Posted on 06/26/2023 6:22:04 AM PDT by aquila48
If you want to visit some of Italy’s stellar attractions – the Pantheon, St Peter’s Basilica, Florence’s Duomo – you’ll need to be dressed appropriately.
As religious sites, there are strict rules surrounding clothing and covering up.
While these regulations are long-standing, some communities in Italy have also recently introduced strict dress codes when walking around town.
Here’s everything you need to know about what to wear as a tourist in Italy.
What to wear to visit churches in Italy
Many of Italy’s top attractions are churches, cathedrals or religious complexes.
If you want to ensure you’re not turned away at the entrance, you must follow certain clothing rules.
Often, a sign outside indicates what you can and can’t wear. It is forbidden for both men and women to enter with uncovered shoulders, midriffs or knees.
That means no spaghetti straps, sleeveless tops, crop tops, shorts, or above-the-knee dresses.
Some attractions may offer shawls or cover-ups if you are dressed inappropriately, but others may turn you away at the door.
Earlier this month, an Australian traveler posted on TikTok about wearing an overly revealing outfit when in Rome.
The 26-year-old’s white dress was too short and too low cut, meaning she was barred from entering the Vatican, the Pantheon and the Museum of the Dead.
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I have a different recollection of the torn jean look. During the 70's I had numerous jeans rip at the knew due to wear and washings. I think it's today's impatient youth who buy pre-ripped jeans.
“remember my mom being pinched on the rear by italian men on a number of occasions.”
My cousin is a minister in Italy. Back in the ‘70s and ‘80s when his beautiful blonde sisters visited, it was a weeks-long event of pinches and wolf whistles.
A guy would try to run interference, but it didn’t always work out.
To rip your jeans naturally at the knee requires that you work. Less of the seventies and eighties kids actually worked. Thus, the market for pre-ripped jeans.
Good for you. If you are going to church to redd up the building or the grounds, then jeans and t-shirts are appropriate attire, IMHO.
From 'Kingsman: The Secret Service'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT0M2YxFQ50
GOOD.
That’s great. Sad it needed to get to that point, but humans are fallible. Praise God for His mercy and patience!
Wow, this makes me more interested in going to Italy.
And then there is the other end - Moslem countries.
Impressed! In the West, in dessert land no less!
Sounds like a great church!
well, to be fair, they were going on a family vacation to the Grand Canyon.
well, it’s about visiting places of worship.
When visiting a place of worship no bare knees, shoulder or mid-riff.
Otherwise itsa fine
Probably more common there, but that was 1960s male American behavior as well.
Good for the Italians!
A whole lot of presidential attributes died with that admin!
GOOD FOR THEM!
People around here wear pajamas and fuzzy bunny house shoes to town. If not that they dress like whores. Some of these louts never met a razor or a shower. They look filthy and they stink. They live the same way they look.
“If you are going to church to redd up the building or the grounds, then jeans and t-shirts are appropriate attire,”
Outdoors, of course. Although my father would not agree. We were forbidden to wear slacks or shorts EVER. We even had to take notes to school for gym class.
I wonder why I was bullied. Hmmm... class dork.
Oh My God- this is my #1 favorite of all of Michelle’s gaffes and thats a long list.
What the hell was she thinking? I guess we should be grateful she doesn’t travel in a bathing suit.
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