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All funds from the Real Venice exhibition go to Venice In Peril's efforts. Invest in businesses that donate money towards saving Venice, such as UK-based Pizza Express, which donates a percentage of every Pizza Veneziana sold to Venice In Peril, and has raised almost £2 million to date.Donate to causes dedicated to saving Venice from its watery resting place, such as the UK-based Venice In Peril Fund, which raises money for restoration and conservation work in the city.Hopefully this last ditch effort will spare Venice for the enjoyment of future generations. The £5.4 billion MOSE project has thus far been delayed, but is expected to be operational in 2016. Meaning that we've only delayed the inevitable.
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Recent analysis shows that Venice continues to subside at a rate of 1-2mm per annum, While that danger has largely been curbed by precautionary measures put into place in 1970, Venice continues to sink ever closer to the waves she rests on. Venice's natural rate of 0.4mm subsidence a year in 1930, leapt to 12mm a year by the beginning of 1970. Groundwater from wells, the industrial complex at Marghera played a direct role in Venice's spiking subsidence. However, what should have been a slow, but steady descent was expedited by industry in the 20th century. One of Venice's great nemeses is subsidence-the natural dissolution of the marshy islands that Venice was built upon. Venice was, and remains, the "locus of decadent Italiante allure." However, even before this, Venice enjoyed a bustling tourism trade, beingĬonsidered an essential stop along the Grand Tour. Ever since the Carnival of Venice was revived in 1980, the city's claim to fame has been its propensity for all things cultural: theatre, cinema, music, and art.