Venice is famously not short of tourists, but its newest sight aims to harness the city's overtourism problem by pointing visitors towards social responsibility.
Built in the early 1500s to hem in the Basilica of St. Mark, creating the square, after an earlier building was destroyed by fire, the building's 500-foot, Neoclassical façade is one of the most famous images of Venice. Its ground floor porticoes house historical cafes such as Quadri.Now, for the first time, visitors can access its fourth and final floor, where a permanent exhibition has been installed underneath the sloping beamed roof of the building.
Part of that is a hi-tech exhibition of the kind that is rarely seen in Venice. Instead of covering history or art,"
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