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#93 My own Ferragosto (English)

Fifteenth of August, the laziest day of the year. Even more than at Christmas, the whole country is at a standstill. Shut down by that one holiday, Ferragosto, which for many Italians means the start of the summer holidays. The whole of Italy shifts down to the lowest gear. The whole of Italy horizontal for …

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#41 In ferie (English)

Rome is empty. Under the burning sun, the Italian capital feels quiet and deserted, the streets abandoned. When I took my cousin – who had been here in Rome with me for a few days to have a taste of la dolce vita – to the train station last Friday around five o’clock in the afternoon, this …

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