The blazing orange letters of fire spelled out a familiar message in Italy’s South Tyrol province, an old call to resistance repurposed for the days of the coronavirus: ‘’Los von Rom ...

South Tyrol became a part of Italy in 1919, when the area south of Brenner was separated from Austria and awarded to Italy. Today, the region has a mix of Austrian and Italian influences ...

The first explosion came at dawn. The sleepy-eyed citizens of Bolzano, a quiet, German-speaking town in Italy’s Alpine province of South Tyrol, trembled wonderingly out of bed and into the streets.

But it doesn’t. Italy arrives but the Italians here speak German and call their province Sudtirol or South Tyrol, which was part of Austria until the end of the First World War. Other Italians ...

The blazing orange letters of fire spelled out a familiar message in Italy’s South Tyrol province, an old call to resistance repurposed for the days of the coronavirus: ‘’Los von Rom ...