Venice Heritage Site among the worst ruled the world

I get da Gigio Zanon this interesting study.

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The sites declared by Unesco World Heritage are in total 830.

Venice and its Lagoon, thanks to the interest of the Director of UNESCO Renè Maheu and Eng. Roberto Frassetto – Gold medal at the V.M. della Maarina – was the first to be declared as such already in 1968, immediately after "l'acqua granda" of 1966.

Now it is found from the site of National geographic as follows.

About forty years after the existence of the denomination, it was deemed appropriate to carry out an inspection to assess the ways in which they are administered. The idea came from National Geographic Traveler magazine, which joined with the National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destinations and George Washington University to appoint a panel of four hundred and nineteen experts who were asked to compile a ranking that included the 94 most important sites.

Foremost, which site better managed and better preserved, are the beautiful fjords of Western Norway. At the second and third, they ranked among the sites closest by nature to a city like Venice: Vézelay in France and Granada in Spain respectively. Vézelay is two hours from Paris in Burgundy, strong tourist region, and the Venetians who would like a sublagunare metro will be interested to know that the slogan of the region proclaims: “Blessed are the slow ones, because of them is Burgundy". to Venice, instead, it seems that you are looking for speed in every way.

On ninety-four sites examined and evaluated for conservation and land management, Venice was fourth last. Worse than her just the Galapagos Islands, Portobello ( Panama) and the valley of Kathmandu (Nepal).

The ranking is on a scale from 1 A 100, accompanied by the comments of the experts, submitted by them in an anonymous way. No site has achieved a score above 90 and no less than 20.

Italia Nostra considers it very serious that the city of Venice received one of the lowest scores: only 46. Here's how the scores should be interpreted:

0-25: Catastrophic. All very negative criteria.

26-45: In serious trouble.

46-65: In moderate difficulty: all the criteria or medium-negative or mixture of negative and positive.

66-85: Unimportant difficulties.

86-95: authentic, not damaged and likely to remain so.

96-100: Excellent in all respects.

It should be noted that by just one point Venice avoided being included in the group of even more seriously ill patients.

The most important causes of concern for experts (as for years to Italian Nostra and many Venetians) are overcrowding due to poor management of tourist flows and the general impression that the city no longer has its own specific life, linked with a local flavor, but it has become just a large container for passing visitors.

“You almost regret coming,” comes to write one of the authors of the judgment, “because our presence increases crowding and makes us accomplices in the progressive deterioration we are witnessing.” “There is no “true” life of the inhabitants," continues. For another, Venice is “a beautiful jewel that is disappearing, which has become only the museum of itself.” “No one lives there except tourists.” complains another. "The visit, writes yet another, It is limited to calluses, to churches and canals.” Only in the early morning did a commentator find some real local life, before tourists come out from hotels or worse from buses and lancioni gran turismo.

For those who want to visit the site:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/traveler/features/whsrated0611/wh…

What if not incapable thank these directors for over 30 years pretending to amministrarci? They squandered thousands of billions and then get the results above!

They built a regime bridge that was absolutely useless and harmful to the economy of a part of the city. They built a small train of the "Val Scomenzera" to create even more inconvenience for tourists and residents forcing them to take the same vaporetto after walking for half an hour and spending money on the train!

But the steps of the Rialto bridge are falling apart, the banks are uneven, the channels are invaded by iron barges that shakes the foundations of buildings, The wave destroys what remains standing, etc. etc.

Now they have the intention of still squandering at least a thousand million euros to build a useless and harmful sub-lagoon for the Lagoon and bring even more tourists (six thousand a day!!!) in a place that is already cramped for those who pass through it every day for work and pleasure. Which means new demolitions in the monumental area of ​​Venice! Not to mention the overbuilding of agricultural land near the new card and useless airstrip!

The only positive note is that the current mayor is leaving and with him his friend the president of the Region!

We hope that Venice might be saved! But if the Venetians did not busy themselves, I see that the matter is serious.

We have already arrived below the threshold of 60 thousand inhabitants, but in return there is a high density of hotels and inns for tourists.

Now Venice is a vacation center where tourists, wearing rubber boots more and more often, they move from penthouse to penthouse.

The millionaires continue to find they like restoring an old palace to have the pleasure to observe the slow death.

In Mestre tourists staying in new hotels, crossing the sidewalk every morning and the streets crowded, eating sandwiches for breakfast, I am hoping that it stays in place a sufficient number of palaces to grant him shelter from the sun, and complaining of gashes along the Grand Canal, where entire buildings were removed as rotten teeth and rebuilt in the Public Gardens in Bochum, a Dysneyland in Florida, Fukuoka or on the banks of the port of Sydney or Dubai.

Paintings and statues would have been housed in the new Museums of the Mainland and even there a reproduction of the famous Florian café would have been built.

They are right; there is no more hope: pusillanimous international good manners have combined with political gangsterism Italian… to rob the world of the most beautiful city that ever existed.

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