The Last Venetians | ARTE.tv Documentary

People also don't realize that Venice is a dying town without tourism. As it's been said before, by Italians, Venice survives on the life support of tourism. It would be almost a ghost town without it.

without tourists... Venitians will sank... you should praise and thank tourists

20:22 Qui si vede che il vero male non sono i turisti ma il sistema che permette tanti fenomeni patologici. Quanti decenni si lottava contro le grandi navi? Non c'è niente di male se una persona vuole visitare Venezia. Si fa da secoli. Ma ci sono persone e istituzioni che hanno creato un sistema dove una nave butta 5000 persone allo stesso tempo nella città, dove le case popolari vengono tenute vuote, dove non c'è nessun regolazione del numero di ristoranti, negozi con vetro ecc. rispetto ai negozi "normali" ecc.

19:19 Finalmente vedo UN venexiano chi è contro il biglietto d'ingresso. Fino ad ora litigavo quasi con veneziani chi ripetevano: "Bene così! I turisti sono il male!" e credevano che il biglietto d'ingresso salvasse Venezia dal Disneyland. Quando ho detto che non fosse giusto quando la polizia controlla I CITTADINI chi camminano nella loro propria città (perché tali controlli saranno possibili), tutti erano contro di me, "fa niente", "nessun problema". Io sono d'accordo con Matteo.

I can't believe ARTE made such a superficial video... If you only have 30 minutes to speak about living in Venice, what can you do? You could at least touch the various factors that are making people moving out: the lack of kindergartens, hospital beds, playgrounds, jobs... What is it like to have a broken leg and live in a city of stairs? What is it like to be delivered to the San Marco hospital? What do people have to do to be able to have a swimming lesson in a pool in the winter? What about high schools? Where do people buy plaster or nails to do some work at home? - Or you can shoot a few generic "scenes of everyday life" like cooking spaghetti and putting a baby to sleep...

Vacation rentals are a plague

I'm glad ARTE made a documentary about this important topic but I'd wish they'd left out those obnoxious mannerisms and clichés like the long steady shots of people not moving, the repetitions, the overdramatic music, the cuts to "everyday life" like "'I'm not washing up today" which add nothing to the topic... Let lesser TVs shoot documentaries in this awkward way, ARTE viewers deserve better.

God bless Venezia........

shes probably buying from the market in the theatre cause she has no choice

Ahhhh Capitalism

in Venice only this time did the locals speak Italian and not Venetian (and precisely its lagoon variant specific to the city), with difficulty

16´44 germäni vpcyde dävn ^?^ 22:13 önn ^ ^

Hanno ragione i Veneziani

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Grazia grazie … this is an honest heart felt film

The corruption in Italia - prevents it from saving Venezia for the Venetian’s … those Venetians that are rental tourista… would be chosen from a lotto … to rent to locals only.. at a decent & fair price. Keep Venezia alive for real local life . Limit the tourist… Step up Italian government….

The hotel night watcham says the hotel "doubled his rent" does that meant he rented a hotel room?

Could someone explain that Venice is not only the main island of the commune of Venice, but that this touristic Venice is the old city of Venice! Venice has more than 250k inhabitants!

It is happening everywhere because money can go wherever it can find profit and profit is the God of all Capital. If we survive the next century we will look back and wonder, why we ever gave over all our human rights to the people who told us there is only one system that works on this planet. Capitalism.

Vecio Matteo, sei un grande

A Venise, comme dans d autres villes (Lecce, Syracusa/Ortygia etc en Italie - et la même chose dans d autres pays) il n y a plus de « vraie vie » : plus de boulanger, de boucher etc. Rien que des restaurants (ave des menus en 4 langues !), des marchands de souvenirs etc. Sans parler de la foule. Tout est gâchė, on n a plus envie d y aller. Dommage.

The main problem that this video unveils is Overtourism. Overtourism is a rather big issues in many European towns but also in other towns on the globe. The European commission for travel and tourism recently brought up this issue more seriously, defining all related problems that do not impact only demographic but also climate change and criminality. Venice might rank just after Rome, Florence and Amsterdam or Barcelona that do face similar problems of overtourism. There is hardly a solution to this matter, due to an enormous amount of co-factors...let alone social networking and the new online booking platforms' empire that further overtourism for their profits and those of low cost airtransport that drive to Venice millions and millions of tourists per year.

The same thing has happened in countless towns in the UK especially around the coasts where tourism has destroyed the local economy and housing opportunities for young local people. Much of the profit from tourism go into the pockets a minority that own the valuable resources (e.g properties/businesses). Local people have had to move away as they can no longer raise their families where they were raised. Employment is often low skilled, tourist related and disappears in Winter. Schools, hospitals and medical practices are closing down and the vitality of communities has been diminished. Farm workers, teachers, healthcare professionals etc often cannot afford the massively inflated property prices and rental charges. Normal shops are being closed and replaced by restaurants, cafes, souvenir etc

This is what capitalism does to places, only Venice looks more extreme. No rules. You're welcome if you can pay. No concern for the environment. It's yours if you can pay for it.

Hello from Bucharest, Romania- a huge underrated city in Europe:)

Sorry, aber kein Mitleid für die geldgierigen Venezianer:

Lieber stellen die ihre Wohnungen auf airbnb-Plattformen
zur Verfügung, um Geld von Touristen zu SCHEFFELN,
was natürlich dann zu exorbitanten Mietpreisspieln führt,
die sich sich normal verdienende Bürger nicht mehr leisten können.

