From Calenda's Turkey to Meloni's Puglia: politicians' summer holidays

Carlo Calenda in the past few days had posted a photo on a cot holding the book Istanbul by the Turkish Nobel Prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk to announce a tour of Turkey with his family, including a stop in Cappadocia (the same destination and day of departure as the group leader of Action Matteo Richetti). His is one of the few (declared) cases of cross-border destinations among Italian politicians whose favourite destination for the summer break seems to be the Belpaese. Led by the Puglia.

Starting with the premier, Giorgia Meloni , expected in Salento from Monday (and for about ten days). Her daughter Ginevra and ex-partner Andrea Giambruno are waiting for her in Valle d'Itria. In addition to her sister Arianna and Francesco Lollobrigida, Minister of Agriculture and brother-in-law of the premier. Undersecretary Marcello Gemmato is also at the farm. Minister Anna Maria Bernini's holidays in Salento. As an Apulian, Raffaele Fitto also chooses Puglia, but far from the premier. While just a few kilometres away from Meloni's resort, there is Bruno Vespa's Li Reni estate, which only a few weeks ago hosted political debates and which in August - but on a private basis - will record the presence of the deputy premier, Matteo Salvini and his partner Francesca Verdini (with whom he will also spend a few days in the mountains after mid-August).

The Dolomites once again earned the preference of the Head of State, Sergio Mattarella, who arrived on Sunday at 12.30 p.m. in Dobbiaco (Bolzano) to spend a holiday.

Cortina d'Ampezzo is confirmed as an obligatory stopover for Daniela Santanchè (but establishing her summer headquarters in Versilia, in Pietrasanta) and her government colleague Elisabetta Casellati. A compromise choice - sea and mountains (Dolomites) - for minister Paolo Zangrillo, his wife and three children. Maurizio Lupi, leader of Noi Moderati, will postpone his rest period until after the Rimini Meeting. Destination Alpiaz-Montecampione, in Val Camonica.

Neither the sea (or at most the bare minimum at Santa Marinella, on the northern coast of Lazio) nor the mountains for the deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Antonio Tajani. The Azzurro leader - by tradition and net of international emergencies - will be with his family in the Fiuggi countryside, less than an hour's drive from Rome. And the countryside is also the choice of the minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin who will return to the cool of the Biella surroundings. Between Liguria (in Zoagli, pearl of the Tigullio Gulf) and Sicily, the resting period of the president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa. Puglia again, but this time on the spur of the Gargano, for Lorenzo Fontana. The president of the Chamber of Deputies will end his rest period in his native Verona.