According to ansa.it, a woman was stretchered down from the second-highest tier of the Leaning Tower of Pisa Thursday after suffering a panic attack and shortness of breath, the fire brigade in the Tuscan city said. She was reported to have made a quick recovery. Read article
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According to agi.it, a boat carrying a group of tourists has sunk off Sardinia’s coast. All the passengers have been rescued. Read article
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According to metro.co.uk, British tourist and his fiancée drowned off the coast of Sicily after he jumped in to save her from the current. Andrew Sturgess, 34, and Carmen Spiridon, 25, died despite the efforts of off-duty lifeguards to resuscitate them. It is thought he was trying to rescue her after she got into trouble […]
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According to ansa.it, Romanian screenwriter and film director Razvan Radulescu was robbed and left “practically naked” while travelling to serve as jury member for the famed Venice Film Festival, festival director Alberto Barbera said on Wednesday. Radulescu was robbed of all his belongings during his trip to Italy from France on a high-speed TGV train […]
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According to ansa.it, a British tourist drowned Thursday off Gallipoli in Puglia. Mark Leonard Peter Ryan, 44, called for help after suffering chest pains and bathers pulled him out but an ambulance team was unable to revive him. Read article
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Telegraph.co.uk reports that three months after a group of British holidaymakers were charged €64 (£54) for four ice creams in Rome, a bunch of Italian tourists were horrified to be charged the equivalent of £85 for four espresso coffees laced with liqueurs in Venice. The visitors from Rome were handed the whopping bill after sitting […]
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The Local Italy reports that a Canadian base jumper died in northern Italy on Monday, after a thousand-metre fall went wrong in the Trentino-Alto Adige region in northern Italy. The 47-year-old was attempting to jump from the Sass Pordoi peak in the Dolomites, which stands at around 3,000m, Italian daily La Repubblica reported. A base […]
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According to theepochtimes.com, a 50-year-old German tourist was killed Sunday in a gondola crash in Venice, Italy, according to Sky News. The man, his wife, and three children, and the gondolier fell out of the gondola as it collided with a ferry near the Rialto bridge and the man was likely crushed between the gondola […]
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As reported by Eturbonews.com, a Sicilian tourist beach was the scene of more than 100 people thought to be Syrians whose boat ran aground, a port official said. Six migrants to Italy whose dead bodies were found on Saturday on the beach. “The bodies were reported by employees of a beach resort” near the island’s […]
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According to independent.com.mt, two Maltese tourists – a father and son – in western Sicily were involved in an accident which led to the death of two motorcyclists yesterday afternoon, although they were not seriously injured. Elio Barbera, a 30-year-old from Trapani, and 23-year-old Davide Sanna, from the adjacent town of Paceco, died on impact […]
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