Britain’s Prince Charles is to the Italian town devastated by an
earthquake in 2016 in which 299 people were killed.
A magnitude-six earthquake flattened the central Italian
town of Amatrice at the end of August, with aftershocks rocking the region for
months afterwards.
The heir to the British throne will see firsthand the rubble
that still remains in the hillside town, where the bell tower of its
14th-century church crumbled to the ground during tremors in January.
He will be accompanied by Amatrice mayor Sergio Pirozzi as he
lays a wreath at a memorial to the victims and visits a former school that now
houses reconstruction workers.
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla are on a six-day tour of
Italy that has already taken them through Naples and to a British military
cemetery near Vicenza.
The couple arrived in Florence on Friday.
While Prince Charles is in Amatrice, Camilla will
meet with victims of human trafficking and domestic violence at a non-profit
organisation in Florence.
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