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Commuters and tourists alike were stranded by a major train strike across Italy on a sweltering Thursday, with cancellations affecting even high-speed lines that are usually guaranteed during ...
Hundreds of flights across Italy were canceled Saturday, forcing travelers at the peak of tourist season to make alternate plans, after air transport unions went ahead with a planned work stoppage ...
In a statement, the airline said: “We are aware of possible multiple strike actions planned in Italy on June 8 impacting air traffic services “Like all airlines operating to and from Italy, we ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
Italy has a well developed transport infrastructure. The Italian rail network is extensive (16,723 km (10,391 mi)), especially in the north, and it includes a high-speed rail network that joins the major cities of Italy from Naples through northern cities such as Milan and Turin. The Florence–Rome high-speed railway was the first high-speed ...
The inauguration of the Naples–Portici railway on 3 October 1839, the first Italian railway line. The first Railways were introduced in Italy when it was still a divided country, a few decades before the political unification . The first line to be built on the peninsula was the Naples–Portici line, in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which ...
The Biennio Rosso (English: "Red Biennium" or "Two Red Years") was a two-year period, between 1919 and 1920, of intense social conflict in Italy, following the First World War. [ 1] The revolutionary period was followed by the violent reaction of the fascist blackshirts militia and eventually by the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini in 1922.
On 4 July 2022, Italy declared a state of emergency on five northern regions, due to a severe drought, one of the worst of the decade. On 11 July 2022, Portugal declared a state of emergency due to forest fires. On 15 July 2022, the UK declared a national emergency following extreme Red Weather Heatwave warnings that indicated a danger to life.