Over 80 thousand people registered their presence in the city today. Only 7 thousand, according to data updated as of Wednesday afternoon, have paid the 5 euro voucher to access the historic center. All other access is by people exempt from the tax, required to register on the online platform but not to pay. The gazebo outside the train station was stormed. Today the patron saint San Marco is also celebrated
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It is the first day of testing the entry ticket to Venice: over 80 thousand people have registered their presence in the city today, 25 April. Only 7 thousand (i.e. one in ten), according to data updated yesterday afternoon, have paid the 5 euro voucher to access the historic centre. All other accesses are by people exempt from the tax – such as Venetian citizens, workers, students and other categories – required to register on the online platform but not to pay. Among these, 30,300 are guests of the accommodation facilities, 9,450 are potential day holidaymakers from Veneto.
Attack on the payment gazebo
Meanwhile, the gazebo for payment or exemption from the access fee outside the Venice train station was stormed. Added to the many tourists and commuters on holiday are the ranks of journalists who have come from much of the world to study the first “ticket” designed to visit a city. There are tight controls leading to the corridors to access the nearby Ponte degli Scalzi or the Lista di Spagna, obligatory passages to San Marco. There is some amazement, few were prepared for such an imposing machine at one of the city’s main terminals, but no one is complaining.
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The party
Today in Venice not only is Liberation Day celebrated but it is also the day dedicated to San Marco, patron saint of the city. The Venetians have renewed the ancient tradition of the “bocolo”, or the red rose bud that is offered to all women, mothers, wives or girlfriends by those who love them. In the historic centre, but also on the mainland, the florists and outdoor kiosks worked at great pace throughout the morning to satisfy husbands and boyfriends who “had” to show up to their beloved with the traditional bud in their hands. The legend of the bocolo brings to life a sad story featuring a non-noble young man, Tancredi, and a noble young girl Vulcania, in love with each other but unable to marry due to the veto of her family. According to tradition, the young man has no choice but to seek his fortune with the Venetian fleet in an attempt to acquire wealth and fame. However, an adverse fate leads him to his death in battle, near a rose bush. A flower stained with her blood will be brought as a gift, as a testimony to the extreme sacrifice for love, to the young Venetian who, overcome by her pain, will die with the bud in her arms.
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