“Crazy and illegitimate, I invite you not to pay”

“A pure madness, completely illegitimate, unconstitutional, in no city in the world do you pay to enter. Is it unheard of that in this country there isn’t a Council, someone who says: ‘has your brains gone mad’? You think you can put a tax to enter a city, you think you’re in the Middle Ages, are you crazy?”. Massimo Cacciari he doesn’t agree and, in an interview with Adnkronos, expresses his total opposition to the new measure entrance ticket 5 euros per person for occasional visitors to Venicewhich will come into force from April 25th and will be operational until July 14th.

“In Venice, tourists already pay three times as much as residents for transport tickets, they pay for museums, they pay for everything. Such a brutal declaration of considering Venice a pure museum is a cultural disgrace – sinks Cacciari, a true Venetian and former mayor of the lagoon city. Where in the world do I pay to enter a city? I will pay the ZTL, I will pay the circulation tax for the motorboat, but do I have to pay to enter the city on foot? It seems absurd to me.” Just as, for Cacciari, “it is absurd that the newspapers treat the matter as if it were normal, any madness has passed now. A few years ago, something like this wouldn’t have occurred to anyone.”

Then the provocation: “Me I invite everyone not to pay anything, because I want to see in front of any judge how they can support the legitimacy of an entry tax into the city!”, the philosopher says. “What do they do – he asks – they block traffic, they make the police ask for documents to see if I have paid a ticket to enter, I, an Italian, a European citizen, into an Italian city? Just talking about it is a shame”, concludes Cacciari.