The romantic Italian capital, Venice, will ban loudspeakers and tourist groups of more than 25 people, in a bid to ease the impact of mass tourism on the Italian city.
The new rules will come into effect in June.
The use of loudspeakers has also been banned as they can “generate confusion and disturbances”, it added.
In September, Venice approved the trial of a €5 (£4.30; $5.35) fee for daily visitors.
Elisabetta Pesce, the official with responsibility for the city’s security, told the BBC the latest policies are “aimed at improving the management of groups organised in the historic centre”.
The city is just 7.6 sq km (2.7 sq miles) in size but it hosted almost 13 million tourists in 2019, according to the Italian National Statistics Institute. Numbers of visitors are expected to exceed pre-pandemic levels in the coming years.
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