In the summer of Covid one Italian out of two (47. 5%) will go on vacation and many will extend it even beyond the canonical months of the holidays . The data of the Enit Observatory – National Tourism Agency are the result of research on a sample of 3000 Italians: a research that describes a first recovery of the sector, and also tells of a new wa...
READ MOREEuropean Union countries rushing to revive their economies and reopen their borders after months of coronavirus restrictions are prepared to block Americans from entering because the United States has failed to control the scourge, according to draft lists of acceptable travelers reviewed by The New York Times. That prospect, which would lump Ameri...
READ MOREThe Trulli are considered a historic site because of its history dating back to the 14h century. There are 1,500 Trulli houses located in the small town of Alberobello. According to National Geographic, “People began to settle in Alberobello around a thousand years ago, and the construction of Trulli in the area most likely began at that time.” Alt...
READ MOREAshley Sodano was visiting her friend’s beach house in Calabria, in southwest Italy, when she decided to approach the cute lifeguard on duty, Luigi Vorraro. “He spoke not a single word of English at the time, but thankfully, I understand Italian,” Ashley says. They ended up dating long-distance for two years before he moved to the States in 2016. A...
READ MOREThe EU's €2 trillion recovery package for economies blighted by the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent lockdown aims to avoid a damaging and long-lasting recession. It proposes helping out industries particularly badly hit by the lockdown, such as tourism. And a report from the Vienna Institute for Economic Studies looking at ways of spending...
READ MOREAfter a three-month closure due to the nationwide lockdown, the Cathedral of Siena along with the Opera Museum have reopened to the public. Access will be free until July 31; visitors may opt to make a donation, and any collected sum will serve to fund a study for the next conservation projects for the Duomo complex. The Cathedral and the museum ar...
READ MOREThe abbey of San Giovanni in Venere has a millenary history, before the advent of Christianity was the place of worship of the goddess Venus, in this place you can experience atmospheres that are lost in the night of the centuries. In addition, the Abbey offers a breathtaking landscape. We are in the heart of Abruzzo, in one of the most important h...
READ MOREItaly is open for travel again. For many Europeans at least, including Brits. And hotels are reopening from city to country and coast. Other tourists should be welcome starting July 1, as Europe’s travel ban unwinds. American vacationers will probably have to hold off a bit longer. A study has shown Americans are dreaming of their next Italy trip....
READ MOREItaly reopened to tourists from the European Union and the Schengen Area on 3 June, allowing unrestricted travel after months of lockdown due to the covid-19 crisis, however travel restrictions remain in place for visitors from outside Europe, including the US. The US recommends that travellers "reconsider" travel to Italy, with a Level 4 Health Ad...
READ MORECiao from Rome to all the friends of We the Italians. Dear friends, I hope you are well in these difficult times, when as if the coronavirus were not enough, the incomprehensible, unjustifiable and very wrong attacks on the statues of Columbus have arrived. On We the Italians I'm publishing all the updates: every day there are about 10 articles abo...
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