Online Travel Guides:Venice hosts its own funeral
November 15, 2009 :: Posted by - admin
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Travel guide, tips and Information about best places to visit, current and upcoming events, museums, exhibitions.Filed under: Festivals and Events, Europe, Italy, NewsVenice is dying. At least, according to Newsweek it is. The population has been shrinking so rapidly (it dropped below 60,000 this year) that the mag predicts there won’t be a single full-time resident in the city by 2030. A city
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