them as what they are: museums or theme parks, not places people actually live and work
I know a lot of people born and raised in Venice who still live and work there. So labelling Venice as a theme park or similar is really not adequate.
Proof of that is the post Covid-19 lockdown situation. Venice without all the international tourist has proven to be a lively and nice city to live in, based on what I've been told by people from there.
Also, if we were to label Venice as a museum, then we would need to label half of Italy's old town centers as such.
- pjmlp 6y agoHowever having been in Venice a couple of times, and coming from a Portuguese region where tourism is one of the main commercial activities of the city, I can relate with the theme park description, we even call ourselves Portugal's Venice! It gets pretty annoying that when you go to places in the city center where you aren't known to the business owners, everyone assumes you are a tourist.