SARDINIA -The road to the menhir sanctuary leads me across the sunbaked interior of the city, where emaciated cows huddle in a dry streambed under a rusted bridge. Somehow, I miss the turn-off and end up in a village where a hand-lettered sign over the main street advertises a Mutton Festival supposedly in progress. But there’s no evidence of festivities here: the yellow houses are all tightly shuttered against the scorching sun. 

 CASERTA - Over one hundred and fifty works, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, tapestries, books, and contemporary interpretations in dialogue with each other tell the story of the garden over the centuries. 

 RAVENNA - The Italian president travelled to the city on the 100^th anniversary of fascist attack on a cooperative farm building in the northern city and spoke of the importance of freedom and resistance.

 “Today here in Ravenna we remember a violent chapter of devastation and death, in a part of our history that would lead to the loss of freedom for Italians with the arrival of the dark period under the fascist dictatorship” he began by saying.

 “Democracy is born from the spreading of the awareness by everybody of the defensive of common freedoms.

 REGGIO CALABRIA - A clandestine network of entrepreneurs stretching across Italy and Eastern Europe has been dismantled by the Reggio Calabrian Anti-Mafia and Guardia di Finanza in a joint operation denominated “Planning”, leading to 12 arrests on charges of criminal conspiracy aggravated by aiding and abetting the ‘ndrangheta, the Calabrian version of the Mafia, police said.