Material was distributed after episodes of little education and degradation resulting from mass tourism.
Increasingly angry, the residents of Venice reacted by hanging signs in English that said: “Tourists go away” and “You are not welcome”, with the clear objective of warning about the bad behavior of the visitors who arrive every day at the city. city of Canals.
In one of the posters, a tourist was represented by a pig, dressed in short pants and without a shirt, who threw garbage around the city. On the drawing was written “STOP”.
The protest comes after a new summer in which mass tourism, but especially with people considered rude, left images such as that of a group of young people who on August 17 tried to jump into the Grand Canal to cool off or the jump of two boys from the Ponte della Paglia.
The newspaper “Corriere della Sera” illustrates the image of a Venice in which tourists open tents in the city's gardens, organize meals on the banks of the canals and above all produce tons of rubbish that accumulates in every corner.
According to the local newspaper “Corriere del Veneto”, every day 30 cubic meters of waste are collected.
Furthermore, with the mass presence of tourists the number of robberies also increased and in August alone there were 120 arrests, the newspaper reports.
In light of recent episodes, such as the one on August 13 when a drunk tourist jumped from the Rialto Bridge and fell onto a boat that was passing by at the time, the city's mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, reiterated his request for greater powers in matters of public order .
“Against thieves, vandals and drunks. A night in the dungeon”, wrote Brugnaro on his Twitter account.
But for “Corriere della Sera” another problem in Venice is the “stress” of its own residents who “explode in an indecent way with the flood of tourists”.
According to the latest report from the Guarda di Finanza (Italian Financial Police), there are 1,9 accommodation units registered for visitors to Venice.
The Venetians prefer to leave the city and rent their houses as “Bed and Breakfast”, which is why the city's depopulation is growing with around a thousand fewer residents per year and currently there are only 55 thousand residents, while in 2015, 34 million visitors passed through Venice.
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