King Charles III and Queen Camilla were in Ravenna on Thursday on the last day of their State visit to Italy to visit the Tomb of Dante.
The British royals were welcomed by a cheerful crowd of local people and tourists in the city's Piazza San Francesco and shook hands with many of them.
They were greeted officials including Emilia-Romagna Governor Michele de Pascale and they listened to the Italian and British national anthems.
Recitals from Dante's Divine Comedy were performed for Charles and Camilla by a group of elementary school children and by Italian actress Ermanna Montanari before they entered the monument where the tomb lies.
When Charles became the first British monarch to address the Italian parliament on Wednesday, he gave part of his speech in Italian and joked that he hoped he was not "ruining the language of Dante so much that I am no longer invited to Italy".
In Ravenna Charles and Camilla also attended, with President Sergio Mattarella, a reception marking the 80th anniversary of the province's liberation from Nazi occupation by Allied Forces including British and Canadian troops.
Charles also visited the city's Byzantine splendours including the Basilica of San Vitale and the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia while Camilla visited the recently opened Byron Museum.
After the liberation commemoration the royals met farmers who suffered in recent floods and visited a Slow Food stand, one of Charles' interests.
Acting as "cicerone" (guide), as he called himself, was locally born and internationally famous chef Massimo Bottura, who has already had the opportunity to meet the royals.
"The Queen, together with her son Tom Parker Bowles, is the godmother of my refectory in London", he explained.
"It was she who asked to have me as a cicerone, so it's a great pride".
Cicerone is Italian for Cicero, the Roman philosopher who guides Dante through Hell in the Inferno.
Before driving away along with Mattarella in their respective cars, Charles and Camilla gave the acting mayor of the Romagna city, Fabio Sbaraglia, a period photograph, taken in Piazza del Popolo in Ravenna in 1945, in which some soldiers are portrayed.
The text accompanying the image mentions Harold Alexander, a British general and politician, Minister of Defense and Governor of Canada and, at the end of 1944, commander of the entire Allied army in the Mediterranean Sea.
The mayor reciprocated by giving the English royal couple a silk guide to Ravenna.
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