Venice hosts its own funeral

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11-16-2009 @ 11:03AM

Joe said...

Good luck with that. I'm sure they are an inconvenience, but it's not the tourists that are driving out the venetians, it's the water. The houses and the land are sinking, even though the city has taken drastic measures to stop this, you still can't fight mother nature. Houses are expensive because they require a lot of upkeep. And not simple slap some paint on it upkeep.

They are crumbling from underneath. And to fix that type of problem requires an owner with deep pockets. Some (or most from my perspective) of the mansions and homes have been converted to hotels.

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