The famous yacht of the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich irritated the inhabitants of Venice, on the coast of which he moored his "Moon".</p >
Locals, accustomed to admiring St. Mark's Bay, now stumble upon the helipads and bulletproof windows of a luxury ship.
Abramovich's yacht arrived in Venice at the Biennale - an exhibition of contemporary art. The businessman himself has not yet been seen in Venice, but his girlfriend Daria Zhukova managed to take on board a lot of artists, art dealers and critics.
First of all, the mayor of the city, Giorgio Orsoni, was outraged, threatening to introduce a new tax on large ships. "Yachts are getting too big and obscuring the view. Their owners come here to see Venice for free, but St. Mark's Bay turns into a motorway, and it's time to introduce traffic restrictions," he explained.
The co-owner of the old Café Florian, located on St. Mark's Square, whose visitors founded the Biennale in 1895, called the presence of Abramovich's yacht "idiotic". "There are so many beautiful places to stay here - so why are these people dragging their houses around with them?" exclaimed Marco Paolini.
With an indoor pool, a massive superstructure and a crew of 40, Luna is just one of Abramovich's fleet of megayachts, and not the largest: Eclipse is the flagship.
But Luna is also impressive: local bloggers jokingly mistake the yacht for one of the installations of a contemporary art exhibition, especially since it is moored in the Canal of the Holy Martyrs, not far from the Biennale site.
"The most irritating thing to look at is the barriers that the guards set up when the yacht is moored, and which capture two or three meters of the sidewalk," said retired IBM engineer Severino Rigo, who lives on the Quay of the Holy Martyrs.
"I have never seen such a large yacht moored so close to the Biennale site. It's like waking up in the morning and discovering that someone has built a block of office buildings where there used to be water, despite the complaints of the locals residents," said Enrico Tantucci, journalist for the local newspaper La Nuova Venezia
