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Lower Crime Rate Than Florence: 14 Places in Italy's South

Fourteen places in Italy's South and islands, counted down on one measure: crimes reported to the police per resident, by province, from Il Sole 24 Ore's 2026 crime index (2025 data from the Interior Ministry), cross-checked against ISTAT's 2024 table; famous towns (the Amalfi Coast, Tropea, Alghero, Ostuni, Taormina, Maratea) are counted with their provinces (ISTAT's list of municipalities). With ISTAT's victim survey on unreported pickpocketing and on theft in big cities and small towns, Italy's and the U.S. homicide rates (ISTAT, CDC), the U.S. State Department's travel advisories, ISTAT's 2024 and 2025 water statistics, U.S. DOT nonstop flights (2025 and January–June 2026), the airport and airline announcements for Bari (Aeroporti di Puglia, United, Italia Vola), UNESCO, italia.it, Sardegna Turismo and WMO climate normals for the everyday details. Ranks, ratios and counts across provinces are our calculations.

Sources checked: 10/16/2026, 10/18/2026, 10/20/2026

Every number in the video is listed below with where it comes from and the date we checked it. Numbers we calculated ourselves are marked as our calculation. If a page has changed since then, please tell us in the comments under the video or at [email protected], and we'll correct it.

What we said, and where it comes from

“The U.S. State Department's travel advisory for Italy, updated in September 2026, keeps Italy at Level 2 (Exercise Increased Caution) because of terrorism, then says petty crime is common, especially in popular tourist locations and on public transportation, including trains, and that most crimes against foreigners are crimes of opportunity like purse snatching, pickpocketing and car break-ins. It names no city, train line or region for crime.”

RSS item "Italy - Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution", pubDate Thu, 10 Sep 2026: « Exercise increased caution in Italy due to terrorism. » … « Petty crime is common, especially in popular tourist locations and on public transportation, including trains. Stay aware of your surroundings. Most crimes against foreigners are crimes of opportunity, like purse snatching, pickpocketing, and car break-ins. » The text names no Italian city or region. The idea engine first logged the item on 10/16/2026 (weekly report W42); the feed's own date is 09/10/2026, and the feed does not say what changed against the previous version. The advisory page itself (travel.state.gov …/destination.ita.html) refuses scripts (HTTP 403); the RSS item carries the same text and is linked in the description as the page. Re-checked 10/18/2026: the RSS item still reads « Italy - Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution », pubDate Thu, 10 Sep 2026, with the same petty-crime sentences.

Last updated by the publisher: 09/10/2026 · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 01/16/2027

“France and Spain carry the same Level 2.”

RSS items « France - Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution » and « Spain - Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution » (idea-engine W42 log, 10/16/2026; same feed). Re-checked 10/18/2026: both items still at Level 2 in the feed.

Last updated by the publisher: 2026 · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 01/16/2027

“In 2024 the province with the most crime reported by the police for its population was Milan (close to 7,000 per 100,000 residents), then Florence and Rome; Italy as a whole about 4,000.”

Our calculation

IstatData 73_67_DF_DCCV_DELITTIPS_9 (« tasso di delittuosità », crimes reported by the police to the judicial authority per 100,000 residents), TYPE_CRIME TOT, 2024: ITC45 Milano 6989; ITE14 Firenze 6566.8; ITE43 Roma 6434.1; IT Italia 4069.6. Ranks among the 106 provinces and metropolitan cities: our sort. The rate divides by residents, so visitors' wallets count in the numerator but visitors are not in the denominator; crimes not reported to the police are not counted (C10). Re-checked 10/18/2026 (SDMX csv for 2022-2024, 2024 is still the latest year in this dataflow; WebFetch of the same query returned 6989, 6566.8, 4069.6). Since 10/12/2026 a newer year of the same measure exists (Il Sole 24 Ore's 2026 index, 2025 data, C16-C17); this claim stays as the 2024 cross-check.

Last updated by the publisher: 2024 data (released 2025–2026) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 12/31/2027

“Naples (the metropolitan city) is 13th of 106, a little above the national rate, and the only province of the South and the islands above it; for pickpocketing Florence reports the most per resident, then Rome, Milan and Venice, while Naples is below the Italian average (Florence about six times Naples); Naples reports more than three times the national rate of car theft.”

Our calculation

Same dataflow, 2024: ITF33 Napoli TOT 4489.4 (13th; ×1.10 Italy, our ratio); every other ITF/ITG province below 4069.6 (our filter). PICKTHEF (« borseggi »): ITE14 Firenze 1122, ITE43 Roma 792.3, ITC45 Milano 791.3, ITD35 Venezia 714.5, IT 238.8, ITF33 Napoli 184.1 (1122/184.1 = 6.1, our ratio). CARTHEF (« furti di autovetture »): ITF33 635.4 vs IT 176.2 (×3.6, our ratio). Re-checked 10/18/2026. ISTAT 2024 cross-check for the Naples downside (our sort of the same dataflow, 106 provinces): bag-snatching « BAGTHEF » 48.3 (4th; IT 22.9, ×2.1), street robbery « STREETROB » 61.0 (4th; IT 28.1, ×2.2), motorcycle theft « MOTORTHEF » 155.3 (1st; IT 42.2), car theft 3rd. « The only southern province above the national rate » holds for 2024 only: on the 2025 data Foggia is above it too (C17).

Last updated by the publisher: 2024 data · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 12/31/2027

“Palermo sits just under the national rate and Bari further under; for car theft Foggia reports even more than Naples, Palermo is close behind, and the seven provinces with the most car theft are all in the South.”

Our calculation

Same dataflow, 2024: ITG12 Palermo TOT 3945.9 (24th), ITF42 Bari 3341.2 (47th), both below IT 4069.6. CARTHEF top 8: ITF41 Foggia 708.3, IT110 Barletta-Andria-Trani 680.8, ITF33 Napoli 635.4, ITG12 Palermo 616.3, ITG17 Catania 533.1, ITF31 Caserta 447.7, ITF42 Bari 441.2, then ITE43 Roma 395.4 (our sort). Re-checked 10/18/2026. « The seven provinces with the most car theft are all southern » holds for 2024 only: on the 2025 data Rome is 5th (C19).

Last updated by the publisher: 2024 data · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 12/31/2027

“The quietest province is Oristano in Sardinia, then Potenza in Basilicata and Benevento inland from Naples (about a third of Milan's rate); most of the ten quietest provinces are in the South or on the islands; Matera and Lecce are well down the list.”

Our calculation

Same dataflow, 2024 TOT, lowest ten: ITG28 Oristano 1730.1, ITF51 Potenza 1994.9, ITF32 Benevento 2234 (2234/6989 = 0.32, our ratio), ITG16 Enna, ITC44 Sondrio, ITD34 Treviso, ITD41 Pordenone, ITG26 Nuoro, ITF61 Cosenza, ITG14 Agrigento: 7 of 10 in the South and Islands (our count). ITF52 Matera 2668.6 (89th), ITF45 Lecce 2813.2 (82nd). Re-checked 10/18/2026. Lecce (82nd) is above Matera (89th) in 2024; on the 2025 data the two swap (Matera 81st, Lecce 86th, C17).

Last updated by the publisher: 2024 data · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 12/31/2027

“In Italy's national victim survey (people 14 and older, interviews November 2022 to July 2023), about one person in a hundred had been pickpocketed in the past year; theft from the person (bag snatching, pickpocketing, theft of personal items) was 2.3% nationally and 5.3% in the centers of the big metropolitan cities, more than twice as common; in municipalities of up to 2,000 people it was 1.1%, about half the national rate. The survey asks people living in Italy. Aloud (long version, 10/18/2026): "Across Italy, theft from the person is more than twice as common in the centers of the big cities, and about half as common in towns of up to two thousand people." Aloud (TV fix of 10/18/2026, the comparison made explicit): "Across Italy, theft from the person is more than twice as common in big-city centers as in the country overall. In towns of up to two thousand people, it's about half as common."”

« Nei 12 mesi precedenti l'intervista condotta tra il 2022 e il 2023 sono quasi 1 milione 195mila i cittadini (il 2,3%, erano il 3,7% nel 2015-2016) che dichiarano di aver subìto reati personali contro la loro proprietà, come furti di oggetti personali (1,0%), borseggi (1,0%), scippi (0,7%). » « Questo è vero per i reati predatori contro gli individui (5,3% contro una media nazionale del 2,3%) ». Figure 2: municipalities up to 2,000 inhabitants 1.1 (per 100). Interviews « tra novembre 2022 e luglio 2023 ». The survey covers residents (people 14+, households); it reports non-Italian citizens as a group but not newcomers or retirees from abroad. Re-checked 10/18/2026 (pdf text: « 5,3% contro una media nazionale del 2,3% », « borseggi (1,0%) »).

Last updated by the publisher: 06/09/2025 · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 06/30/2028

“People who ride buses or the metro nearly every day were pickpocketed five times as often as people who hardly ever do.”

« la quota di coloro che sono stati borseggiati tra gli utenti giornalieri o quasi giornalieri dei mezzi pubblici di trasporto è 5 volte più alta rispetto a coloro che non utilizzano mai o quasi mai i mezzi pubblici (la prevalenza raggiunge il 2,8% contro lo 0,5%) ». Re-checked 10/18/2026 (pdf text: « 5 volte più alta », « 2,8% contro lo 0,5% »).

Last updated by the publisher: 06/09/2025 · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 06/30/2028

“Robbery is rarer; people over 60, who go out less at night, are less exposed than average: about one in a thousand robbed in a year.”

« La popolazione sopra i 60 anni, che esce di meno la sera, è meno esposta alla vittimizzazione del reato di rapina (0,1%). » National robbery victims: 0.2 %. Re-checked 10/18/2026 (pdf text: « rapina (0,1%) »).

Last updated by the publisher: 06/09/2025 · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 06/30/2028

“About three in ten completed pickpocketings never reach the police; phones, wallets and cash are reported less often, bank cards nearly always. The survey found no big territorial differences in reporting (except violent crimes, reported more in the Centre).”

Our calculation

Figure 4: completed pickpocketing (« Borseggi ») reported to the police 70.9 per 100 victims (100 − 70.9 = 29.1, our subtraction). « la propensione a sporgere denuncia diminuisce quando vengono sottratti beni come cellulari, portafogli e denaro contante: ad esempio, nel reato di borseggio, la differenza di denuncia nel caso della sottrazione di denaro rispetto a quella delle carte bancarie arriva fino a 29 punti percentuali in meno (dal 99,6% al 70,4%). » « Sulle denunce non emergono grandi differenze territoriali, ad eccezione dei reati violenti, come le rapine tentate o consumate e le aggressioni, che risultano essere denunciati in misura significativamente maggiore al Centro (65,2%) ». Re-checked 10/18/2026 (pdf text: Figure 4 « Borseggi 70,9 »; « cellulari, portafogli e denaro contante »; « non emergono grandi differenze territoriali »).

Last updated by the publisher: 06/09/2025 · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 06/30/2028

“About one household in a hundred met an in-person scam (people posing as officials, or selling contracts, goods or services), less than half the share of 2015–2016.”

« L'1,1% delle famiglie invece dichiara raggiri avvenuti di persona tramite falsi funzionari o vendite di contratti e/o di merci e servizi, una percentuale diminuita di oltre la metà rispetto agli anni 2015-2016 (2,7%). » Re-checked 10/18/2026 (pdf text: « L'1,1% delle famiglie invece dichiara raggiri avvenuti di persona tramite falsi funzionari »).

Last updated by the publisher: 06/09/2025 · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 06/30/2028

“In 2024 Italy recorded 327 homicides, about 0.55 per 100,000 residents (said with C13: under a tenth of the U.S. rate). The same report: homicides linked to organized crime run at 0.09 per 100,000 in the South and Islands, 0.01 in the Centre and none in the North; Campania has the highest rate for men, 1.74 per 100,000 men (not said aloud since the 10/18/2026 F rewrite).”

Our calculation

« Nel 2024 si sono verificati 327 omicidi » · « 0,55 per 100mila » · « Gli omicidi riconducibili alla criminalità organizzata, prevalentemente maschili, hanno un tasso dello 0,09 nel Mezzogiorno, dello 0,01 nel Centro e sono assenti nel Nord » · « Nel caso degli uomini le prime tre regioni per concentrazione del fenomeno sono la Campania, il Molise e la Sardegna, che hanno un tasso rispettivamente di 1,74, 1,39 e 1,04 ogni 100mila abitanti. » Source of the data: Ministry of the Interior, Direzione centrale della polizia criminale (homicides recorded by the police). « Nearly all » is our reading of the rates (the Mezzogiorno has more residents than the Centre and nine times its rate). Re-checked 10/18/2026 (pdf text: « Nel 2024 si sono verificati 327 omicidi », « 0,55 », « 0,09 nel Mezzogiorno, dello 0,01 nel Centro e sono assenti nel Nord »).

Last updated by the publisher: 11/25/2025 · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 11/30/2026

“The U.S. homicide rate from the CDC is close to six per 100,000 (5.9 in 2024), so Italy's (0.55, C12) is under a tenth of the U.S. level; Italy counts homicides recorded by the police and the U.S. counts death certificates.”

Our calculation

CDC FastStats, Assault or Homicide: « Number of deaths: 20,162 » « Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.9 », source « National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2024) via CDC WONDER ». Our ratio 0.55 / 5.9 = 0.093, said in the F version (10/18/2026) as Italy "under a tenth of the U.S. level" (S12). Italy's figure counts homicides recorded by the police (C12), the CDC's deaths certified as assault/homicide; the difference is named on the sources page, not aloud in the F version. Re-checked 10/18/2026 (WebFetch: « Number of deaths: 20,162 », « Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.9 », 2024). Ratio to Italy's 0.55 (C12): 10.7, about ten times.

Last updated by the publisher: 2024 data (page retrieved 10/16/2026) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 12/31/2026

“In July 2025 the Palermo edition of La Repubblica reported a robbery in which an American couple was attacked with a club; Italy's interior minister promised the city more police; the paper noted that the authorities said, going by the number of crimes, Palermo was not in an emergency.”

La Repubblica Palermo, 07/21/2025, column « Se volete conoscere la nazionalità dei turisti in vacanza a Palermo, leggete la cronaca nera »: « una rapina con aggressione a colpi di mazza contro una coppia di americani » · « Chi governa (la città e il Paese) puntualizza che, in base al numero degli eventi criminosi, Palermo non è in emergenza. » · « il ministro degli Interni, Matteo Piantedosi, ha promesso che manderà altri agenti a Palermo. » It is an opinion column that reports these facts; the video says only these three facts, not the column's view. Re-checked 10/18/2026 (curl: « una rapina con aggressione a colpi di mazza contro una coppia di americani », « Palermo non è in emergenza », « Matteo Piantedosi, ha promesso che manderà altri agenti a Palermo »).

Last updated by the publisher: 07/21/2025 · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: —

“Pink flamingos nest in the big lagoon at Cabras, in Oristano province, and fishermen still work the shallow water.”

Sardegna Turismo (the Region of Sardinia's tourism site), « Stagno di Cabras »: « A pochi passi dal golfo di Oristano » … « qui nidificano germano reale, fistione turco e fenicottero rosa » … « La pesca tradizionale è sostentamento e risorsa culturale. » The page does not say how many flamingos or in which months. Re-checked 10/18/2026 (WebFetch: « A pochi passi dal golfo di Oristano », « qui nidificano germano reale, fistione turco e fenicottero rosa », « La pesca tradizionale è sostentamento e risorsa culturale »).

Last updated by the publisher: undated (retrieved 10/16/2026) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/16/2027

“Italy's newest province-by-province count of reported crime, Il Sole 24 Ore's 2026 crime index with 2025 data from the Interior Ministry, puts Milan first of 106 (about 7,000 reports per 100,000 residents), then Florence and Rome; the eleven highest are all in the North and Center, and Naples is 12th (13th the year before). The lowest of all 106 is Oristano in Sardinia, about a quarter of Milan's rate. Italy reported about 2.36 million crimes in 2025, 1.8% fewer than in 2024; across Italy that is about 4,000 per 100,000 residents.”

Our calculation

Lab24 table « Classifica finale » (2026 edition): 1 Milano 7017.5 (228287 reports), 2 Firenze 6374.34, 3 Roma 6094.42, 4 Bologna, 5 Torino, 6 Rimini, 7 Genova, 8 Prato, 9 Venezia, 10 Livorno, 11 Imperia, 12 Napoli 4435.29 (131056 reports; « posizionePrecedente » 13), 106 Oristano 1706.58 (2505 reports; previous position 106). Page text: « dal 2019 (dati riferiti al 2018) al 2026 (dati riferiti al 2025) »; « il numero di denunce ogni 100mila abitanti »; credits « Elaborazione Sole 24 Ore su dati del dipartimento della Pubblica Sicurezza del ministero dell'Interno »; population « Istat al 1 gennaio 2026 » (WebFetch 10/18/2026). Lab24 article of 10/12/2026: « I reati denunciati in Italia scendono a 2,36 milioni nel 2025, l'1,8% in meno rispetto al 2024 ». LaPresse, 10/12/2026, reports the same ranking (Milan over 7,000, Florence 6,374, Oristano 1,707, about a quarter of Milan's; Naples -1.6%, Palermo -9.2%). Ours: Italy's rate = 2,355,536 reports (sum of the 106 rows) ÷ 58,942,824 residents (the population the rows imply, = ISTAT's 58,942,828 on 01/01/2026, 017 C4) = 3,996.3 per 100,000; Oristano ÷ Milan = 0.243; « the eleven highest all North and Center » = our reading of ranks 1-11. The index counts crimes the police forces reported to the judicial authority, per resident; crimes not reported are missing (C10); visitors' and commuters' thefts count while only residents are in the denominator (the article: city users raise the metropolitan population from 21.3 to 23.2 million a day). The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I. Which Italy figure (10/18/2026, after the source check's cross-check read the page's « MEDIA ITALIA » bar): that bar on every Lab24 table is the simple mean of the 106 provincial figures (the page script: « this.mediaItalia = totaleItalia / this.righeOriginali.length »; car theft 96,34, pickpocketing 122,15, total 3.425,48), not Italy's overall rate. Our « Italy's level » divides all of Italy's reports by Italy's residents (car theft 167.33, pickpocketing 224.47, total 3,996.31 per 100,000), the way ISTAT's own Italy row is built (C3: Italy 4,069.6 in 2024). Against the simple mean the ratios would be higher (Bari car theft ×4.3); the video says « Italy's level » or « Italy as a whole » and means the overall rate.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“On the 2025 count the six places in this video rank: Naples 12th of 106, Palermo 33rd, Bari 49th, Matera 81st, Lecce 86th and Oristano 106th, the lowest in Italy. Naples is a little above Italy's overall rate (about a tenth); Palermo is about a tenth under it, Bari about a fifth under, Matera and Lecce about a third under, and Oristano well under half. All six have a lower rate than Florence (Naples about 70% of Florence's, Oristano about a quarter). Naples and Foggia are the only southern provinces above Italy's rate.”

Our calculation

Lab24 « Classifica finale » 2026, rows (posiz, nome, indice per 100,000, punti = reports, previous position): 12 Napoli 4435.29, 131056, prev 13; 33 Palermo 3593.97, 42959, prev 24; 49 Bari 3271.81, 39853, prev 48; 81 Matera 2741.89, 5148, prev 90; 86 Lecce 2686.08, 20466, prev 85; 106 Oristano 1706.58, 2505, prev 106; 2 Firenze 6374.34, 63010; 23 Foggia 4072.07. Ours, against Italy's 3,996.3 (C16): Naples ×1.11, Palermo ×0.90, Bari ×0.82, Matera ×0.69, Lecce ×0.67, Oristano ×0.43; against Florence: 0.70, 0.56, 0.51, 0.43, 0.42, 0.27; every southern row above 3,996.3: Napoli and Foggia only. Careful: the comparison with Florence holds per resident only. In raw reports Naples (131,056, a metropolitan city of about 3 million) has about twice Florence's 63,010; the other five have fewer than Florence. ISTAT's 2024 table (C3-C6) ranks the same six Naples 13th, Palermo 24th, Bari 47th, Lecce 82nd, Matera 89th, Oristano 106th: Lecce and Matera swap places between the two years (their rates are within about 5% of each other in both), the rest keep their order. The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“Naples' downside: in 2025 it reported the 2nd-highest rate of car theft of Italy's 106 provinces (close to four times Italy's rate) and the most motorcycle theft; bag-snatching (4th) and street robbery (5th) ran at more than twice Italy's rate. Pickpocketing was below Italy's average (16th).”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026 tables, Napoli: « Furti di autovetture » 2nd, 620.472 per 100,000 (18334 reports; previous position 3); « Furti di motociclo » 1st, 164.069 (4848); « Furti con strappo » 4th, 60.9845 (1802); « Rapine in pubblica via » 5th, 58.514 (1729); « Furti con destrezza » 16th, 191.042 (5645). Italy's rates (ours, reports ÷ population as in C16): car theft 167.3, motorcycle theft 42.5, bag-snatching 22.2, street robbery 25.8, pickpocketing 224.5; Naples ×3.71, ×3.86, ×2.75, ×2.27, ×0.85. ISTAT 2024 cross-check: car theft 3rd (×3.6), bag-snatching 4th (×2.1), street robbery 4th (×2.2), motorcycle theft 1st, pickpocketing 20th (×0.77) (C4). The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“In 2025 the ten provinces with the most car theft per resident were Foggia, Naples (2nd), Barletta-Andria-Trani, Catania, Rome (5th), Bari (6th), Caserta, Palermo (8th), Brindisi (9th) and Salerno (10th): nine of the ten in the South, Rome the exception, and five of them places in this video (Naples, Bari, Palermo, Brindisi, Salerno). Aloud: "Palermo is one of five places on this list that rank among Italy's ten provinces with the most car theft." (On ISTAT's 2024 table the top seven were all southern, C5.)”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026 « Furti di autovetture », ranks 1-10: Foggia 756.739, Napoli 620.472, Barletta-Andria-Trani 616.067, Catania 425.085, Roma 422.282, Bari 415.903, Caserta 383.95, Palermo 381.408, Brindisi 298.958, Salerno 242.001; 11 Campobasso 204.599, 12 Milano 200.147. « Nine of ten in the South » is our count (ISTAT's South and Islands; Rome is in the Center). The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“Palermo: 33rd of 106 in 2025, down from 24th, with reported crime down about 9% in a year. Its downside is vehicles: the 8th-highest car theft (more than twice Italy's rate), the 2nd-highest motorcycle theft and the 3rd-highest moped theft; pickpocketing runs at well under half Italy's rate.”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026: « Classifica finale » Palermo 33rd, 3593.97, previous position 24; « Furti di autovetture » 8th, 381.408 (4559 reports); « Furti di motociclo » 2nd, 143.645; « Furti di ciclomotori » 3rd, 36.0577; « Furti con destrezza » 47th, 90.2697. Ours against Italy (C16 method): car ×2.28, motorcycle ×3.38, moped ×3.47 (Italy 10.4), pickpocketing ×0.40. LaPresse 10/12/2026: Palermo « -9,2% ». The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“Bari: 49th of 106 in 2025, but 6th for car theft, about two and a half times Italy's rate; pickpocketing is about a fifth of Italy's rate.”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026: « Classifica finale » Bari 49th, 3271.81; « Furti di autovetture » 6th, 415.903 (5066 reports; previous position 7); « Furti con destrezza » 72nd, 46.7131. Ours against Italy: ×2.49 and ×0.21. ISTAT 2024: car theft 7th (×2.5), C5. The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I. Which Italy figure (10/18/2026, after the source check's cross-check read the page's « MEDIA ITALIA » bar): that bar on every Lab24 table is the simple mean of the 106 provincial figures (the page script: « this.mediaItalia = totaleItalia / this.righeOriginali.length »; car theft 96,34, pickpocketing 122,15, total 3.425,48), not Italy's overall rate. Our « Italy's level » divides all of Italy's reports by Italy's residents (car theft 167.33, pickpocketing 224.47, total 3,996.31 per 100,000), the way ISTAT's own Italy row is built (C3: Italy 4,069.6 in 2024). Against the simple mean the ratios would be higher (Bari car theft ×4.3); the video says « Italy's level » or « Italy as a whole » and means the overall rate.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“Matera: 81st of 106 in 2025 (90th the year before), with almost no pickpocketing (under a tenth of Italy's rate). What stands out is fire: the province reports more fires to the police per resident than any other in Italy, in 2025 and in 2024, well over ten times Italy's level; forest fires, which the tables list separately, also run high (3rd of 106, about ten times Italy's level). The tables do not say what burned.”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026: « Classifica finale » Matera 81st, 2741.89, previous position 90; « Incendi » 1st, 168.838 per 100,000 (317 reports; previous position 1); « Incendi boschivi » (forest fires, a separate offence) 3rd, 38.8807 (73); « Furti con destrezza » 92nd, 18.1088; « Furti con strappo » 101st. Ours against Italy: fires ×15.4 (Italy 10.95), pickpocketing ×0.08. ISTAT 2024 « ARSON » (« incendi »): Matera 74.9, 1st of 106 (IT 9.2). The tables do not say where the fires were (town or countryside) or what burned; say only « fires reported to the police ». The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I. Check pass 10/18/2026 (all 48 Lab24 crime types recomputed): fire is what stands out, not the only high number; forest fires (« Incendi boschivi ») are 3rd (×10.3) and damage followed by fire 18th (×2.1); beatings (×1.33) and threats (×1.20) are a little above Italy's level. Hence "What stands out here is fire" aloud, not "the one high number". 10/18/2026 (fresh-viewer fix): the viewer asked what kind of fires; the script now says "fires" (« Incendi », ×15.42 = 168.838 ÷ 10.951, Italy = 6,455 reports ÷ 58,942,824 residents) and, separately, "forest fires run high here, too" (« Incendi boschivi », 3rd, 38.8807 ÷ 3.771 = ×10.31); nothing about what burned. "Fifteen" is no longer said aloud (it could be heard as "fifty"): "well over ten times".

