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In this Feb. 25, 2020, file photo, tourists fiddle with their protective face masks as they take selfies atop Rialto bridge in Venice, Italy. Still reeling from the effects of major flooding just a few months ago, Venice faces a new emergency: the threat of a new virus outbreak across Italy that is scaring international visitors world-wide and hitting the economy hard. (AP Photo/Renata Brito)

Venice faces new threat from virus after reeling from floods

By Renata Brito and Giada Zampano - Associated Press

In this image taken on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, people walk at the Burano island, Italy. The Venetian island of Burano's legacy as a fishing village remains the source of its charms: the small colorful fishermen's cottages, traditional butter cookies that were the fishermen's sustenance at sea and delicate lace still stitched by women in their homes. As the island's population dwindles, echoing that of Venice itself, so too are the numbers of skilled artisans and tradespeople who have kept the traditions and economy alive. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Venetian islands revamp traditions to counter depopulation

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

People walk on an interior mosaic floor of the St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. Still invisible to the naked eye and the casual visitors, recent flood damage to St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice has been put at 5 million euros (dollars U.S. 5.5 million), the damage is caused by salt which expands as it dries. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Venice flood damage to St. Mark’s Cathedral totals millions

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 15, 2019 file photo, a man holds his luggage as he wades his way through water in Venice, Italy. Venice's hoteliers association estimates that the city's hotels suffered about 30 million euros ($34 million) worth of structural damage during November's floods. The overall losses though are higher when the lower revenues that local hotels have reported in the wake of the surging high tides are added in. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Venice hotels counting the cost of November’s floods

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A view of the newly restored Royal Gardens in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. Venice’s Royal Gardens were first envisioned by Napolean, flourished under Austrian Empress Sisi and were finally opened to the public by the Court of Savoy, until falling into disrepair in recent years. After an extensive restoration, the gardens reopened Tuesday as a symbol both of the lagoon city’s endurance and the necessity of public-private partnerships to care for Italy’s extensive cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Venice’s endurance symbolized in Royal Gardens re-opening

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

A worker stands on the construction site of the project in Venice, Italy, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. The system of moveable under water barriers, dubbed Moses, has been beset by corruption, cost overruns and delays. Projected at 1.8 billion euros and to be completed by 2011, the project has cost 5.5 billion euros and won’t be operational before the end of 2021. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Venice tide barriers pass another test but skeptics remain

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

A city worker helps a woman who decided to cross St. Mark square on a gangway, in spite of prohibition, in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019. Venetians are bracing for the prospect of another exceptional tide in a season that is setting new records. Officials are forecasting a 1.6 meter (5 feet, 2 inches) surge Sunday. That comes after Tuesday's 1.87 meter flood, the worst in 53 years, followed by high tide of 1.54 meters on Friday. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Ancient basilica on lagoon island hard hit in Venice flood

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019, Paolo Brandolisio stands in his oars flooded laboratory, in Venice, Italy. Venetians are fed up with what they see as an inadequate to the city's mounting problems: record-breaking flooding, damaging cruise ship traffic and over-tourism. They feel largely left to their own devices, and with ever fewer Venetians living in the historic part of the city to defend its interests and keep it from becoming a theme park or museum.(AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Flood-hit Venice’s dwindling population faces mounting woes

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

A man sits on a small boat in a flooded St. Mark square in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019. Venetians are bracing for the prospect of another exceptional tide in a season that is setting new records. Officials are forecasting a 1.6 meter (5 feet, 2 inches) surge of water Sunday through the lagoon city. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Time for hip waders: Venice sees record 3rd exceptional tide

By Colleen Barry and Luca Bruno - Associated Press

A woman tries to cross a flooded street as people walk on a trestle bridge during high water, in Venice, northern Italy, Nov. 15, 2019. (Andrea Merola/ANSA via AP)

St. Mark’s Square reopens in Venice, but water remains high

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

People use trestle bridges to walk in a flooded St. Mark's Square at Venice, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019.The high-water mark hit 187 centimeters (74 inches) late Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, meaning more than 85% of the city was flooded. The highest level ever recorded was 194 centimeters (76 inches) during infamous flooding in 1966. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Venice flooded again 3 days after near-record high tide

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A man holds up a phone during a video call to show a a flooded alley outside a shop, in Venice, Italy, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. Exceptionally high tidal waters returned to Venice on Friday, prompting the mayor to close the iconic St. Mark's Square and call for donations to repair the Italian lagoon city just three days after it experienced its worst flooding in 50 years. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Historic flooding highlights Venice’s vulnerability

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

A woman jumps over a puddle during cleaning following a flooding in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. The worst flooding in Venice in more than 50 years has prompted calls to better protect the historic city from rising sea levels as officials calculated hundreds of millions of euros in damage. The water reached 1.87 meters above sea level Tuesday, the second-highest level ever recorded in the city. (Andrea Merola/ANSA via AP)

The Latest: State of emergency declared in flood-hit Venice

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A woman jumps over a puddle during cleaning following a flooding in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. The worst flooding in Venice in more than 50 years has prompted calls to better protect the historic city from rising sea levels as officials calculated hundreds of millions of euros in damage. The water reached 1.87 meters above sea level Tuesday, the second-highest level ever recorded in the city. (Andrea Merola/ANSA via AP)

Italy declares state of emergency in Venice after high tides

By GIADA ZAMPANO - Associated Press

People walk in a flooded St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. The high tide reached a peak of 127cm (4.1ft) at 10:35am while an even higher level of 140cm(4.6ft) was predicted for later Tuesday evening. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Venice flooding nearly touches level of infamous 1966 flood

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

The Ca’ Sagredo Hotel in Venice, Italy (Photograph by Alison Reynolds / Special to The Washington Times)

Venice’s Ca’ Sagredo Hotel: Where ancient history meets modern luxury

By Jacquie Kubin

Actor Timothee Chalamet poses for photographers at the photo call for the film "The King" at the 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

For Timothee Chalamet, becoming ‘The King’ was terrifying

By Lindsey Bahr - Associated Press

Joaquin Phoenix portrays the Joker, a maniacal genius destined to haunt Gotham City in the world of DC Comics. (Associated Press/File)

Fall Movie Preview: ‘Joker’ gets a prestige makeover

By LINDSEY BAHR - Associated Press

Director of the Venice Film Festival, Alberto Barbera, left, and Venice Biennale President Paolo Baratta meet the journalists on the occasion of the official presentation of the 76th edition of the festival in Rome, Thursday, July 25, 2019. The Venice Film Festival will run from Aug. 28 through Sept. 7, 2018, at the Venice Lido. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

76th Venice Film Festival to embrace Netflix productions

By DOLORES HINCKLEY - Associated Press