HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
We are soon coming to celebrate with you!

Rome celebrates today the 2.773rd birthday since her fundation.

Rome's birthday celebrations for Natale di Roma include usually the historical re-enactments featuring costumed parades and gladiator fights.

This day, known as Natale di Roma, is the annual birthday celebration and it is based on the legendary founding of Rome by Romulus in 753 BC.

Events are usually centred in the Circus Maximus and include gladiator fights, the traditional founding of ancient the Roman towns when a trench or "mundus" was dug and offerings were thrown into it to encourage the gods to watch over its citizens and the final parade, that usually takes place along Via dei Fori Imperiali, with more than 1,500 costumed participants.

This year the celebrations will be online only; who would have ever thougt that such and Old Lady could be so social!

Soon we will be on the streets again; these days of lockdown will remain a distant memory and Rome will again open her motherly arms to welcome and embrace us all again; just like motehrs do to long gone cildren, gently whispering "you are finally back to Italy, I missed you".

See you soon!

We are RHI, and we care about your time in our country; let's make it worth and pleasurable.

FINALLY: Italy is a safe country!

For additional information click here.

It is safe to live in Italy and it is safe to travel to Italy.

Only 12 out of 7904 Italian cities are affected by such measures:

•             Lombardy: Bertonico, Casalpusterlengo, Castelgerundo, Castiglione D'Adda, Codogno, Fombio, Maleo, San Fiorano, Somaglia, Terranova dei Passerini.

•             Veneto: Vo’ Euganeo

The remainder of the country, including the Italian regions where the cities in temporary isolation are located, is safe and accessible. All services and activities for citizens and tourists are normally provided and the quality of life, for which Italy is famous world-wide, remains high.

For additional information, please consult the following links:

•             Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

•             Ministry of Health

•             National Institute of Health

•             EpiCentro, portal of epidemiology for public health

•             World Health Organization

The Italian National Health System, among the most efficient in the world, immediately implemented procedures directed at safeguarding citizens and tourists. Intense controls made it possible for the Italian Government to monitor and contain the spreading of Covid-19 from the earliest diffusion outside the Chinese borders.

The adoption of extraordinary preventive actions, such as the temporary closure of several sites or the suspension of several events, represents cautionary measures which have nothing to do with the spreading of the virus throughout the Italian territory. All services and activities for citizens and tourists are normally provided and the quality of life, for which Italy is famous world-wide, remains high.

MiBACT - Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale

Ministero della Salute

3 COMMON QUESTIONS ON TRAVELING TO ITALY

As we read about European countries closing borders against Italy we need to investigate deeper, without going mainstream on rumors and nonsensical panic.

All countries and everyone has the absolute right to do what they think best for their health.

Abiding to this point it is absolutely normal that Italians traveling from CONTROLLED areas are requested to quarantine wherever they arrive to; wouldn’t you do exactly the same at your own place?

Other Italians are just going around like, French, Germans, Americans, and many more do wile are also dealing with the disease.

1 – Is Italy doomed?

There are no main cities ot touristic attractions  that are dangerous currently.

@theocalitaly shows in the blog http://bit.ly/2uoF4Mi a map where you can see how far Venice and Milan are actually from the locked-down areas.

2 - But why so many cases in Italy?

Italian government keeps performing daily hundreds of tests to detect and other related cases; and this is the reason why you became aware of so many cases in our country; it is called prevention. And we are proud to detect in such a large advance the cases. Numbers are big, as our families are, and as our world-famous family gatherings are. Yes, we had fatalities, and we are sorry indeed, but they are statistically below the range and restricted to a certain age and/or medical condition.

3 - So: is it safe to go visit Italy?

I ‘ll use the U.S. CDC words (Centers for Disease Control And Prevention) http://bit.ly/399fh9W that state how basic hygiene can totally prevent contagion.

Just that simple.

So, based on the above points we recommend:

1-     Plan ahead your destinations and verify on accountable websites; not just the news.

2-     We Italians like large gatherings; if you do not, just book a quite place: there’s plenty and cozy!

3-     Keep performing your regular hygiene procedures, and…

Enjoy your stay in Italy!