Shops, restaurants and churches across Italy began opening their doors for the first time in weeks on Monday as lockdown restrictions continued to ease.
"Venice needed a break," Melissa Conn, director of the nonprofit art conservation group Save Venice, told NBC News."Nobody wanted this to happen but ... now we've been forced to do it."
She added that the unexpected break could allow the city to rethink how heavy a role tourism plays in the economy, which has seenGondoliers in Venice wear protective face masks while they resume their service on the Grand Canal on Monday as Italy eases some more of the lockdown measures.Beauty salons and bars are being allowed to open their doors on a phased basis across the country, as long as they follow government safety measures.
Churches are also preparing for congregants to return. The Rev. Riccardo Giacon at Venice's Basilica dei Frari said worshippers will have to walk in six feet apart from one another and maintain that distance during mass with seats measured out and marked. Schoolchildren wearing protective mouth masks and face shields attend a course in a classroom at Claude Debussy college in Angers, western France on Monday.Italy was among several European nations returning to something more like regular life.
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