A Belgian collector had illegal finds, dating back to the sixth century BC, from illicit excavations in Puglia. Italian police recovered the finds, worth €11million, and returned them to Italy following unsuccessful legal appeals by the collector.
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The University of Padua elects a female rector for the first time in its 800-year-old history. Daniela Mapelli will start her six-year tenure on 1st October 2021.
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At least seven migrants, one of them pregnant, drown after their boat capsizes five miles off the island of Lampedusa early on Wednesday.
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Rome’s annual Shakespearean festival returns for its 18th edition from 30 June until 10 October. The city’s Globe Theatre, in the heart of Villa Borghese, has been renamed after Gigi Proietti, who died last November on his 80th birthday.
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The Hypogeum, or ‘backstage’, of Rome’s Colosseum is fully open to the public for the first time. The restored walkways allow visitors to fully explore the underground tunnels and chambers of the 2,000-year-old monument.
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Prosecutors accuse a nightclub in Sardinia of “epidemic negligence” following a Covid-19 outbreak there last summer. The nightclub, owned by the former Formula One team boss Flavio Briatore, is linked to clusters of infections across Italy.
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UNESCO says the historic centre is in danger if cruise ships do not dock at another port. The Italian government announced earlier this year it would ban these ships from the historic centre. The plan was for the ships to divert to the industrial port of Marghera.
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Production at the Ilva steel plant in the southern city of Taranto can continue Italy’s top administrative court ruled.
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Camara Fantamadi, a 27-year-old Malian farm worker, died after picking tomatoes in scorching sun. Regional authorities ban farm work between 12.30pm and 4pm “in conditions of prolonged exposure to the sun”.
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Campaigners against cruise ships in Venice protested against the huge vessels docking in the city’s port. Previously, prime minister Mario Draghi’s government declared cruise ships banned from the historic centre.
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