After the UNESCO warned they would have to add "the lagoon basin near St. Mark’s Square and the Giudecca Canal, which is a major marine artery in Venice" to the list of imperiled world heritage sites, Italy has taken a huge step in protecting their local waterways by establishing by banning all large cruise ships ("..weighing more than 25,000 tons or longer than 530 feet or with other characteristics that would make them too polluting or overwhelming for Venice's environment") from entering. The government will be adding temporary docks until permanent ones can be established outside the soon to be protected waters as well as a fund to compensate local those effected by the ban.
The Cabinet decree also "establishes an unbreakable principle, by declaring the urban waterways of St. Mark's Basin, St. Mark's Canal and the Giudecca Canal a national monument,'' the minister added.
The Italian government previously decided to ban the ships but without establishing so soon a date.
Read the article from USA Today :
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/cruise/2021/07/13/italy-bans-large-cruise-ships-sailing-into-venice-august-unesco-united-nations/7954500002/
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