Venice Bans Feeding Pigeons in St. Mark’s Square

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  05.02.08 | 10:33 AM ET

The birds are “eating away at the city’s marble statues and buildings by pecking at small gaps in the facades to reach for scraps of food that were blown inside,” according to Reuters. In the list of dangers facing Venice, I’d rank the pigeons below this, but above this.


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