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Venice is often known as the floating city for it is surrounded by water. It is a very old, ancient city and is very beautiful with gondolas taking you from place to place. Apart from the old city of Venice there is also the new Venice which is a very Industrial area and is working very hard everyday with all ships coming into its port.

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Venice is often known as the floating city for it is surrounded by water. It is a very old, ancient city and is very beautiful with gondolas taking you from place to place. Apart from the old city of Venice there is also the new Venice which is a very Industrial area and is working very hard everyday with all ships coming into its port.

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A video showing just how beautiful the floating city really is

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A video showing just how beautiful the floating city really is

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Experience Venice’s Spectacular Beauty in Under 4 Minutes | Short Film Showcase

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Venice is a very big tourist destination, however tourists have been taking over the old city. Tourists peak between April, May, September and October. There are currently 55,000 residents in Italy but also 60,000 tourists. Residents have been saying that tourists are ruining their city and their home. Back in 2015, the head of the Italian Environment Fund, Andrea Carandini, warned that Venice was being crushed by mass tourism.

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The residents of Venice have been protesting, begging the government to do something about the overflow of tourists and finally they have. In 2015, the islands voted to ban cruise ship sailing along Venice's Giudecca Canal. These massive tourists boats don't just damage the canals but also every time a cruise ship is moored it lets off 10,000 passengers into the narrow streets of Venice. However, just three months after this cruise ship ban came into law, this move was overturned by the Regional Administrative Court on the mainland.

Then earlier this year Venice's Mayor Luigi Brugnaro proposed a ticketing system for access to the main area around Piazza San Marco. Thought of this June by Councillor Massimiliano De Martin, assessor of the commune of Venice, a ban on any hotels being created out of Venice's houses. Residents of Venice have become used to seeing their houses being sold off and changed to restaurants and hotels.

Many residents are hoping that the tourism problem will soon be fixed. For Jonathan Keates, chairman of the British charity Venice in Peril, his aim is to preserve Venice as a place of great beauty where real people still live. "The plan should be to manage tourism, impose higher tourist taxes, introduce tax breaks for small businesses and favor affordable housing. Venice needs the feet of residents on the ground, children playing in the campi, old codgers on benches -- a proper Italian city as we know it."

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Venice residents protesting about tourists

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Venice residents protesting about tourists

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The translation of this protesting sign in English is 'Venice is not a hotel'

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The translation of this protesting sign in English is 'Venice is not a hotel'

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It is clear that Venice is slowing sinking, but is it really sinking or is the water rising? There are many theories behind why Venice is sinking and many people are trying to prove their thoughts. Scientists first recognised the problem decade ago when they saw that pumping of groundwater from underneath Venice was making the city settle into the earth. The pumping stopped many years ago but Venice still continues to sink. Results showed that the city is sinking at rate of 0.03 to 0.04 inches (0.8 to 1 millimetre) per year. GPS and inSar results have shown that not jus the main heart of Venice but the lagoon including all 117 islands are sinking too. The northern parts at a rate of 2-3mm per year and the southern parts are dropping 3-4mm per year.

Venice floods around 100 times each year, it's called the acqua alta. in the last century Venice has sunk around 9 inches

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Statistics of how much Venice is sinking each year

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Statistics of how much Venice is sinking each year

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Since the 1966 floods, officials knew that sometime had to be done, but it took them four decades to come up with a solution that could work. In 2003 many engineering firms started building the MOSE Profect. It was named for an acronym of its Italian name, Modulo Speeimentale Elettromeccanico. In MOSE underwater "mobile" gates are being built on the floor of the sea where the open sea enters Venice's lagoon. When the seawater rises above a certain level, air is pumped into ten gates, causing them to rise and shut out if the Adriatic Sea. The first gates are already installed and the project should be finished by 2020. This may stop the terrible floods Venice gets however, it does not stop Venice from sinking and no solution has been found for that yet.

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Marghera is the part of Venice that people often forget about. When you someone says Venice you instantly think of gondolas and beautiful buildings however that is just the old city. Right above that is Marghera the biggest part of Venice which is the industrial area. The industrial port, which can be seen from the old city, has over 5000 ships and 1100 oil tankers each year. There are 7 commercial terminals, 1 passenger terminal and 16 other terminals. They have many ships come in from containers, to liquid and solid bulk, steel products, Ro-Ro/Ro-Pax, general and project charge. The Port of Venice in Marghera is the only port in Italy having and inland waterways terminal. It is one of the largest ports in Italy.

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A video showing Port Marghera from above

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A video showing Port Marghera from above

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Atterraggio a Venezia - Sorvolo di Porto Marghera

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Atterraggio a Venezia - Sorvolo di Porto Marghera - Volo Easyjet

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A video showing a ship leaving Port Marghera

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A video showing a ship leaving Port Marghera

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Departure of M/V Dynamogracht from Porto Marghera (Italy, Venice). LOA= 156,95m One tug is assisting.