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Venice in Peril
Keeping the old girl afloat
Founded after the devastating floods in Venice and Florence of 1966 by the then Italian Ambassador, Sir Ashley Clarke, this British registered charity is now chaired by writer Jonathan Keates and is one of 50 or so clubs around the world devoted to Venice (including the New York based Save Venice).
In recent years it has concentrated on small projects and restoration of monuments damaged in the 2019 flood, chosen from a list drawn up by the Italian Ministry of Culture.
So far some 70 restoration projects have been supported, including the monument to Canova in the Frari; a 15th-century wooden crucifix in San Zaccaria; some of the reliefs in St Mark's; and the restoration of the Arsenale's iron hydraulic crane, built in the 1880s by the Newcastle firm of Armstrong Mitchell, and the only one of the few in the world.
Image by Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls