Venice needs millions to restore waterlogged basilica, but insurers won’t pay
Insurers are refusing to provide flood coverage to a city where it is a regular occurrence, which has been getting worse due to climate change
19 November 2019 - 18:22
Rome — Venice's historic Saint Mark's Basilica will need millions of euros of restoration work after it was flooded this week for just the sixth time in 1,200 years, leaving its delicate marble mosaics exposed to destructive salt water, its curator said.
Saint Mark's, the personal chapel of the Doge of Venice during the medieval and Renaissance periods, is the most famous of a host of monuments endangered by the worst week of flooding seen in Venice since 1872...
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