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“Lecce: 86th of 106 in 2025, just under Matera (the two swap places in the 2024 table), with street robbery among the lowest in Italy (91st of 106, about a sixth of Italy's rate). Home burglary is not low: it runs at about Italy's rate.”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026: « Classifica finale » Lecce 86th, 2686.08 (previous position 85); « Furti in abitazione » 52nd, 237.687 (1811 reports); « Rapine in pubblica via » 91st, 4.46237. Ours against Italy: burglary ×0.99 (Italy 241.0), street robbery ×0.17, total ×0.67. ISTAT 2024: burglary 247.8, 55th (×0.94). The same tables put Lecce 5th for « Danneggiamenti seguiti da incendio » (damage followed by fire, 53.9 per 100,000): not proposed for the script (the tables do not say what was damaged). The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I. Check pass 10/18/2026: burglary is not the only exception, so the script no longer calls it "the exception". Above Italy's level in Lecce on the same tables: damage followed by fire 5th (×3.7), forest fires 16th (×2.8), fires 19th (×1.7); car theft 16th (×0.93) is close to Italy's level.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/18/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“Oristano: the lowest reported crime rate of Italy's 106 provinces in 2025, as in 2024, and the lowest rate of theft (about a fifth of Italy's). A small province: the table implies about 147,000 residents (our division of reports by rate; aloud "about one hundred fifty thousand people").”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026: « Classifica finale » Oristano 106th, 1706.58, previous position 106; « Furti » 106th, 353.578 (519 reports); « Truffe e frodi informatiche » 103rd, 309.977 (455 reports). Ours against Italy: thefts ×0.21 (Italy 1,683.5), fraud ×0.61 (Italy 506.3). ISTAT 2024: Oristano 1730.1, 106th (C6). Province population implied by the table: about 147,000 (2505 ÷ 1706.58 × 100,000; ours). The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I. Check pass 10/18/2026 (all 48 Lab24 crime types recomputed): the earlier line "fraud is the one crime where Oristano comes closest to the rest of Italy" was wrong and is no longer spoken. Oristano is 6th of 106 for extortion (« Estorsioni » 27.932 per 100,000, 41 reports, ×1.37 Italy's 20.44) and above Italy's level on several small categories (drug production and trafficking ×1.40, road homicides ×1.86 with 5 reports); beatings (×0.99) and threats (×0.95) sit at about Italy's level. Fraud (×0.61) is kept here as background only.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/18/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“In 2025 only four airports in the South had scheduled nonstop flights to the U.S., all between April and October: Naples, Catania, Palermo and Bari (Bari, the only one in Puglia: Neos to New York JFK, July through October). Sardinia's airports (Cagliari, Olbia, Alghero) and Brindisi had none, only a handful of charter passengers; no southern airport had a scheduled U.S. nonstop from November through March. Aloud (TV fix of 10/18/2026): "And in 2025, every nonstop between the South and the U.S. stopped for the winter." (no scheduled southern row in months 1-3 or 11-12 of 2025).”

Our calculation

U.S. DOT « International_Report_Passengers » (« All nonstop commercial passenger traffic traveling between international points and U.S. airports. »; public domain; rows updated 08/07/2026), our query of 10/18/2026: every Italian airport (fg_wac 450) in 2025. Airports with scheduled passengers: FCO, MXP, VCE (Rome, Milan, Venice) and, in the South, only NAP (months 4-10; 327,251 passengers both directions: EWR UA, JFK DL, ATL DL, PHL AA, ORD AA, plus two small rows), CTA (5-10; JFK DL 56,945), PMO (5-10; EWR UA 20,720, JFK NOS 15,371) and BRI (7-10; JFK NOS = Neos, 8,141). Charter-only in the South: BDS 38, CAG 21, OLB 154, AHO 11, QSR (Salerno) 82, CUF 19, PSR 1 passengers for the year. No rows at all for any other Puglia airport (e.g. Foggia). No scheduled southern row in months 1-3 or 11-12. Same result as 017 C15-C18 (checked 10/16/2026). Routes change from year to year; 2026 data are not public yet.

Last updated by the publisher: 2025 data (rows updated 08/07/2026) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 01/31/2027

“Matera's Sassi, the old districts built into the natural caves, with the park of rock churches around them, have been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1993; UNESCO counts more than a thousand dwellings.”

UNESCO World Heritage Centre, « The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera »: « Date of Inscription: 1993 »; « comprises a complex of houses, churches, monasteries and hermitages built into the natural caves of the Murgia »; « this remarkable and intact troglodyte settlement contains more than a thousand dwellings and a large number of shops and workshops ». (curl 10/18/2026; WebFetch gets HTTP 403.)

Last updated by the publisher: undated (retrieved 10/18/2026) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/18/2027

“The art of the Neapolitan pizza maker, the pizzaiuolo, has been on UNESCO's list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity since 2017.”

UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, « Art of Neapolitan 'Pizzaiuolo' »: « Inscribed in 2017 (12.COM) on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity ». (curl 10/18/2026.)

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“Ballarò is Palermo's oldest and largest market, mostly food (spices, fresh and dried fruit), and the morning is the best time to visit.”

italia.it (Italy's official tourism portal, Ministry of Tourism and ENIT), « Ballarò »: « È il mercato più antico e grande di Palermo. » « Il mercato si estende lungo via Ballarò, tra via Casa Professa e piazza del Carmine. » « Si trovano soprattutto alimentari: spezie, frutta fresca e secca. » « Il momento migliore per visitare il mercato è la mattina. » (WebFetch 10/18/2026.) 10/18/2026: 'said' corrected from "busiest in the morning" to the page's own « il momento migliore per visitare il mercato è la mattina » (the best time to visit).

Last updated by the publisher: undated (retrieved 10/18/2026) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/18/2027

“In Lecce a Roman amphitheater fills the southern half of the main square, Piazza Sant'Oronzo; it was built in the age of the emperor Augustus and once held thousands of spectators (12,000 to 14,000 on this page); the part visible today is about a third of the original structure.”

italia.it, « Anfiteatro romano di Lecce »: « L'anfiteatro romano di Lecce occupa prepotentemente la metà sud della centralissima piazza Sant'Oronzo di Lecce. » « La parte oggi visibile rappresenta circa un terzo delle dimensioni originali della struttura » « costruita in età augustea e rimaneggiata circa un secolo dopo sotto Adriano » « una capienza tra le 12.000 e le 14.000 persone ». (WebFetch 10/18/2026.) Other sources give other capacities; say « thousands » if the capacity is not needed.

Last updated by the publisher: undated (retrieved 10/18/2026) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/18/2027

“Lecce's summers are hot: July and August afternoons average 91°F, and about 76 days a year reach 86°F or more (1991-2020 normals).”

Our calculation

WMO normals 1991-2020, station Lecce (16332), NOAA NCEI archive: « Daily_Maximum_Temperature » July 32.53 °C, August 32.66 °C (91 °F, our conversion); « Number_of_Days_with_Maximum_Temperature_>=_30_Deg_C » annual 76.06 (30 °C = 86 °F). Same figures as 017 C11. Downloaded 10/18/2026.

Last updated by the publisher: 1991-2020 normals · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/18/2027

“Dollar conversions, if any euro price is said, use the ECB reference rate of 10/16/2026, €1 = $1.1253.”

