The crowds are back in the cities: queues outside Milan bars, traffic jams and traffic jams at Turin restaurants.

With the transition from the orange zone to the yellow zone starting today December 13 in Lombardy, Piedmont, Calabria and Basilicata, it is possible to return to have lunch or an aperitif at the tables of cafes, bars and restaurants. Thanks to the sun and pre-holiday weather, the center of Milan is once again populated, with long lines both to access the shops and to have an aperitif at the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, a stone’s throw from the Duomo, where there are Queues Entrance of the premises. The number of reservations in downtown restaurants is also high, although not everyone has decided to lift the blinds.

In Como many have returned to stroll through the center where the shops have remained open. Not all bars and restaurants in the city have reopened. Some blinds also from well-known meeting places in Piazza Cavour have been closed and the managers of some bars have explained that they still do not know how to behave with the new rules of the yellow zone and have invited customers to continue with the take away food .

Sold out in Turin restaurants

In Piedmont, the streets of central Turin fill with people again. Between the arcades of Via Roma, those of Via Po and the streets of Via Garibaldi there were traffic jams but above all people, who flocked to the center for Christmas shopping, creating long queues outside the shops. commercial. The bars and restaurants have also reopened and at the foot of the Mole there has been a full on the reservation front.

The controversy over the meetings in Naples

Images that go alongside those of Campania (which, however, is still in the orange zone, ed), and in particular in the center of Naples, where yesterday there were rivers of people in the shopping streets. The mayor of Naples, Luigi de Magistris, responded to the accusations about the gatherings: “I hope the litany of the wonder of seeing the streets with people does not begin, because it seems to me that I am living the festival of stupidity.”

“If it is written in the Dpcm that in the orange zone people can go out, then they go out – continued the mayor of Naples -. And if someone is surprised, it is a person who does not have a particularly oxygenated amount of brain. De Magistris assured: “There are no gatherings and even if they were held, the police would intervene. People walk as they do in Bologna, Florence, Venice, Palermo, Bari, Verona, and Berlin. As happens in all parts of the world.

The outburst of a Foggia restorer

Finally, in Foggia, the outburst of a young restaurateur was recorded in a post published on his Facebook page after yesterday’s images (which have gone viral on the web) of the pedestrian zone of the very crowded city in hours of the afternoon: they remain closed, because I cannot accommodate my clients and in the meantime, can people meet in the center? “, read. Foggia is among the 20 municipalities in Apulia that have returned to being the orange zone after the ordinance of the President of the Region Michele Emiliano on Monday, December 7.

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