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Day-trippers to the fabled canal city of Venice who fail to pay 5 euros ($5.43) to enter the lagoon city's historic center during a time-limited pilot program launching later this month will face fines starting at 10 times the entrance fee, officials said on March 4.

This year I had the chance to travel across the countries around the Mediterranean, attending conferences, symposiums and events, from Crete to Sicily, from various corners of Spain to Italy and France, but two travels made me think more about the unique charm of Italy, how its far corners are different yet similar in terms of their concerns about tourism, and how they can put their unique gast

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic on Friday received the president of Italy's Veneto region, Luca Zaia, to discuss continued economic cooperation, investments and the results of Serbia's cooperation with Veneto to date.

With a group of Italian companies, Zaia is a guest at this year's Wine Vision by Open Balkan international wine fair.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with the president of Italy's Veneto region, Luca Zaia, in Belgrade on Thursday, noting the significance of cooperation between Veneto and Serbia.

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In a series of deadly events, Storm Ciarán wreaked havoc across Europe, resulting in at least 12 casualties. The storm's impact extended from Italy to northern Europe, causing widespread flooding and destruction.

Italians are fighting an invasion of predatory blue crabs with an attitude borne of centuries of culinary making do: If you can't beat them, eat them.

A violent storm, with extreme phenomena such as whirlwinds and "balls" of hail larger than tennis balls, up to 7-8 centimeters in diameter, affected the northern part of Lombardy - as well as Veneto - between Thursday night and Friday morning.

A stretch of Venice's Grand Canal turned bright green on May 28, prompting police to investigate amid speculation about a stunt by environmentalists.

Gondoliers could be seen punting through the phosphorescent waters, while tourists took photographs of the green area, from the Rialto Bridge up and along part of the Canal.

Drago Jančar, the internationally-acclaimed Slovenian writer, has won the 30th Latisana per il Nord Est international literary prize for his 2017 novel And Love Itself (In ljubezen tudi).

 Violent thunderstorms and hurricane-force winds left at least eight dead on Aug. 18 in France and Italy, uprooting trees in Tuscany and on the French island of Corsica and ripping away brick shards from St. Mark's famed bell tower in Venice. Over 100 boats in the Mediterranean Sea called for emergency help, authorities said.