I am writing this post one day before April 3, the initial deadline date for Italy’s nationwide lockdown in response to the coronavirus emergency. Now that Italy has extended the lockdown until Easter — an arbitrary deadline that will likely be extended once again — who knows how long it will be before the country reopens to its own residents, much less the rest of us who are pining to see her again.
Italy’s New UNESCO Sites in Padua, Bologna, and Tuscany
The 2021 UNESCO session raised Italy’s number of World Heritage Sites to 58—the most of any country in the world.