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    Hell is other tourists

    Oct 16, 2024 3 minutes
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    Florentines are angry.

    Thanks to Airbnb, easyJet and the hyper-tourism they bring, fewer than 40,000 natives now live in the historic centre, compared with 100,000 in the Renaissance.

    And the 1.5 million tourists each year bring with them vulgarity, and offend the genteel people of this polite and beautiful city.

    In July this year, the BBC reported that a picture of a young woman kissing and embracing a statue of Bacchus in

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