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Venice “undoubtedly the most from the Venice Lagoon in the eighties a lagoon the city has in interest in pro- levels are rising. The city is constructing beautiful city built by man.” But and last year the city banned cruise ships tecting, both for environmental reasons an integrated system of mobile gates ca-

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