Day 7. Monday morning, there seemed to be slightly more vehicles moving on the street, maybe one or two more....
Took a quick walk to the piazza San Carlo, through via Roma, the luxury shopping street. All the high end/middle end shops were closed, their winter end sales announcements were still displayed on the shop windows.
On one end of the street is piazza Castello, the large piazza was basically empty, except lined with police cars on one side and a few cars from the TV news group on the other side.
Piazza San carlo is on the other end of the street. Usually Monday, there are less people going around, strange that I found it hard to tell if in the
piazza there were usually more people than today or it was more or less just the same.
The prestigious high-end cafes on the square were closed, the tables and chairs were till occupying the corners of the piazza, but the huge parasols that stand by the table were shut closed.
The group of seniors who used to sing in the piazza had dispeared, each 'imprisoned' in their own home. Will they feel lonely without their music and songs?
I returned home through Galleria San Federico.
Theaters, cafes, and stores are all locked up, and only one supermarket was left alone to continue to provide services.
Realised that after one week of lock down, the streets are cleaner and quieter, the quality of the air is much improved.
However, one has to step out of the house to feel it.
In the evening, someone was singing loudly from his balcony....
Location : via Roma/Piazza Castello/Piazza San Carlo/Galleria San Federico
Italy's Liberation Day (Festa della Liberazione), also known as the Anniversary of the Liberation (Anniversario della liberazione d'Italia), Anniversary of the Resistance (anniversario della Resistenza), or simply April 25 is a national Italian holiday commemorating the end of the Italian Civil War and the end of Nazi occupation of the country during World War II.
The date was chosen by convention, as it was the day of the year 1945 when the National Liberation Committee
of Upper Italy (CLNAI) officially proclaimed the insurgency in a radio
announcement, announcing the seizure of power by the CLNAI and the death
sentence for all fascist leaders (including Benito Mussolini, who was shot three days later).
By May 1, all of northern Italy was liberated, including Bologna (April 21), Genoa (April 23), Milan and Turin (April 25), and Venice
(April 28). The liberation put an end to twenty years of fascist
dictatorship and five years of war. It symbolically represents the
beginning of the historical journey which led to the referendum of June
2, 1946, when Italians opted for an end to the monarchy and the creation
of the Italian Republic, which was followed by the adoption of the
republic's Constitution of Italy in 1948.
The actual date was chosen in 1946, and in most Italian cities, marches
and parades are organised to commemorate the event. On April 22, 1946,
the Disposizioni in materia di ricorrenze festive ("Provisions on festive occasions") decree created the national holiday. The bill states that Per celebrare la totale liberazione del territorio italiano, il 25 aprile 1946 รจ dichiarato festa nazionale
("In celebration of the total liberation of the Italian territory,
April 25, 1946 is declared a national holiday"). On May 27, 1949, bill
260 made the anniversary a permanent, annual national holiday.
( Texts extracted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Day_(Italy))
Parade passing by via Pietro Micca going towards piazza Castello.
