Riccione, Italy, 29 May 2020. A closed restaurant with chairs piled inside on the city’s sea promenade.
The tourist season take-off period in the Italian ‘Riviera Romagnola’, in late May, coincides in 2020 with the end of a 3-months lockdown for Covid-19 in Italy. Half-empty beaches, face masks, and delayed urbanization works are the image of an atypical season start.