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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Autumn in Venice’ by Andrea di Robilant

By Claire Hopley

People march during a demonstration against cruise ships being allowed in the lagoon, in Venice, Italy, Saturday, June 8, 2019. Venice environmentalists have long complained that cruise ships displace water, wear down fragile foundations, cause air pollution and damage the delicate lagoon environment by dredging up the muddy bottom. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Cruise ships target of Venice protest after canal crash

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In this photo released by the Italian Firefighters, the MSC Opera cruise liner, a towering cruise ship, strikes a tourist river boat, left, Sunday, June 2, 2019, in Venice, Italy, injuring at least five people. The collision happened at about 8:30 a.m. on the Giudecca Canal, a major thoroughfare that leads to Saint Mark's Square. (Vigili del Fuoco via AP)

5 injured in Venice as cruise ship slams into tourist boat

By CAIN BURDEAU and LUCA BRUNO - Associated Press

The MSC cruise ship Opera is seen after the collision with a tourist boat, in Venice, Italy, Sunday, June 2, 2019. The towering, out-of-control cruise ship rammed into a dock and a tourist river boat on a busy Venice canal on Sunday morning. Italian media reported that at least five people were injured in the crash. The collision happened about 8:30 a.m. on the Giudecca Canal, a major thoroughfare that leads to Saint Mark's Square in the northeastern Italian city. (Andrea Merola/ANSA via AP)

The Latest: Italian media post audio of cruise ship pilot

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The MSC Opera cruise liner stand by a tourist boat following a collision in Venice, Italy, Sunday, June 2, 2019. A towering cruise ship struck a tourist river boat Sunday morning on a busy canal in Venice, injuring at least five people, Italian media are reporting. The collision happened at about 8:30 a.m. on the Giudecca Canal, a major thoroughfare that leads to Saint Mark's Square. (Vigili del Fuoco via AP)

Venice cruise ship crash causes multiple injuries

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FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, March 14, 2019, Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro speaks to foreign media about the pressures the city is facing from tourism and rising seas, during a media conference in Rome, Italy. Brugnaro was notified on Saturday April 6, 2019, that Italy's Court of Audit has authorized the city of Venice to dismantle a cable car system built on the Calatrava bridge, which cost about two million euros and has been barely used in the past six years. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, FILE)

Court OKs dismantling accessibility system on Venice bridge

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The Londra Palace from the San Marco Basin (Photograph by Alison Reynolds / Special to The Washington Times)

Royalty reigns in Venice’s Londra Palace

By Jacquie Kubin - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018 file photo, tourists walk in flooded St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy. Venice's city council late Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2018, approved a visitors tax on day-trippers, aimed at paying for essential services that are more costly to perform in the lagoon city, such as trash collection and the cleaning of public areas. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Visiting Venice will cost a few extra euros for day-trippers

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FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016 filer, people fill St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, to watch the ' Flight of the Angel ', as a woman dressed in traditional costume descends from the bell tower into the square. The mayor of Venice says Italy’s new budget law includes a measure allowing the lagoon city to charge all visitors for accessing the historic center -- not just those sleeping in hotels or other accommodations. Mayor Luigi Brugnaro announced on Twitter late Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018 that the tax will ‘’allow us to manage the city better and to keep it clean,’’ and ‘’above all allow Venetians to live with more decorum.’’ The city council will determine the amount of the tax and collection mode. (AP Photo/Luigi Costantini, File)

Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

In this Dec. 3, 2018 photo, a visitor to an exhibition of Tintoretto works looks at his &quot;Presentation of Jesus in the Temple&quot; at the Ducal Palace in Venice. After the show closes in January, it moves to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in what would be the first-ever Tintoretto retrospective outside of Europe. (AP Photo/Frances D'Emilio)

Renaissance master: Tintoretto’s 500th spans 2 continents

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

A view of Portofino, Italy, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018 as rainstorms and strong winds have been battering the country. A falling chestnut tree has crushed a car in mountainous northwest Italy, killing 2 people inside, as rainstorms and strong winds pummel the country. Storm damage also cut off roads to the tourist port town of Portofino. (Beppe Risso/ANSA via AP)

Venice floodwaters ease; Italian storms kill 2 more people

By LUCA BRUNO - Associated Press

A woman walks in a flooded street of Venice, Italy, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, as, according to city officials, 70 percent of the lagoon city has been flooded by waters rising 149 centimeters (more than 58 1/2 inches) above sea level. Venice frequently floods when high winds push in water from the lagoon, but Monday's levels are exceptional and forecast to rise even higher, to 160 centimeters (nearly 63 inches) by mid-afternoon. (Andrea Merola/ANSA via AP)

Venice hit by high tide as Italy buffeted by winds; 6 killed

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Arriving at the Hotel Monaco by gondola in Venice, Italy. (Photograph by Alison Reynolds / Special to The Washington Times)

Falling in love with Venice, Italy

By Jacquie Kubin

Vatican enters Venice Architecture Biennale with 10 chapels

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017 file photo, people form a human chain during a protest against tourism in Barcelona, Spain. Venice is planning to divert massive cruise liners while Barcelona has cracked down on apartment rentals and initiated a holistic approach to managing its status as a tourism city. Both are at the forefront of efforts to get a grip on &quot;overtourism,&quot; a phenomenon that can disrupt the community, imperil the state of cherished buildings and harm the experience of travelers. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Managing overtourism an increasing feature of global travel

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2014 file photo a cruise ship transits in the Giudecca canal in front of St. Mark's Square, in Venice, Italy. The Italian government and Venice officials on Wednesday Nov. 8, 2017 reached an agreement on a plan to block giant cruise ships from steaming past the lagoon city’s iconic St. Mark's Square and instead re-route them to a nearby industrial port. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Big cruise ships visiting Venice to be re-routed

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Actors Donald Sutherland, left, and Helen Mirren pose during a photo call for the film &quot;The Leisure Seeker&quot; at the 74th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Helen Mirren hits the road in ‘The Leisure Seeker’ in Venice

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Workers set up lighting at the Cinema Palace ahead of the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival, at the Venice Lido, Italy, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. The world's oldest cinema festival, which opens Wednesday, is kicking off the fall cinema season with searing drama, serious glamour and a crop of new movies vying for attention, awards and acclaim. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Venice Film Festival offers grit, glamour and George Clooney

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

This April 13, 2017 photo provided by the New York Botanical Garden shows Red Reeds on Logs which is part of the Chihuly exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden in New York. The show, titled simply &quot;Chihuly,&quot; reveals the evolution of Dale Chihuly's work from 1980 to the present. (Ben Hider/New York Botanical Garden via AP)

Chihuly glass show features dazzling colors, towering forms

By KATHERINE ROTH - Associated Press