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No Italian region is high-risk for COVID contagion in the latest weekly monitoring of the health ministry and the Higher Health Institute (ISS), for the second straight week. Tuscany remains in yellow zone: positive cases decrease, on Saturday 8 May they were 676.
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The road map for the return to normality begins to be organized by the Draghi government. The first date on the reopening calendar will be April 26th.
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Italian wedding destinations are increasingly popular, according to data released by the Florence-based Tourism research center Centro Studi ahead of the Buy Wedding in Italy Tour event running from February 23 through April 11, 2017.
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Aftershocks continue to keep people on edge in the areas of central Italy devastated by a series of recent earthquakes, including Sunday’s 6.5-magnitude quake near Norcia.
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Premier Matteo Renzi announced that Italy will host the 2017 G7 summit in Sicily, not in Florence as promised two years ago.
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Desite of the bad weather about 7.4 million Italians plan to travel at the long Liberation weekend, said Federalberghi.
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Nearly 20% of Italy’s artistic heritage is at risk for being damaged by landslides, according to a report released Wednesday by the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA).
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Pistoia has been chosen as Italian culture capital in 2017, the culture ministry’s jury announced Monday January 25, 2016.
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The Bank of Italy raised its forecasts for growth in the economy, to 0.7% this year and rising to 1.5% in 2016, while predicting a dip in the jobless rate next year.
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Italy’s Coast Guard deserves the Nobel Peace prize for saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of migrants, a Green Party spokesman suggested Friday.
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