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On April 25, Venice, a city in Italy, to control overtourism, introduced an entry fee for visitors who are coming in to visit the city
Day-trippers coming to the city between 8.30 am and 4 pm are now required to pay €5.
Overnight visitors are not charged, nor are residents, commuters, students, or children under 14.
As part of a trial period, the entrance fee, which can be paid online and is only necessary to enter Venice’s historic centre, is applicable on 29 peak days from April 25 to July 14.
Transgressors risk fines ranging from €50 to €300.
Venice
Venice is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
It is built on a group of 126 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 472 bridges.
The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta and the Sile).
The lagoon and the historic parts of the city within the lagoon were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987
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