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Italy 3-day lockdown over Easter Holiday
May 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Italy enforced a strict 3-day lockdown over Easter weekend in an effort to prevent a surge in Covid-19 cases over the holiday. All Italian regions were in the “red-zone” – the highest tier of restrictions. Non-essential movement was banned;...
No more Cruise Ships entering in Venice
May 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Italian authorities have approved a ban on cruise ships entering the historic center of Venice. The decision came in response to a request from the U.N. cultural body UNESCO. Large ships will now have to dock at the city’s industrial port until a...
From New York to Milan on the first “quarantine-free” flight
May 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Travelers from New York arrived in Italy’s Milan Malpensa airport on the route’s first Covid-tested and “quarantine-free” flight on April 3. “It is the first ever flight from New York since the end of March 2020. It took a year to restart this...
Rome welcomes its first female traffic controller
May 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Rome welcomes its first female traffic controller to work atop the retractable podium in Rome’s famous Piazza Venezia. Cristina Corbucci claimed the coveted role, making her debut in late March. The white-gloved vigili (traffic officers)...
New Coronavirus restrictions in Italy
April 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
In early March, Italy announced that it would further tighten coronavirus restrictions in three of its 20 regions, after health officials warned of the growing spread of new, highly contagious variants. "The virus is spreading rapidly across...
New discovery in Pompeii
April 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Archaeologists in Italy have unveiled a ceremonial chariot they discovered near the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The four-wheeled carriage was found near a stable where three horses were uncovered back in 2018. Experts believe it was likely used...
Italian ambassador killed in Congo
April 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Italians mourned the death of Luca Attanasio, the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was killed in an ambush with his bodyguard and their driver while taking part in a humanitarian convoy with the World Food Program in...
A landslide plunges a 100-year-old cemetery into the sea
April 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Hundreds of coffins tumbled from their resting place in northwest Italy when a landslide destabilized a 100-year-old cliffside cemetery in late February. Video showed emergency workers in boats searching for the estimated 200 coffins in the waters...
Etna nature's firepower
April 2021 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Since Feb. 16, Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, has been giving off an impressive demonstration of nature's firepower, coloring the night sky in shocking hues of orange and red. The volcano produced ash and small lava stones which rained...
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