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July temperatures are 22–24 °C (71.6–75.2 °F) north of river Po, like in Milan or Venice, and south of river Po can reach 24–25 °C (75.2–77.0 °F) like in Bologna, with fewer thunderstorms; on the coasts of Central and Southern Italy, and in the near plains, mean temperatures goes from 23 °C to 27 °C (80.6 °F).
Gran Gioves, Monte Bianco. Apulia. 47.0 °C (116.6 °F) June 25, 2007. Foggia. −14.0 °C (6.8 °F) February 1929. San Giovanni Rotondo. Basilicata.
Acqua alta. Venice, Piazza San Marco. Venice, Campo Santa Margherita. An acqua alta ( / ˌækwə ˈæltə /, [ 1] Italian: [ˈakkwa ˈalta] ⓘ; lit. 'high water') is an exceptional tide peak that occurs periodically in the northern Adriatic Sea. The term is applied to such tides in the Italian region of Veneto.
In-the-know travelers will tell you October is one of the best times to visit this floating city. Venice swells with crowds and humidity in the summer but by October the masses have subsided ...
In 2024, Venice has welcomed as many as 75,000 tourists per day, BI previously reported. Venice's city center is only home to 50,000 residents.
An engraving by Luigi Sabatelli (1772–1850) of Florence during the plague in 1348, based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron. Decameron; The plague of Florence. The Black Death was present in Italy between 1347–1348. [ 1] Sicily and the Italian Peninsula was the first area in then Catholic Western Europe to be reached by the bubonic ...
Also known as. Le Grand Hiver. Le lagon gelé en 1709, by Gabriele Bella, part of a lagoon which froze over in 1709, Venice, Italy. The Great Frost, as it was known in England, or Le Grand Hiver ("The Great Winter"), as it was known in France, was an extraordinarily cold winter in Europe in 1708–1709, [1] and was the coldest European winter ...
Harry's Bar has long been frequented by famous people, and it was a favourite of Ernest Hemingway.Other notable customers have included Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, inventor Guglielmo Marconi, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, Maria Callas, Richard Halliburton, Truman Capote, Orson Welles, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Princess Aspasia of Greece ...