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What Italy has named the certificato verde or ‘green pass’ is currently just any official certificate that states you have either been fully vaccinated, have recently tested negative, or have antibodies after recovering from Covid-19. But the plan is to make those details visible in digital form, both online and via the government’s Immuni contact...

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Italy is loosening some of its restrictions on international travel and says it plans to open up to the world for tourism this summer. Although the rules on  getting into Italy will vary depending on the country you are travelling from, visitors from some countries can enjoy more relaxed rules. There’s now no quarantine requirement for travellers f...

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A Medieval hamlet perched in the Madonie mountains of Sicily, Castelbuono looks straight out of a fairy tale, with narrow, winding streets and a stone-walled castle from the 14th century.  Yet despite years of local efforts to turn it into a cultural hub through tourism and the establishment of an international music festival, Castelbuono has been...

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Sipping a craft beer on a warm spring evening in Catania, Sicily, Corrado Paterno Castello spares a thought for friends and colleagues he left behind in Milan, 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) north. "Today, between meetings, I had a swim at the beach," the 29-year-old entrepreneur told AFP, with a beaming smile. "The quality of life you have here is v...

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The owner of a beloved Italian-American gift shop that has been in business for more than 100 years is desperately looking to stay afloat at a time when the pandemic has delivered a blow both to his shop and to his family. Ernie Rossi recently returned to E. Rossi and Co, located on Grand St in the heart of Little Italy, for the first time in more...

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If anyone is strategically placed to take note of the people setting foot on the tiny Italian island of Giglio it’s Rosalba Pellegrini. Her bar and pastry shop, Fausto, faces the port, where ferries arrive from Porto Santo Stefano, a town on the Tuscan peninsula of Monte Argentario. A smattering of people, mainly hikers and cyclists, descended from...

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All regions and autonomous provinces will be in the lower-risk 'yellow' zone from Monday, the health minister said, as Italy's coronavirus situation continues to improve. All indicators show that Italy’s health data has continued to improve, according to the latest weekly health monitoring report released by the health ministry and Higher Health In...

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As Dr. Mario Sorlini sits patients down in a vaccination center near the badly affected Italian town of Bergamo, he explains a potential complication of the coronavirus vaccine. The second dose, he tells patients with terror-stricken faces, will fall on a date during the summer holidays. “‘But I’ll be in Sardinia then,’” he said that some had respo...

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When I landed in Milan on Monday morning, the airport was quiet. Cafes were open in the arrivals hall, taxi drivers were available and public transit was running. But most of the typical tourist booths selling SIM cards, tours and bus tickets were shuttered. And when I went to the Piazza del Duomo to get my first look at the Duomo di Milan, I found...

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2020 is a year that ravaged us all, bringing both human and economic loss to millions of people and forcing life and the events around us to come to a stop as we had once known them. In Italy, the collateral damage brought on by Covid-19 continues to be felt by many sectors, namely the wedding industry, leaving many within it to wonder how and when...

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