Our calculation

ECB reference rate EXR.D.USD.EUR.SP00.A: 2026-10-13 1.1188, 2026-10-14 1.1195, 2026-10-15 1.1208, 2026-10-16 1.1253 (curl 10/18/2026). The ECB says its reference rates are for information only.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/16/2026 · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 11/16/2026

“Naples and Palermo have the reputation: on a big U.S. travel forum, people ask whether they are safe ("Is Palermo safe?", 2025; "Is Naples Italy dangerous to visit?", 2013).”

The documented belief behind the hook (S1), not a crime figure. Rick Steves Travel Forum, Italy: thread « Is Palermo safe? », opening post 07/20/2025 05:18 PM from a poster in « Canada »: « I have been reading about issues in Palermo, on another travel forum. » « Specifically about escalating violence towards tourists. » Thread « Naples crime », opening post 07/11/2013 09:17 PM from « whittier, ca, usa »: « Is Naples Italy dangerous to visit?. » with pickpockets and crime named. Both pages re-read with WebFetch on 10/18/2026 (titles, dates, locations and the sentences above confirmed). The video says only that the two cities have the reputation; it quotes neither post.

Last updated by the publisher: 07/20/2025; 07/11/2013 · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: —

“Bari's flights to the U.S. come and go: the nonstop to New York it had in 2025 (Neos to JFK, C25) did not come back in 2026; since May 2026 United has flown a summer nonstop from Bari to Newark, near New York, four times a week, in its place. Aloud (TV fix of 10/18/2026, fewer years and airlines): "Bari has just one nonstop flight to America, a summer route to Newark, near New York." "Just one" = United is "The only carrier to serve Southern Italy's gateway to Puglia" (United newsroom, 04/28/2026) and the only Bari row in the U.S. DOT 2026 data (BRI-EWR, UA, months 5-6); "summer" is United's own word, and the script does not say when it ends.”

Our calculation

Aeroporti di Puglia (the Puglia airports' operator), news of 10/17/2025, « DAL 1° MAGGIO UNITED AIRLINES COLLEGHERÀ BARI A NY »: « Aeroporti di Puglia comunica che dal prossimo 1° maggio la compagnia United Airlines opererà il collegamento quadrisettimanale tra Bari e New York, aeroporto di Newark. » United Airlines newsroom, 04/28/2026, « United Airlines Launches New Summer Flights to Split, Bari, Glasgow and Santiago De Compostela »: « The only carrier to serve Southern Italy's gateway to Puglia, with four weekly flights starting May 1. » (WebFetch 10/18/2026.) Italia Vola, 03/13/2026, « Neos sospende i voli Bari-New York »: « Neos comunica la sospensione del collegamento diretto Bari – New York per la Summer 2026 » (WebFetch 10/18/2026; the airport operator's statement it reports is no longer in Aeroporti di Puglia's news list, which still carries the Neos 2025 launch of 12/10/2024). U.S. DOT International_Report_Passengers, our query of 10/18/2026 (data through 06/2026): 2026 rows for Bari are only BRI–EWR, carrier UA, scheduled 4515 (month 5) and 4589 (month 6); no BRI–JFK row in 2026 (Neos had planned to restart on 06/02/2026); no other Puglia airport has a scheduled 2026 row (BDS: charters, 5 passengers in January). "Summer" is United's own word for the route; whether it runs past October 2026 is not in any source we read, so the script does not say. "Instead" = the airport operator's framing that the New York link remains with United.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/17/2025, 03/13/2026, 04/28/2026; DOT data through 06/2026 · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 01/31/2027

“Bari is Puglia's capital. In its old town, the crypt of the Basilica of Saint Nicholas holds the relics of Saint Nicholas, better known as Santa Claus, which arrived in 1087; in the old town's narrow lanes, women make orecchiette, Puglia's typical pasta, by hand; the seafront promenade (Lungomare) runs along the Adriatic past some of the city's most beautiful buildings.”

italia.it (Italy's official tourism portal, Ministry of Tourism and ENIT), « Cathedral of St Nicholas »: « It stands imposingly in the Old City of Bari » … « its crypt preserves and protects the relics of St Nicholas, patron saint of Puglia's capital city. » italia.it, « Bari, the city of the longest promenade in Italy » (Discovering Bari): « In 1087, with the arrival of the relics of St Nicholas of Myra, commonly known as Santa Clause, Bari became a thriving religious centre uniting the East and West. » « When strolling through the maze of narrow streets, pause to marvel at the women preparing typical Apulian orecchiette pasta, made traditionally by hand. » (curl and WebFetch 10/18/2026.) The page spells it « Santa Clause »; the script says Santa Claus. Re-read 10/18/2026 (curl, long version): the guide page also says « Finally, Lungomare di Bari offers a perfect opportunity to admire the Adriatic Sea and some of the city's most beautiful buildings. » and « In 1087, with the arrival of the relics of St Nicholas of Myra, commonly known as Santa Clause ». The page title calls Bari « the city of the longest promenade in Italy », but its text does not, so the script does not say "longest".

Last updated by the publisher: undated (retrieved 10/18/2026) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/18/2027

“Since May 2026 Delta has flown nonstop from Olbia, in Sardinia's northeast, to New York JFK; from Oristano, on the west coast, getting home means a drive across the island or a change of planes. (In 2025 no Sardinian airport had a scheduled U.S. nonstop, C25.)”

Our calculation

U.S. DOT International_Report_Passengers, our query of 10/18/2026 (data through 06/2026): OLB–JFK, carrier DL, scheduled 1761 (month 5 of 2026) and 6000 (month 6); no scheduled row for any Sardinian airport in 2025 (C25); the only earlier scheduled Sardinia rows in the whole dataset are AHO–JFK AZ, 120 passengers in 01/2002, and AHO–LKK, 12 in 07/2003, so the script does not call the Delta route the first. Sardegna Turismo (the Region of Sardinia's tourism site), « Come arrivare in Sardegna »: « Golfo Aranci, assieme al porto e aeroporto di Olbia, è una delle porte d'ingresso per il nord est della Sardegna. » (WebFetch 10/18/2026.) Oristano sits on the Gulf of Oristano on the west coast (C15). Delta's season end (reported as October by the trade press) is not in a primary source we read and is not said. "A drive across the island or a change of planes" is our reading of the two facts (Olbia in the northeast, Oristano in the west).

Last updated by the publisher: 2026 data (through 06/2026, rows updated 2026); page undated (retrieved 10/18/2026) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 01/31/2027

“On the 2025 count the eight places added to the list rank: Siracusa 27th of 106, Salerno 56th, Vibo Valentia 61st, Sassari 72nd, Brindisi 75th, Messina 92nd, Agrigento 101st and Potenza 105th. With the six of C17, the fourteen count down from Naples (12th) through Siracusa, Palermo, Bari, Salerno, Vibo Valentia, Sassari, Brindisi, Matera, Lecce, Messina, Agrigento and Potenza to Oristano (106th, the lowest in Italy). All fourteen have a lower rate than Florence (Naples about 70% of Florence's, Potenza about 31%, Oristano about 27%); only Naples is above Italy's overall rate, and Siracusa sits just under it.”

