Rome considers banning barbarian tourists

Tourism

Rome considers banning barbarian tourists

14 Feb, 2019

Rome to compile list of tourists "guilty of crimes against the city."

Rome mayor Virginia Raggi is working on a proposal to prevent "barbarian tourists" from returning to the capital, according to Italian news agency ANSA.

Raggi is reportedly seeking the help of Rome's embassies in compiling a list of tourists "guilty of crimes against the city" before issuing the offenders with a so-called daspo or ban from returning to the city.

The duration of the ban is also up for discussion. To make the idea a reality, Raggi will seek a meeting with Italy's interior minister Matteo Salvini, ANSA reports.

The mayor brought forward the proposal following the latest incident of tourists behaving badly, this time at the 17th-century Barcaccia fountain in Piazza di Spagna.