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A total of 485,000 paying visitors were registered during the 29 days of the test phase. This is according to the first official report published by the city administration on Friday.
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Mayor Luigi Brugnaro announced that a fee would be charged on certain days next year. He did not comment on the amount or other details.
The world’s first such test in a city suffering from mass tourism ended last weekend. It is already known that from next year, people will have to pay up to ten euros when the city on the Italian Adriatic with its many canals gets particularly busy. The “basic tariff” is, however, supposed to be lower – possibly three euros. There are no reliable estimates of how many tourists managed to avoid paying the fee.
300 Euro fine
In the first test phase, the entrance fee was five euros between 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., mostly on weekends. You could get a QR code online and load it onto your cell phone. Otherwise you could be fined up to 300 euros – but nobody actually had to pay that much. There were also a whole series of exceptions: locals, hotel guests and children under 14, for example, did not have to pay anything. And that’s how it’s going to stay.
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