Venice entry fee dates for 2024 were revealed today. The fees commence on 25th April, a public holiday in Italy. Mayor Luigi Brugnaro confirmed on Thursday that the fee would exclusively apply to tourists on day trips, exempting those staying overnight in Venice.
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Italy’s agriculture minister, Francesco Lollobrigida, refuses to resign over accusations of treating the country’s rail service as his “personal luxury car”. He allegedly forced a high-speed train to make an unscheduled stop near Rome so he could disembark and continue on his way.
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Italian schools are set to address machismo, sexism, and both psychological and physical violence against women in a groundbreaking initiative. The relationship education project was announced by Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara today.
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Filippo Turetta, the 22-year-old engineering student accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend, will be extradited to Italy. Sources say a German court has ordered the extradition.
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Eight people are missing and a two-year-old migrant girl dies after a boat sinks in waters off Lampedusa. Forty-two people were successfully rescued.
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Country icon Dolly Parton has given her 1973 hit “Jolene” a rock twist, collaborating with Roman rock sensations Måneskin for the track featured on her newly released album, “Rockstar,” which dropped last Friday.
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Italy’s mafia maxi trial, the largest of its kind in three decades, convicted over 200 peoples of various crimes. The trial was held in a specially built courtroom in Calabria, where judges heard evidence of ruthless tactics of ’Ndrangheta crime syndicate.
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Filippo Turetta was arrested on suspicion of murdering his 22-year-old ex-girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin. He was apprehended in Germany after an eight-day search.
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A body found by firefighters near Barcis in the northern province of Pordenone on Saturday morning is in all likelihood that of Giulia Cecchettin. The young woman went missing in Veneto last weekend along with her ex-boyfriend Filippo Turetta, Venice prosecutor Bruno Cherchi said.
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The ongoing archaeological dig at San Casciano baths has uncovered another incredible find. Following on from earlier bronze sculptures, now the archaeologists have unearthed a marble Apollo statue standing around two metres.
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