The Red Dot Day in Rome did not discourage tourists, who lined up from the early hours to enter the Vatican Museums, one of the obligatory stops on the tour de force for those visiting the Eternal City.
The survival strategies are the most common and varied: take turns in line, take shelter in the shady wedges, ventilate as much as possible and, above all, plenty of water.
And the worst is still to come, according to meteorologists’ forecasts: The current heat wave is expected to last at least a weekwith temperatures that could reach 40 degrees Celsius from Sunday.