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Traveling to Italy this summer? Maybe skip Venice

Jul. 03, 2019 Travel

One of Venice's iconic gondola on the Grand Canal. Photo credit: Peter K Burian/CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Popular destinations are now overrun with tourists who are creating heavy traffic, crowding sidewalks and tromping on delicate ruins. Press Play has a new summer series called #stayhome, featuring places in the world where locals are pulling back their welcome mats. We start in Venice, Italy.

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