Support the Campaign
18 July 2011
I wish to add my support to the long list of people who oppose the large advertisements on the public buildings in Venice. One of my favourite views is to stand on the bridge and look up and through the Bridge of Sighs. This also is now totally covered in advertisements.The whole of St Marks Square looks like an advertisement to consumerism. I don't want to walk into St Marks Sqare and be bombarded with adverts to the latest fragrance or footwear.There is a place for adverts and it is not in such an iconic city as Venice.Visitors are more than willing to give to the Venice fund, and surely this can be done in a more effective way. Please, please review this matter and stop this barbaric practice with immediate effect. Thanks. Irene Woodcock
12 May 2011
Hello, I plan to join your organization! I noticed this ugly monstrous ad trend in Venice a good 6 years ago. It is disgusting!!! I am calling the New York Times, Travel & Leisure magazine and Conde Nast Traveler to ask them to write about this travesty!! You must get them to do coverage with pictures of the damage!! Also, the cruise ships must be forbidden!!! The mayor of Venice must be held accountable!! What is his name? Who is in charge? I may not go to Venice for the Biennial if this is what is to be seen. It pains me in the heart to see all the stupid Tee shirt vendors, the cruise ships, the ads!! I was sick about it last time.Thank you for bringing this out!!Big magazines need to shame the people who allow and perpetuate this!!!Venice is being raped. Go to the big fashion and travel mags and get them to interview you and show pictures of the ugliness!!!! Lisa NYC
10 May 2011
I am a Art History student in my second year, one of my chosen subjects is art and life in Renaissance Venice and just a few weeks ago I visited Venice for the first time and can agree that these large advertising displays were an awful sight, seeing these up on the Library really ruined it. Although I will say that the advertising around the edge of the Ducal palace and up to the bridge of sighs was that of a brilliant sky if the advert hadn't been in there this would have been quite nice as there was a real surreal feeling.
Regards, Nickkie
5 May 2011
We spent a week in Venice in April 2010 and were hugely disappointed when we saw the amount of advertising defacing the buildings in and around St. Mark`s Square and the Bridge of Sighs. I should just like to add my voice to the general protest, although if the Venetian authorities ignore the opinions of eminent architects and cultural institutions, what is one to do? Given the number of tourists who flood into Venice each day, the city ought to be awash with cash.We are returning to Venice next month but St. Mark`s Square won`t be on the agenda.
Joan Gudgeon (Mrs)
4 April 2011
Dear Colleagues from the Venice in Peril,
Congratulations on this extemely important victory of your major campaign against mega-ads in Venice which, as you know, Europa Nostra fully endorsed. Let us hope that this welcome policy move by the new Italian Minister of Culture, Mr Galan, marks a beginning of a new "heritage friendly" policy to be promoted and led by the new Minister. With our very best regards, Sneska Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic, Secretary General, EUROPA NOSTRA.
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