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How popular tourist spots like Venice are tackling overtourism - From banning golf carts and cruise ships to hiking taxes for day-trippers, iconic tourist destinations are taking matters into their ow ...
Venice’s Paradise Program wants to bring a statue of Giordano Bruno to beachgoers, planting a statue of the 16th-century thinker along the Venice Beach Boardwalk, a move intended to bring more ...
New chemical evidence claims that Venice’s winged lion could be Chinese... And that it's not a lion but an altered Chinese tomb gardian known as a 'zhènmùshòu'.
Weeks after a beloved statue was ripped from its foundation and tossed from a bridge, Venice police say they’ve caught those believed to be responsible.
Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files / 4.32: Photo File 32: Miscellaneous prints: personal, mostly in Europe, plus many in Syria or Iraq, including photos of Bedouin life and travel.
The massive statue has been a symbol of the Italian city since at least 1293 and is connected to the patron saint of Venice, Mark the Evangelist, often symbolized as a lion.
In Venice, a person is surrounded by gold. It clothes the statue of the archangel Gabriel atop the bell tower on St. Mark’s Square and glistens in the mosaics on the facade of St. Mark’s ...
Mermaids and sea horses make up the latest Venice Art Center public art project, which also serves as a fundraiser.
Lion statue standing guard at Venice's San Marco vandalized. Gray Hall reports during Action News at 10 a.m. on September 30, 2018.