Our calculation

Lab24 « Classifica finale » 2026, rows (posiz, nome, indice per 100,000, punti = reports, previous position): 27 Siracusa 3907.18, 14943, prev 27; 56 Salerno 3131.39, 32983, prev 52; 61 Vibo Valentia 3062.26, 4591, prev 55; 72 Sassari 2881.93, 13562, prev 65; 75 Brindisi 2834.08, 10589, prev 83; 92 Messina 2650.51, 15746, prev 92; 101 Agrigento 2395.09, 9749, prev 97; 105 Potenza 1968.14, 6643, prev 105; 2 Firenze 6374.34, 63010. Ours, against Italy's 3,996.3 (C16): Siracusa ×0.98, Salerno ×0.78, Vibo Valentia ×0.77, Sassari ×0.72, Brindisi ×0.71, Messina ×0.66, Agrigento ×0.60, Potenza ×0.49; against Florence: 0.61, 0.49, 0.48, 0.45, 0.44, 0.42, 0.38, 0.31. Our check of raw counts: each of the eight has fewer reports than Florence, so of the fourteen only Naples (131,056) has more raw reports than Florence (C17). Our gaps between neighbours in the 2025 order: Naples to Siracusa 11.9%, Siracusa to Palermo 8.0%, Palermo to Bari 9.0%, Bari to Salerno 4.3%, Salerno to Vibo Valentia 2.2%, Vibo Valentia to Sassari 5.9%, Sassari to Brindisi 1.7%, Brindisi to Matera 3.3%, Matera to Lecce 2.0%, Lecce to Messina 1.3%, Messina to Agrigento 9.6%, Agrigento to Potenza 17.8%, Potenza to Oristano 13.3%. ISTAT 2024 cross-check (the C3-C6 dataflow; our sort of the 106 TOT values; Italy 4,069.6, Florence 6,566.8 and 2nd): Siracusa 3,895.5 (27th), Salerno 3,247.1 (52nd), Vibo Valentia 3,196 (55th), Sassari 3,124.6 (59th), Brindisi 2,802.6 (84th), Messina 2,665.8 (90th), Agrigento 2,475.7 (97th), Potenza 1,994.9 (105th). By our reading, in 2024 the fourteen ran Naples, Palermo, Siracusa, Bari, Salerno, Vibo Valentia, Sassari, Lecce, Brindisi, Matera, Messina, Agrigento, Potenza, Oristano: only Palermo and Siracusa, and the Brindisi, Matera and Lecce trio, change order between the two years. ISTAT area codes checked in the codelist CL_ITTER107 (ITG19 Siracusa, ITF35 Salerno, ITF64 Vibo Valentia, ITG25 Sassari, ITF44 Brindisi, ITG13 Messina, ITG14 Agrigento, ITF51 Potenza, ITE14 Firenze). The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“Italy's South and islands as this video uses the term (Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia) hold 31 of the 106 provinces in the index; in 2025 only two of them, Naples and Foggia, were above Italy's overall rate. Six of the ten provinces with the least reported crime per resident are in the South: Ragusa, Agrigento, Benevento, Enna, Potenza and Oristano. In 2025 Siracusa had the highest rate of Sicily's nine provinces (in 2024 Catania and Palermo were higher), and Sassari the highest of Sardinia's four.”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026 « Classifica finale », our count by region (the region of each row from the page's own province list, field « IDregione »): 31 rows in the six regions; above Italy's 3,996.3 only Napoli 4435.29 and Foggia 4072.07 (C17). Ranks 97 to 106: Macerata, Ragusa 2511.88, Sondrio, Treviso, Agrigento 2395.09, Pordenone, Benevento 2177.4, Enna 2164.66, Potenza 1968.14, Oristano 1706.58 (6 of 10 in the six regions, our count). By region in 2025 (rank of 106): Sicily: Siracusa 27, Palermo 33, Catania 35, Trapani 62, Caltanissetta 84, Messina 92, Ragusa 98, Agrigento 101, Enna 104. Sardinia: Sassari 72, Nuoro 78, Cagliari 80, Oristano 106. Campania: Napoli 12, Caserta 50, Salerno 56, Avellino 91, Benevento 103. Puglia: Foggia 23, Bari 49, Barletta-Andria-Trani 60, Brindisi 75, Lecce 86, Taranto 88. Basilicata: Matera 81, Potenza 105. Calabria: Catanzaro 59, Vibo Valentia 61, Crotone 77, Reggio Calabria 95, Cosenza 96. Previous positions on the same page: Catania 23, Palermo 24, Siracusa 27, so Siracusa leads Sicily in 2025 only. Abruzzo and Molise, which ISTAT also files under « Sud » (C38), are left out of this video's South: Pescara 43, L'Aquila 76, Chieti 79, Teramo 65, Campobasso 74, Isernia 90; none is above Italy's rate. Lab24's page lists « Sud Sardegna » among its provinces but has no row for it: the police figures for Sardinia come in four provinces (the Cagliari row implies about 743,000 residents and the Sassari row about 470,600, our division of reports by rate). The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“The famous towns in this video sit in these provinces: Amalfi, Positano and Ravello in Salerno; Tropea in Vibo Valentia; Alghero in Sassari; Ostuni in Brindisi; Taormina in Messina; Maratea in Potenza; Cabras in Oristano. A province's figure covers all of its towns, not only the famous one. ISTAT files Campania, Puglia, Basilicata and Calabria under « Sud » and Sicily and Sardinia under « Isole ».”

ISTAT list of Italian municipalities, Elenco dei comuni italiani (csv, semicolon-separated, Latin-1), downloaded 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I. Rows (municipality, then the column « Denominazione dell'Unità territoriale sovracomunale (valida a fini statistici) »): Amalfi, Positano and Ravello: « Salerno »; Tropea: « Vibo Valentia »; Alghero: « Sassari »; Ostuni: « Brindisi »; Taormina: « Messina »; Maratea: « Potenza »; Cabras: « Oristano ». The column « Ripartizione geografica » reads « Sud » for the municipalities of Campania, Puglia, Basilicata and Calabria (and of Abruzzo and Molise) and « Isole » for those of Sicily and Sardinia. That a province's figure covers all its towns is our reading of the Lab24 measure (reports per 100,000 residents of the province, C16).

Last updated by the publisher: undated (retrieved 10/18/2026) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/18/2027

“Siracusa: 27th of 106 in 2025, just under Italy's overall rate. Its downside on the tables is scooters: moped theft runs at about three times Italy's rate (6th of 106). Car theft is about at Italy's level (15th); pickpocketing is under a fifth of Italy's rate and street robbery about two-fifths.”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026: « Classifica finale » Siracusa 27th, 3907.18 (14943 reports), previous position 27; « Furti di ciclomotori » 6th, 31.3766 (120 reports); « Furti di autovetture » 15th, 179.893 (688), previous position 13; « Furti con destrezza » 78th, 42.097; « Rapine in pubblica via » 65th, 9.93594. Ours against Italy (C16 method: the table's reports summed and divided by 58,942,824 residents): total ×0.98, mopeds ×3.02 (Italy 10.39), cars ×1.08 (Italy 167.33), pickpocketing ×0.19 (Italy 224.47), street robbery ×0.39 (Italy 25.80). Much of Siracusa's total sits in « Altri delitti » (other crimes, not itemized): 2nd of 106, 1194.67 (×1.47, ours); the tables do not say what that category holds, so it is not said aloud. The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“Siracusa's old town, Ortigia, is a small island of just over a square kilometer (under half a square mile), joined to the rest of the city by two bridges. A few steps apart stand the cathedral, the remains of the Greek temples of Apollo and Athena, and the Fountain of Arethusa, a pool of fresh water fed by a spring. Syracuse has been on UNESCO's World Heritage list since 2005; UNESCO says Ortygia has been inhabited for around 3,000 years and that the temple of Athena was re-used as a church and rebuilt as a Baroque cathedral in the late 17th century.”

italia.it « Ortigia »: « una piccola isola di poco più di un chilometro quadrato oggi collegata al resto della città da due ponti », « Fonte Aretusa , uno specchio d'acqua dolce legato a una delle tante sorgenti che caratterizzano quest'area », « Nei pochi metri da percorrere a piedi si possono ammirare il Duomo di Siracusa », « i resti del Tempio di Apollo , di quello dedicato ad Atena ». UNESCO World Heritage Centre, « Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica »: « Date of Inscription: 2005 », « Ortygia, the historic centre of the city, and today an island that has been inhabited for around 3000 years », « re-used as a church from 6th century C.E. and rebuilt as a Baroque cathedral, in the late 17th century ». (curl 10/18/2026; WebFetch gets HTTP 403 at whc.unesco.org. Under half a square mile is our conversion.)

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“Salerno province, which includes the Amalfi Coast: 56th of 106 in 2025, about a fifth under Italy's rate. Its downsides on the tables are car theft, the 10th-highest in Italy (about one and a half times Italy's rate), and forest fires reported to the police, 4th of 106. Pickpocketing is about a quarter of Italy's rate.”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026: « Classifica finale » Salerno 56th, 3131.39 (32983 reports), previous position 52; « Furti di autovetture » 10th, 242.001 (2549), previous position 10; « Incendi boschivi » 4th, 21.8361 (230); « Incendi » 8th, 29.1464 (307); « Furti con destrezza » 65th, 54.0206; « Furti in abitazione » 78th, 156.65. Ours against Italy (C16 method): total ×0.78, cars ×1.45, forest fires ×5.79 (Italy 3.771), fires ×2.66 (Italy 10.951), pickpocketing ×0.24, burglary ×0.65. Salerno is the 10th of the ten worst car-theft provinces in C19. The tables count the whole province (the city of Salerno, the Amalfi Coast and the rest, C38) and do not split it by town, nor say where the fires were. The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“The Amalfi Coast, in Salerno province, has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997: cliffs that drop into the sea, with vines, olives and citrus grown on terraces. UNESCO counts 15 municipalities. Atrani, 700 meters (under half a mile) from Amalfi, is the smallest municipality in Italy.”

