Venice hotels have started giving
tourists water pistols to ward off marauding gulls swooping down
for their sandwiches and takeaway pizza bites.
Attacks by the birds, called 'magoghe' in Venetian dialect, have
become endemic in recent years.
Paolo Lorenzoni , director of the historic Gritti Hotel near the
Grand Canal, said "they really work, they're also coloured
orange, which those birds don't like".
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