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Year. >> amazing. 70% of those visitors don't spend the night and are what locals like giovanni and his antique boat club call [ speaking italian ] eat and run. >> every day they say 4 1/2 hourks eat some junk food and buy a chinese mask. the threats to the city are too much, too much mass tourism compared with the good stories. it doesn't mean rich people. the student who arrives hitchliking in venice and stays here and doesn't spend, it's okay. because he wants to live the city, he wants to know it. >> yeah. >> everybody wants to see st. mark's square, quite rightly. i mean, i would. >> yes....

Place known for its canals and connection to the sea but what also makes the city so special could also become its demise. sunday night, cnn's bill weir makes a splash on this week's wonder list. >> coming in winter means venice is gloomier but an empty st. marks square makes a great vantage to watch her other famous phenomenon which begins with that siren. it is the sound of an approaching high water propelled by moon and wind. a full moon brings higher tides and when the winds are blowing up the back of the italian boot adriatic sea water comes rushing through the three inlets of the lagoon....