UNESCO World Heritage Centre, « Costiera Amalfitana »: « Date of Inscription: 1997 », « Province of Salerno, Campania », « citrus groves and vineyards », « encompasses 15 municipalities ». italia.it « Costiera Amalfitana »: « Con le sue scogliere a strapiombo sull’acqua, minuscole baie e terrazzamenti coltivati a viti, ulivi e agrumi », « A soli 700 metri da Amalfi si trova Atrani , il comune più piccolo d’Italia ». (curl 10/18/2026; under half a mile is our conversion. The page does not say by what measure Atrani is the smallest; it is by area.)

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“Vibo Valentia province, home of Tropea: 61st of 106 in 2025, about a quarter under Italy's rate, with some of the least theft in Italy: pickpocketing 105th of 106 and home burglary 104th (about a fifth of Italy's rate).”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026: « Classifica finale » Vibo Valentia 61st, 3062.26 (4591 reports), previous position 55; « Furti con destrezza » 105th, 7.33715 (11 reports); « Furti in abitazione » 104th, 48.692 (73); « Furti » 97th, 526.274 (789); « Minacce » 1st, 230.787 (346). Ours against Italy (C16 method): total ×0.77, pickpocketing ×0.03, burglary ×0.20, thefts ×0.31, threats ×1.95 (Italy 118.56). Threats are the highest rate in Italy, but the tables do not say who threatened whom or why, so (as with Oristano's extortion, C24) this is not said aloud. Small numbers: 11 pickpocketings in a province of about 150,000 residents (our division of reports by rate). The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/18/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“Tropea, on Calabria's coast, is known above all for its beautiful beaches and its food: the Tropea onion is known worldwide for its sweetness. In the old town, small restaurants serve fish, often outdoors, and at night the sea reflects the town's lights. Aloud (TV fix of 10/18/2026): "Tropea is known above all for its beaches and for its sweet onion" (« unica per la sua dolcezza »; "around the world" dropped as brochure wording).”

italia.it « Tropea »: « cittadina nota soprattutto per le sue spiagge bellissime », « È nota in tutto il mondo, infatti la Cipolla di Tropea , unica per la sua dolcezza », « i ristorantini offrono imperdibili piatti a base di pesce, da gustare magari all’aperto », « il mare che, nel buio della notte, riflette le mille luci della città ». (curl 10/18/2026.) The page does not call the onion red, so the script says only: the Tropea onion.

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“Water is a practical issue in parts of the South. In 2024 ISTAT counted water rationing in every provincial capital of Sicily except Siracusa, in every one of Calabria's except Crotone, and in Potenza. In the city of Agrigento the supply to residents was suspended or reduced on every day of the year (suspended on 209 days, reduced on 157), in weekly rotations by zone; in the city of Vibo Valentia it was shut off every night all year; in the city of Messina about 71% of residents and in the city of Potenza about 78% were affected at some point. In 2025 Calabria had the highest share of households reporting an irregular water supply at home (37.3%), followed by Abruzzo and Sicily. In Sicily more than half of households (57.6%) do not trust their tap water enough to drink it (three in ten nationally).”

ISTAT, « Le statistiche sull’acqua » (Anni 2023-2025, published 03/20/2026 for World Water Day; source of the city data: ISTAT « Dati ambientali nelle città », year 2024): « Nel 2024, sono state adottate misure di razionamento in tutti capoluoghi della Sicilia, tranne Siracusa, in tutti quelli della Calabria, ad eccezione di Crotone, nonché a Fermo, Pescara, Chieti, Campobasso e Potenza. » « La situazione più critica è ad Agrigento, dove l’erogazione dell’acqua ai residenti è stata sospesa o ridotta in tutti i giorni dell’anno, con turnazioni settimanali, differenziate in base alla zona e serbatoio di distribuzione. » « Anche a Vibo Valentia la sospensione nella distribuzione dell’acqua avviene tutto l’anno durante le ore notturne » « ad Agrigento, dove la distribuzione dell’acqua è stata sospesa per 209 giorni e ridotta per 157 » « Situazioni mediamente critiche sono state rilevate a Potenza (il 78,2% della popolazione, per un totale di circa 50mila residenti interessati), Messina (71,1%, 154.614 residenti) » « la Calabria si conferma la regione più esposta ai problemi di erogazione dell’acqua nelle abitazioni (lamenta questo problema il 37,3% delle famiglie » « seguita da Abruzzo e Sicilia (rispettivamente con il 30,3% e il 29,5% delle famiglie) ». Also on the page: « tre famiglie su 10 non si fidano a bere l’acqua del rubinetto, ma sono oltre la metà in Sicilia (57,6%) e Sardegna (52,1%) ». Careful: the rationing figures are for the capital cities (comuni capoluogo), not whole provinces, so Tropea, Taormina and Maratea are not covered; the script names the city of Agrigento. The year is 2024 (209 + 157 = 366, a leap year; our sum). Local news of June to August 2026 (La Sicilia) reports Agrigento's rotations still running, but no primary 2026 figure was found, so the script gives the year 2024. (curl 10/18/2026, pdftotext.)

Last updated by the publisher: 03/20/2026 (2024 city data; 2025 household survey) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 03/31/2027

“No airport in Calabria had a flight to or from the U.S. in 2025 or in the first half of 2026, not even a charter, so from Tropea, flying home means changing planes.”

Our calculation

U.S. DOT International_Report_Passengers, our query of 10/18/2026 (every Italian airport, fg_wac 450; years 2025 and 2026, data through 06/2026): no rows at all for SUF (Lamezia Terme), REG (Reggio Calabria) or CRV (Crotone), Calabria's airports; rows exist for NAP, CTA, PMO, BRI, OLB and others (C25, C33, C35). That flying home from Tropea means changing planes is our reading of the absence.

Last updated by the publisher: 2025 data and 2026 data through 06/2026 · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 01/31/2027

“Sassari province, home of Alghero: 72nd of 106 in 2025, about a quarter under Italy's rate and the highest of Sardinia's four provinces. Its downside on the tables is theft from parked cars, at about Italy's rate (25th of 106), while pickpocketing is about a tenth of Italy's rate, car theft a quarter and home burglary two-fifths.”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026: « Classifica finale » Sassari 72nd, 2881.93 (13562 reports), previous position 65; « Furti su auto in sosta » 25th, 137.7 (648); « Furti con destrezza » 85th, 26.5625 (125); « Furti di autovetture » 64th, 41.8625 (197); « Furti in abitazione » 93rd, 95.4125 (449). Ours against Italy (C16 method): total ×0.72, thefts from parked cars ×0.94 (Italy 145.90), pickpocketing ×0.12, cars ×0.25, burglary ×0.40. Lab24's Sassari row implies about 470,600 residents (our division of reports by rate), the police province that also takes in Olbia and Gallura; Alghero is in it (C38). Sardinia's other rows: Nuoro 78th, Cagliari 80th, Oristano 106th (C37). The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/18/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“Alghero is called "little Barcelona" because of the strong influence of Catalan rule, a culture still present in its dialect and its food. Part of the seafront promenade runs along the old sea walls, with cafés and restaurants, and the town is known for working red coral.”

italia.it « Alghero »: « la chiamano “piccola Barcellona” per la forte influenza che qui ha esercitato la dominazione catalana, una cultura ancora presente nel dialetto e nella gastronomia », « Sui bastioni si sviluppa un tratto della passeggiata lungomare, perfetta per lo struscio e il relax, con caffè e ristoranti », « Alghero è anche rinomata per la lavorazione del corallo rosso ». (curl 10/18/2026.)

