{"id":109422,"date":"2025-06-17T10:48:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T08:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/?p=109422"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:37:12","slug":"keep-calm-and-enjoy-italian-village-enlists-street-tutors-to-ease-overtourism-giugno-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/keep-calm-and-enjoy-italian-village-enlists-street-tutors-to-ease-overtourism-giugno-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"“Keep calm and enjoy”: Italian village enlists \u2018street tutors\u2019 to ease overtourism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Guardian<\/strong><\/em>‘s Italian correspondent, Angela Giuffrida<\/strong>, was in Sirmione to delve into the solutions adopted by the Municipal Administration after the very crowded weekend last May. The British magazine dedicated an article to the topic full of contributions and analyses, which we reproduce here.<\/p>\n

“When Sirmione became jammed with visitors during a particularly busy May Day weekend, it proved a tipping point.
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\nIn the era of overtourism, every popular holiday destination has its tipping point. For Sirmione, a sliver of land lapped by the blue-green waters of Lake Garda, that watershed moment came during Italy\u2019s long May Day holiday weekend, and has led the medieval Italian village to introduce \u201cstreet tutors\u201d to manage the visitor flow and ensure good behaviour. <\/em>The village, considered a pearl in Lombardy\u2019s lake district, was caught off-guard\u00a0on 2 May\u00a0when a crowd of people became jammed as they endeavoured to walk over its tiny stone bridge<\/strong>, which once served as a drawbridge, and into its warren of narrow lanes.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Luisa Lavelli<\/strong>, the mayor of Sirmione, said the bridge was soon de-congested and the mayhem eased, but with tempers flaring and criticism raining down on her council, she had to move swiftly to come up with solutions to prevent the village from buckling under the weight of its visitors.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sirmione attracts an average 1.3 million tourists a year<\/strong>. That figure, however, does not include day-trippers. During the fraught May Day holiday, an estimated 45,000 more visited compared with the same period in 2024 […]”.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Read the full article by Angela Giuffrida on The Guardian<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Francesca Roman on Giornale di Brescia also dedicates an article to street tutors (article in Italian only)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ph: Beatrice Vinci, Premio Sirmione per la Fotografia, 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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