Venice Wants St Mark's Tourists Dressed and Tidy
Venice will deploy stewards in Saint Mark's square to prevent tourists from stripping off their T-shirts, taking a nap or dropping fast-food wrappers in the piazza that Napoleon dubbed \"the drawing room of Europe.\"
Officials said they wanted to improve decorum and cleanliness in a square that has long been one of theworld's biggest tourist attractions, bordered by St Mark's Basilica and Clocktower, the Doge's Palace and the Grand Canal.