King Charles and Queen Camilla are gearing up for the final day of their State Visit to Italy today, with the couple shortly heading to Ravenna in the north. Today's engagements will celebrate literary culture with the royal couple set to visit Dante's tomb, while the Queen will make a solo trip to the Byron museum.
Following a reception in Rome with representatives from the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance, the couple will head to the Piazza San Francesco in Ravenna, where they will tour the final resting place of the legendary Italian literary figure and attend a reading of his classic work, The Divine Comedy. Later Camilla, a keen reader and supporter of a number of literary charities, will tour the Byron museum and learn about the Romantic poet's life in Italy, and will also attend a reception for local book clubs, libraries, book shops and representatives from her Reading Room book club.
In Ravenna's town hall, the King and Queen will attend a reception marking the 80th anniversary of the province's liberation from Nazi occupation by Allied forces during the Second World War, which featured British and Canadian troops. The couple's tour of Italy will end when they visit Ravenna's market in the Piazza del Popolo and meet local producers and organisations.
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