The Local Italy https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Italy's Royal Palace of Caserta bans carriages after horse’s death The Reggia di Caserta, one of southern Italy's biggest tourist attractions, will no longer allow horse-drawn carriage rides after a horse died in the summer heat. https://www.thelocal.it/20200818/italys-royal-palace-of-caserta-bans-carriages-after-horses-death Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:49:43 +0200 italys-royal-palace-of-caserta-bans-carriages-after-horses-death Hit and run driver arrested in Caserta A man who killed two young migrants in a hit and run accident on Sunday has been identified and arrested by police, Italian news outlets reported on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20190204/hit-and-run-driver-arrested-in-caserta Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:45:00 +0100 hit-and-run-driver-arrested-in-caserta Eight injured after powerful tornado in southern Italy A tornado has left eight people injured, one seriously, in southern Italy close to the city of Caserta, north of Naples. https://www.thelocal.it/20180313/eight-injured-tornado-caserta-southern-italy Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:25:28 +0100 eight-injured-tornado-caserta-southern-italy Another bit of the Caserta Palace has fallen off Experts are checking the stability of the Royal Palace of Caserta, one of Italy’s most visited tourist attractions, after part of a plaster ceiling in the queen’s apartments collapsed. https://www.thelocal.it/20171211/reggia-di-caserta-palace-ceiling-collapse Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:24:30 +0100 reggia-di-caserta-palace-ceiling-collapse Twelve families found living in Italian palace for €5 a month The Italian Court of Audit is investigating how 12 families came to be living in the grounds of a Bourbon palace in southern Italy for a peppercorn rent. https://www.thelocal.it/20160307/italian-families-live-for-15-a-month-in-grounds-of-italian-versailles Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:51:25 +0100 italian-families-live-for-15-a-month-in-grounds-of-italian-versailles Panic on Naples train as vandals attack Italian passengers were left terrified when a gang of vandals attacked a conductor who tried to stop them destroying carriages on a Naples train on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150827/terror-on-naples-train-as-vandals-attack Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:30:26 +0200 terror-on-naples-train-as-vandals-attack Pope apologizes for Fascist era persecution Pope Francis has asked forgiveness from Protestant Pentecostalists persecuted by Catholics under Italian fascism in the 1930s, religious news agency i.media said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140729/pope-asks-forgiveness-for-fascist-era-persecution Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:00:00 +0200 pope-asks-forgiveness-for-fascist-era-persecution Child cancer rate up in Italy's 'Land of Fires' The number of children suffering from cancer in Italy's "Land of Fires", an area where toxic waste has been dumped by the mafia, is significantly higher than elsewhere in the country, a new study has found. https://www.thelocal.it/20140704/child-cancer-rate-up-in-italys-land-of-fires Fri, 04 Jul 2014 14:32:00 +0200 child-cancer-rate-up-in-italys-land-of-fires Corpses 'dug up and abandoned' in cemetery Five coffins containing corpses have been found in an abandoned room in a cemetery in the southern Italian province of Caserta. Police suspect the corpses were dug up and placed there as part of a "personal vendetta" against families of the deceased. https://www.thelocal.it/20140317/corpses-found-abandoned-in-caserta-cemetery Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:20:00 +0100 corpses-found-abandoned-in-caserta-cemetery 17 people arrested over mafia waste dumping Italian police on Wednesday arrested 17 people accused of being part of lucrative illegal waste dumping in Campania, with ties to one of the regions most notorious mafia families. https://www.thelocal.it/20140305/police-blitz-over-camorra-mafia-waste-dumping Wed, 05 Mar 2014 12:05:00 +0100 police-blitz-over-camorra-mafia-waste-dumping Girl, 8, dodges bullet in fruit juice An eight-year-old girl in southern Italy got a shock during her school lunch break on Wednesday, when she found the tip of a bullet in her juice carton. https://www.thelocal.it/20140130/italy-schoolgirl-finds-bullet-in-fruit-juice Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:34:00 +0100 italy-schoolgirl-finds-bullet-in-fruit-juice 'Flying' fireman injured in feast day stunt A fireman dressed as Befana, the good witch of Epiphany Eve, is in hospital after falling while "flying" across the main square of Caserta, in southern Italy, at the weekend. https://www.thelocal.it/20140107/flying-fireman-injured-in-feast-day-stunt Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:31:00 +0100 flying-fireman-injured-in-feast-day-stunt