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Tourists have returned to Venice, and the cracks are already beginning to show
The days of Venice as a locked-down floating city – devoid of tourists – are a thing of the past
Locals protesting the return of large cruise ships to Venice last week
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Any Venetian awake at dawn last Thursday witnessed a spectacle that much of the city s dwindling population hoped was a thing of the past. The MSC Orchestra – a cruise ship of immense proportions – ploughed through the lagoon and along the Giudecca canal to tie up at the tourist port, dwarfing Venice s unique urban skyline.
It was the first liner to arrive in Venice for 17 months – welcomed by an increasingly vociferous