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“Brindisi province, home of Ostuni: 75th of 106 in 2025, a little under three-quarters of Italy's rate. Its downside on the tables is car theft: 9th of 106, nearly twice Italy's rate. Bag-snatching is about an eighth of Italy's rate and street robbery under a quarter.”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026: « Classifica finale » Brindisi 75th, 2834.08 (10589 reports), previous position 83; « Furti di autovetture » 9th, 298.958 (1117), previous position 9; « Furti con strappo » 96th, 2.94408 (11); « Rapine in pubblica via » 85th, 5.88816 (22); « Furti con destrezza » 77th, 42.2877. Ours against Italy (C16 method): total ×0.71, cars ×1.79, bag-snatching ×0.13, street robbery ×0.23, pickpocketing ×0.19. Brindisi is the 9th of the ten worst car-theft provinces in C19. The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“Ostuni is called the white city: its medieval old town is a maze of houses whitewashed with lime, winding lanes and little stairways, watched over by eight Aragonese towers (there were 15), with the coast less than 10 kilometers (about 6 miles) away. The stairways are the practical catch for anyone who finds steps hard.”

italia.it « Ostuni »: « È qui la città bianca », « Un tracciato labirintico, case imbiancate a calce su strade, vicoli tortuosi e scalette, otto torrioni aragonesi (erano 15 in origine) che dominano le strade tortuose del centro storico medievale », « A meno di 10 km, la costa ». (curl 10/18/2026.) About 6 miles is our conversion; the practical catch is our reading of « scalette ».

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“Messina province, home of Taormina: 92nd of 106 in 2025, about a third under Italy's rate, with home burglary 103rd of 106 (about a fifth of Italy's rate) and pickpocketing under a tenth.”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026: « Classifica finale » Messina 92nd, 2650.51 (15746 reports), previous position 92; « Furti in abitazione » 103rd, 51.5087 (306); « Furti con destrezza » 96th, 15.8229 (94); « Furti » 90th, 626.521; « Omicidi da incidente stradale » 11th, 3.19825 (19 reports). Ours against Italy (C16 method): total ×0.66, burglary ×0.21, pickpocketing ×0.07, thefts ×0.37, road homicides ×1.75 (Italy 1.831; 19 cases, too few and too unclear to say aloud). The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/18/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“Taormina sits on a natural terrace on Monte Tauro, 206 meters (about 680 feet) above the sea, and has the Greek Theater, the second-largest theater in Sicily. Piazza IX Aprile is a panoramic square full of outdoor bars where people stop for a granita with Mount Etna in the distance. The beach at Isola Bella lies below the town: by cable car, or on foot down a small path from the center. Aloud (TV fix of 10/18/2026), the square by what it is: "On a square that looks out over the bay, full of outdoor bars, you can order a granita with Mount Etna in the distance." (« un salotto panoramico affacciato sulla baia sottostante. Ricca di bar all'aperto »).”

italia.it « Taormina »: « La terrazza naturale situata sul monte Tauro, a 206 metri di altezza sul livello del mare », « Il borgo ospita il Teatro Greco, il secondo teatro più grande di tutta la regione. » italia.it, the Taormina guide page: « Piazza IX Aprile , un salotto panoramico affacciato sulla baia sottostante. Ricca di bar all’aperto, la piazza è il luogo perfetto in cui potete assaggiare una granita », « scorgere l’Etna in lontananza », « raggiungerlo con la funivia o a piedi dal centro città attraverso un piccolo sentiero ». (curl 10/18/2026; the guide page was last published 10/27/2025. About 680 feet is our conversion; that the beach lies below the town is our reading of the cable car and the path.)

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“Agrigento: 101st of 106 in 2025, about 40% under Italy's rate, with theft and pickpocketing among the lowest in Italy (102nd of 106 for both).”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026: « Classifica finale » Agrigento 101st, 2395.09 (9749 reports), previous position 97; « Furti » 102nd, 463.344 (1886); « Furti con destrezza » 102nd, 8.84432 (36); « Rapine in pubblica via » 92nd, 4.42216; « Minacce » 8th, 185.976. Ours against Italy (C16 method): total ×0.60, thefts ×0.28 (Italy 1,683.5), pickpocketing ×0.04, street robbery ×0.17, threats ×1.57 (not said aloud: the tables do not say what the threats were). The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/18/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“Agrigento's Valley of the Temples has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997: the Doric temples of a Greek colony founded in the 6th century BC, standing among olive, almond and carob trees. The Temple of Concordia, with its 34 columns, is one of the best-preserved Doric temples because it was turned into a Christian church toward the end of the 6th century AD.”

UNESCO World Heritage Centre, « Archaeological Area of Agrigento »: « Date of Inscription: 1997 », « Founded as a Greek colony in the 6th century BCE », « the magnificent Doric temples that dominate the ancient town ». italia.it « Valle dei Templi »: « tra ulivi, mandorli e carrubi », « con le sue 34 possenti colonne », « è l’opera tra le più perfette e meglio conservate dell’architettura dorica, grazie alla trasformazione in chiesa cristiana, verso la fine del VI secolo d.C. ». (curl 10/18/2026; WebFetch gets HTTP 403 at whc.unesco.org.)

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“Potenza province, home of Maratea: 105th of 106 in 2025, about half Italy's rate and the second-lowest in Italy after Oristano, as in the year before. Street robbery is 105th of 106 and theft 103rd. What stands out is fire: 5th of 106 for fires and 5th for forest fires reported to the police, so both of Basilicata's provinces are in Italy's top five for fires (Matera 1st, C22).”

Our calculation

Lab24 2026: « Classifica finale » Potenza 105th, 1968.14 (6643 reports), previous position 105; « Incendi » 5th, 37.6266 (127), previous position 4; « Incendi boschivi » 5th, 17.4801 (59); « Rapine in pubblica via » 105th, 1.77764 (6); « Furti » 103rd, 408.264 (1378); « Furti con destrezza » 103rd, 8.59191. Ours against Italy (C16 method): total ×0.49, fires ×3.44 (Italy 10.951), forest fires ×4.64 (Italy 3.771), street robbery ×0.07, thefts ×0.24, pickpocketing ×0.04. Top five for « Incendi »: Matera, Foggia, Cosenza, Crotone, Potenza; for « Incendi boschivi »: Cosenza, Crotone, Matera, Salerno, Potenza. The tables do not say where the fires were or what burned (C22). The figures sit in the page's data table (« datiTabella.righe », fields « posiz », « nome », « punti » = reports, « indice » = reports per 100,000 residents), which a script renders: a plain text fetch sees only the template, so the source check needs the browser. Our copy was downloaded on 10/18/2026 (curl) and parsed with python -I.

Last updated by the publisher: 10/12/2026 (2025 data) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/31/2027

“Maratea is the only town in Basilicata on the Tyrrhenian Sea, with 32 kilometers (about 20 miles) of wild coast (« bellezza selvaggia »); above it, Monte San Biagio is crowned by the famous statue of the Redeemer. The old town's lanes lead to Piazza Buraglia, the heart of the town, the place for a coffee or an aperitivo in the golden hours of sunset. Its black-sand beach, Cala Jannita, has won the Blue Flag several times. Aloud (TV fix of 10/18/2026, fewer unexplained Italian names): "a famous statue of the Redeemer on the mountain above it"; "At sunset, you can have a coffee or a drink in the square at the heart of the town, and its black-sand beach has won the Blue Flag award for beaches several times." (« premiata più volte con la prestigiosa Bandiera Blu »).”

italia.it « Maratea »: « unico borgo della Basilicata ad affacciarsi sul Mar Tirreno », « Sono 32 chilometri di bellezza selvaggia », « il Monte San Biagio dominato dalla famosa Statua del Redentore », « Piazza Buraglia, cuore del paese, il posto giusto per sorseggiare un ottimo caffè oppure regalarsi un aperitivo nelle ore dorate del tramonto », « Cala Jannita: sabbia nera e Bandiera Blu », « è stata premiata più volte con la prestigiosa Bandiera Blu ». (curl 10/18/2026; the page was last published 05/26/2026. About 20 miles is our conversion.)

Last updated by the publisher: 05/26/2026 (retrieved 10/18/2026) · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 10/18/2027

“Eastern Sicily's link to the U.S. is Catania: Delta flies nonstop to New York JFK in season (May through October in 2025; from April in 2026).”

Our calculation

U.S. DOT International_Report_Passengers, our query of 10/18/2026: 2025, CTA–JFK, carrier DL, scheduled 56,945 passengers in months 5-10, no scheduled CTA row in months 1-4 or 11-12; 2026 (data through 06/2026), CTA–JFK DL scheduled 27,395 in months 4-6. No other airport of eastern Sicily has a U.S. row in either year (our check; Comiso, CIY, has none). Where the 2026 season ends is not in the data and is not said.

Last updated by the publisher: 2025 data and 2026 data through 06/2026 · Checked: 10/20/2026 · Next check: 01/31/2027

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