Venice

Tracy

I read in the news that Venice has 60k tourists a day , thats twice as much as it should have. One suggestion is building a subway from main land but they say that spells catastrophy as the lagune would be killed.

By the end of this century the water will rise by about 2 ft and cause further damage to priceless buildings.

forgotmyusername

hey this is really random but I like random.

In Vanuatu, an entire coastal village on the island of Tegua is being forced to move to higher ground, its huts flooded by surging seas. In Kiribati, too, a former British colony known as the Gilbert Islands, people are having to take drastic action.

The archipelago, strung across two million square miles of the Pacific, is home to 92,500 people. Most of them live on the densely populated main atoll, called Tarawa, a U-shaped chain of islets that are surrounding a central lagoon.

The beaches on Tarawa, an island nation which is pancake-flat and barely 500 yards wide, are so eroded that sand has been imported from Australia. Dozens of families have been forced to move, dismantling their wooden huts piece by piece and reassembling them further back from the water. Now the population is being squeezed into an ever narrower strip of land between the lagoon and the Pacific.

Venice has the money to sort their problem out.

CommanderRoss

Italians having money? That would be a novelty. But perhaps there's a billionaire who's want to save the city. Or we could ask the Chinese to make a copy somewhere. Otherwise, we still have the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.. ;)

00Beast

I think it's interesting how Bond visits Venice three times! Once in From Russia with Love, twice in Moonraker, and a third time in Casino Royale. Aside from London, which is a regular location for the movies, it takes the cake as the one city Bond visits most, if I'm thinking correctly.