Die eigene Bevölkerung vertreibt die angestammten Venezianer.
Selbst schuld, wenn jetzt immer mehr dort wegziehen.
Gier und Geld sind das Todesurteil für diese allmählich
aussterbende Stadt!

I remember when Castro said we'll throw all of the entrepreneurs and wealthy residents out of the country. Forget tourism I'll create a workers paradise he bragged. Today the country is in shambles. The beautiful city of Havana is a rotting corpse with the occasional1955 automobiles sputtering around the streets. Anyone who can has left. Criticize tourist but where would the city be without them?

It's the same all over with high cost of living, especially in American cities. The western nations, even with all of their problems, must look pretty good to South Americans and Africans, they're flooding the borders everywhere and bringing their three or four children per family with them.

Mi porta alle lacrime.

The same thing is happening in Athen's center and the Saronikos riviera... Thanks ARTE for the honest approach.

Loved this video for its honest depiction of how tourism is forcing Venetians to leave their homes as it is becoming expensive by the day.

It was painful to know that Matteo, such a distinguished looking gentleman who was once the manager of a hotel is now the night watchman of a hotel.

This video is tinged with sadness as one witnesses its heritage being trampled over ...as an example a theatre of great grandeur is now functioning as a supermarket.

How painful it is to see this cultural transition .

What is this demon which makes people addicted to greed?

Chiara is doing something wonderful , protecting the heritage of her beautiful city by restoring abandoned homes and giving them the dignity they deserve.

No doubt , its eternal beauty attracts millions of travel crazy tourists to Venice

But they should remember , to respect this ancient city's traditions, history, heritage and culture and not crush its spirit or change its ethos..

There are many reasons to live in Venice. I have two friends who live there. It is very clean compared to other European cities. The locals are nice. Many workers commute to the city and live elsewhere. It is not a city to live if you are old. There are virtually no cars and people walk everywhere. The water taxis help, but be prepared to walk on steps, over bridges, on hard surfaces. There are tourists which leads to crowds every weekend, more in the summers. And the cost of living varies depending on where you live. My friends pay 500 and 750 Euros for their nice size rentals. That's cheap compared to other cities in Europe. Some of the older houses are nice but cost an arm and leg to own. Food costs also vary. Eating at home is cheaper. Tourist trap restaurants will cost more. Locals tend to go to small family run places off the tourist trap areas. I hear the Italian government is trying to lower the number of tourists. But then again that is the bread and butter for many Venetian business owners.

Veneziano di nascita. Nel 1966 i miei genitori (avevo 6 anni) si trasferiscono a Mestre. 3/4 dei miei parenti abitavano ancora a Venezia. Oggi non ci abita più nessuno. Tutti in terraferma o morti. La vecchia casa di famiglia l'ho venduta nel 2013 quando è venuta a mancare mia madre . Era vuota e cadeva a pezzi ma per mia madre era qualcosa di sentimentalmente importante e voleva tenerla. La vendetti ad un mestrino (anche lui ex veneziano). Pensavo ci andasse ad abitare..l'ha fatta diventare un B&B. L'ultima volta che sono stato a Venezia nel 2022 mi è venuta una malinconia assurda. Non voglio tornarci mai più. Se vuole, mia moglie milanese ci torni con le sue amiche. Io non voglio metterci più piede.

The same thing is happening along the French Riviera also. People with money are buying up the apartments ( sometimes 2 or 3 at a time ) and renting them out to tourists. They stay empty in the winter and people that reside here year round cannot find yearly accomodations . Food has increased by 30% in one year and it is becoming increasingly difficult to live here permanantly.

Tourists are ruining many places, but I suspect most of them have no clue about the history and culture. All for a selfie.

Wonderful city,but I don't like cities that is full of tourist, it's terrible 😔

Tourism is surely not to blame, corruption is. How come there's no other economy besides tourism?

Non ho ancora finito di vedere il video ma da italiana mi chiedo come possa Venezia non essere una città turistica! Non ci si può lamentare di questo, casomai servono politiche intelligenti per gestire abitanti e turismo, come succede in milioni di città nel mondo!

So, who are the people profiting by renting out the entire city?..

Cette course au fric est encouragée par l'Union européenne, le commanditaire d'Arte.

Mass tourism=Imperialism

I don't agree with the main idea of this video. Venice is an universal city of mankind now; I hope all habitants leave the town and it is conserved only for visitors. Moreover, native Venetians earn a lot of money with tourism by sales and rentals etc. No need for empty romantism. No one is unhappy with this situation.

Hallo, mein familie kommen aus Baden-Württemberg. I can speak perfect english. Plus some spanish from mexico, Hola mi amigos, mejame estaban. Never been to italy but I heard there is many different italian accents. I understand german. Buorno giorno fortunato l'opportuno

Sono nata en Hawai'i ma al momento vivo a San Francisco. Me sento triste per i veneziani en questo video. Ammiro la loro resistenza y solidarietà.

So sad! Mass tourism creates a loss of identity of beautiful places as Venice. And also other major prejudices…Tourists are like grasshoppers 🦗:) We need less humans in this 🌍👍🏻