Too many people visit for a day or two in peak tourist season, are overwhelmed by the tourists in the most touristy areas, and leave without the best best impression of the place. But underneath (or next to) the tourists another city exists and it's great. Af
ter all of the effort to get the barriers up, the future challenge will be finding ways to keep them down. Venice is already using MOSE more than expected, and faces the prospect of needing it much more than it had ever imagined against rising seas, so often that it would threaten to seal the city from the waters that are its lifeblood.No cars! (mostly)