Rome's first populist mayor Virginia Raggi, presents new regulations that ban everything from jumping in historic fountains to eating or drinking on monuments
, where the mayor on Friday ushered in a permanent get-tough approach on boorish behaviour by tourists and those Romans who exploit them.
While many of the measures already existed in temporary form or were rarely enforced, a unanimous city council vote on Thursday night made them permanent. And there's a new twist: disobeying these rules means local authorities can exile the badly behaved from the city's historic center for 48 hours. In France, the Louvre Museum in Paris closed for a day after workers said the crowds were too big to handle. In Amsterdam, the city plans to ban guided tours of the red-light district.
Raggi wouldn't talk politics. But this spring, Matteo Salvini, the fast-rising leader of the rival populist League Party, which is widely expected to go for the Italian capital's City Hall in the next local election, trashed her management, saying Rome had never been dirtier. On Friday, the local police could be seen telling tourists near the Spanish Steps to put their shoes back on and stop drinking beer.
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