Rome: The United Nations Cultural Agency, who considered declaring Venetian world heritage sites threatened, on Wednesday praising the prohibition of Italy on a large cruise ship in the heart of Lagoon.
The Director General of UNESCO Audrey Azoulay Tweeted that the decision on Tuesday the Italian government to deny access to Mammoth liners on August 1 is “excellent news and important steps that significantly contribute to security of this unique heritage site.” Starting next month, sent with a certain size or weight or exceeds the specific level of pollution no longer can anymore from the Giudecca channel, the main sea artery in Venice, or roaming the waters near St Mark’s Square, a fragile historic heart of the city.
Until the permanent docking place can be selected and developed for large cruise ships, liners will be allowed to stop at Marghera, the suburb of the Venice industry.
UNESCO, based in Paris, recommended last month added Venice to a list of world heritage on the danger site.
The recommendation is expected to be considered later this month during the UNESCO meeting in Fuzhou, China.
For years, protesters raised signs of proclaiming “no big vessels” have been shown in Venice, sometimes taking a small boat to sail close to cruise ships, which with people who look like a wooden giant slice through the city , Perhaps surprisingly, among those who praised the Steps of the Italian government were the cruise industry trade association.
“As an industry, we are very positive.
We welcome the government’s decision,” Francesco Gallietti, Italian Director for the International Association of Lines Cruise.
Galietti said the trade group had advocated alternatives from the Giudecca channel for about 10 years and therefore glad the government had promised to find a permanent alternative docking area for large cruise ships.
“We never want to stick to Giudecca,” he said, a discount claim of Acticists of Cruise Line Resistance.
“This negative damage (publicity) causes this industry to be far greater than the experience of” individual passengers who enjoy the sensation of sailing to the canal, Galietti said.
As for any logistical problem, the prohibition might pose for cruise services that will occur soon, which is not immediately clear.
Galietti said that with tourism struggling to get back steam after a limited trip of the Coronavirus pandemic, many companies did not put Venice on their travel plans.
The Italian government, in the cabinet decree approved on Tuesday, allocating funds to compensate for those whose tourist-thick businesses may suffer from prohibitions, as well as money so that marghera can be used temporarily docking to a permanent solution found.
It also declares the Giudecca Venice channel and waterways near St Mark’s “National Monument” in the urgent need to protect.
Italian environmental funds, or FAI, among groups of lobby length for prohibitions.
It accepts government steps with mixed sentiments.
“We are happy for Venice,” President Fai Andrea Carandini, a leading Italian archaeologist and academics, told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
“But we are not at all (happy) for the lagoon in the context as a whole.” He said that to handle a large cruise ship like that, “it is necessary to dig the canal.
That means more water will enter the lagoon, so that changes in the complex system are clearly one for Marghera and Venice.”