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Thousands of people descended on the streets of Venice to demand the ban of large ships from the Giudecca Cbad.
The protest comes a few days after a cruise ship crashed on a tourist boat, injuring four people.
Critics argue that such large ships pose a risk to the lagoon city's conservation, pollute its waters and damage its beauty.
Ministers said Sunday 's accident proved the need to ban ships and that they were working to solve the problem.
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The Giudecca, which leads to the famous St. Mark's Square, is one of the main waterways of Venice.
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These banners indicated "No big ships"
Some 3,000 people, many of whom carry banners such as "No big ships" and "Keep the big boats out of the lagoon", marched through the streets of Venice, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. , according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica (in Italian).
The demonstration, near St. Mark's Square, was organized by the No Great Ships movement.
Critics say the waves created by cruise ships on the cbad are eroding the city's foundations, which are regularly flooded.
Some also complained of harming the beauty of Venice's historic sites and bringing in too many tourists.
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These banners indicated "No big ships"
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These protesters brought a banner reading "ships are coming out of the lagoon".
At last Sunday's accident, MSC Opera, a 275-meter-long ship, collided with a wharf and a small pbadenger boat after losing control of her ship.
Italian Infrastructure Minister Danilo Toninelli said the incident was proof that the big ships were not supposed to travel aboard the Giudecca and that the officials were "finally on the point of finding a definitive solution".
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The government banned ships weighing more than 96,000 tonnes from the Giudecca Cbad in 2013, but the legislation was subsequently canceled.
In 2017, it was announced that the largest ships would be diverted from the historic center, but the plans were to take four years to come into effect.
Following the Sunday crash, the mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, called for immediate action to open the alternative channel in the city, known as Vittorio Emanuele III.
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