
The first Italian students return to class in Bolzano. Almost 8 million students were involved nationally.
The first bell rings in Bolzano, the first province in Italy to reopen schools for the school year which involves almost 8 million students across the country.
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The new school year begins in Italy, with Bolzano as the first province to open schools.
(by Valentina Roncati) The first bell rings this morning and it is Bolzano that opens the new school year, which concerns almost 8 million students throughout Italy. The residents of the autonomous province will be the first in Italy to return to class: over 85 thousand children and young people, of which 22,080 in Italian-language schools and 64,759 in German-language schools.
In the Ladin valleys, however, 2,895 young people will return to school.
The students of the autonomous province will be followed on 10 September by those of the Province of Trento, Valle d'Aosta and Veneto. On September 14th the return to class will be for Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Umbria, on September 15th for Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Sicily and Tuscany and on the 16th for Abruzzo, Basilicata, Sardinia. Puglia will close on September 17th.

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