Added security at Italian cultural sites is causing higher admission fees and longer waits to get in. “At the Uffizi, the first site where security was tightened after the deadly London bombings on July 7, the new measures are prompting crowds to turn away. The thousands who brave long lines and summer heat to glimpse Botticelli’s Birth of Venus have found the wait is getting longer because of metal detectors and a limit of 780 visitors allowed inside at a time. Ticket sales fell by 11 percent at the Uffizi in July, but rose by 1 percent at all of Florence’s museums combined.”