Italy's cultural sector on its heels but hopeful amid lockdown
China DailyThe Colosseum is seen empty, as Pope Francis leads the Via Crucis procession during Good Friday celebrations at St. Peter's Square in Vatican with no public participation, due to an outbreak of the coronavirus disease, in Rome, Italy, on April 10, 2020. Since the national lockdown went into place on March 10, all of the country's more than 4,500 museums have been closed, as its many theaters, cinemas, concert halls and galleries. For sure, some of the country's best known cultural sites are impossible to close: "Cities like Rome, Florence, and Venice are like open-air museums, available to anyone passing by," Patrizia Asproni, president of ConfCultura, an association of museum operators, told Xinhua. "The floods in Venice last November cost us 3 million euros and now this lockdown has already cost us another 8 million euros in lost ticket sales," Fortunato Ortombina, the superintendent and artistic director of the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, said in an interview.
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