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 A grieving family was forced to halt a funeral in southern Italy when it emerged that they were about to bury the wrong man. https://www.thelocal.it/20161108/italian-funeral-halted-after-corpse-mix-up Tue, 08 Nov 2016 11:16:18 +0100 italian-funeral-halted-after-corpse-mix-up Mourners were left in shock at a Rome funeral when the coffin caved in, reportedly as the deceased man was particularly "heavy". https://www.thelocal.it/20150216/horror-as-heavy-mans-coffin-splits-at-italian-funeral Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:31:00 +0100 horror-as-heavy-mans-coffin-splits-at-italian-funeral An elderly Italian man died after falling over in a cemetery near Treviso while visiting his wife’s grave, Italian media reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20150209/italian-man-dies-while-visiting-wifes-grave Mon, 09 Feb 2015 13:25:00 +0100 italian-man-dies-while-visiting-wifes-grave Archaeologists in Florence have unearthed a burial ground by the city’s famed Uffizi Gallery, heralded as "an exceptional piece of documentary evidence" which will open a window onto life in Tuscany hundreds of years ago. https://www.thelocal.it/20140213/burial-site-for-plague-victims-unearthed-in-florence Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:58:00 +0100 burial-site-for-plague-victims-unearthed-in-florence A pensioner has died after plunging into her husband's tomb in Pompeii, southern Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20131031/woman-dies-after-falling-into-husbands-grave Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:19:00 +0100 woman-dies-after-falling-into-husbands-grave The family of Meredith Kercher, the British student murdered in Perugia in 2007, does not want Amanda Knox, whose retrial for the murder begins in Florence on Monday, to visit her grave. https://www.thelocal.it/20130929/kerchers-do-not-want-knox-to-visit-grave Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:42:00 +0200 kerchers-do-not-want-knox-to-visit-grave