Venice, ticket starts today: 5 euros to enter the city. But only 7,000 pay

It kicks off today the entrance fee in Venice, which thus officially becomes the first Italian city to have an entrance fee to access the historic center. It will continue to be paid on April 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30, and then again on May 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26, then again on June 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30, and finally four days in July, namely on June 6, 7, 13 and 14. The access fee, the Municipality of Venice points out, “aims to define a new system of managing tourist flows and to disincentivize daily tourism in Venice during certain periods, in line with the delicacy and uniqueness of the City.”

The amount for 2024 will be 5 euros per day and there will be no reductions. There will also be no identification of a threshold of presences beyond which to apply a surcharge on the access fee. The fee will be applied only to the ancient city and not to the smaller islands including the Lido of Venice (including Alberoni and Malamocco), Pellestrina, Murano, Burano, Torcello, Sant’Erasmo, Mazzorbo, Mazzorbetto, Vignole, Sant’Andrea, the Certosa, San Servolo, San Clemente, and Poveglia.

The collection will be done directly by the Municipality of Venice, mainly through a web-app that can be reached at https://cda.ve.it, created by Venis spa, by accessing which it will be possible to obtain the title (QR Code) to be shown in case of controls. The title certifies the payment of the contribution or the condition of exclusion/exemption and should always be kept with you.

The fee must be paid by anyone over the age of 14 entering the historic center of Venice and not staying in facilities placed in the Municipality of Venice. Excluded from the payment are residents in the Municipality of Venice, workers (employees or self-employed), including commuters, students of any grade and order of schools and universities located in the Old City or in the smaller islands, and individuals and members of households of those who are found to have paid IMU in the Municipality of Venice. On the other hand, exempted from paying the Access Fee, but they will have to be registered on the portal https://cda.ve.it, all those staying in accommodation facilities located within the municipal territory (overnight tourists), residents of the Veneto Region, children up to 14 years of age, those in need of care, those participating in sports competitions, law enforcement officers on duty, the spouse, cohabiting partner, relatives or relatives-in-law up to the 3rd degree of residents in the areas where the Access Fee applies, and a further series of exemptions provided in the Regulations.

How many, then, are those who will pay today? Actually a fraction of the total, according to the first data released by the municipality. Out of more than 80 thousand people who have registered on the application their presence in the city for today, only 7 thousand have paid the fee. The others are all excluded or exempted: guests of the accommodation facilities that insist on the municipal territory, citizens of Veneto, children and so on. And a no-ticket movement has already been created, pushing for civil disobedience and organizing protests to reiterate opposition to the measure. Leading the protests is the All City Together civic list, for whom the access ticket is nothing more than a cash-making tool that will neither reduce nor contain tourist flows. “There is no reduction in flows, but there is a desire to make cash by increasing them,” the list argues. “Smart Control Room and entrance fee, they do not serve any purpose and are not used in any way to regulate flows. On the contrary, they seem to make sure to increase them so as to have an ever-increasing profit. Also significant is the exemption of the ticket for the islands, because this means a greater incentive to visit the pearls of the lagoon, which are already under pressure and record the need for supplementary rides being activated. This clashes with Actv’s various niet to lines or rides that could help residents. These are the contradictions of the ticket from a point of view of numbers and cash profits, but the serious thing remains the payment of a ticket to enter a ’museum-city’ or ’amusement park’ and to force residents to show their generalities in order to be able to live in their own city or to have to report visits from friends and relatives from outside the region or many other cases that reach precisely paradoxical situations. If Venice is in these conditions, it is because it no longer seems capable of imagining itself, except as a tourist attraction, in its incessant depopulation. And Mestre has long since put itself increasingly at the service of tourism, becoming a dormitory for the tourists who flock to Venice during the day.” And already in the morning today, demonstrations are reported in front of Santa Lucia station.

Venice, ticket starts today: 5 euros to enter the city. But only 7,000 pay

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