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By Mark Stone, Europe correspondent in Venice (Read the original post) It’s 6am in St Mark’s Square, a time when this place is at its majestic best. This is Canaletto’s Venice. Beyond the palaces, the rising sun glistens on the water of St Mark’s Basin. And then the spell is broken. A massive cruise liner cuts across my view. It’s ...

El comité No Grandes Naves pide alejar definitivamente las grandes naves de la ciudad después de que un buque empotrara a un pequeño barco turístico (El Pais post link ) Miles de personas se manifestaron este sábado en Venecia para pedir la prohibición del paso de los enormes cruceros por su laguna, una semana después de un accidente entre un ...

Venice protesters call for ban on large vessels after crash (Read the post on BBC) Media captionThe MSC Opera, its horns blaring, crashes into a boat moored at a wharf in San Basilio-Zattere. Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Venice calling for large vessels to be banned from the city’s Giudecca canal. The protest comes days after ...

Kiwi woman Joy Milmine suffers broken shoulder in Venice cruise ship crash From NZ Herald A Kiwi woman caught up in the Venice cruise ship crash is recovering in hospital with a broken shoulder. Joy Milmine and her husband Colin were on a trip around Italy when they were involved in the dramatic incident, in which a towering, out-of-control cruise ...

Venice, Budapest Crashes Renew Debate on Cruise Ship Safety By The Associated Press (Read article on NYT) MILAN — Cruise industry officials long insisted that ship accidents wouldn’t happen in Venice’s busy Giudecca Canal, saying guiding tugboats and technology ensured safety. The 65,500-ton cruise ship that crashed into a much smaller riverboat docked along the canal on Sunday proved them wrong. ...