of bam going to her long with its outlying areas is long but is most important commercial center optima lach. our journey takes us to the historic center of bad amount which is perched on a hill called back i'm outta here to most of the businesses and stores are closed. on. the analyser deserted as they were in venice there are just a few people standing a safe distance away from one another waiting patiently outside the pharmacy. in the piazza vecchia the square at the heart of the old town we meet marcelo minardi who runs the cafe downtown so. the cafe dates back to 1476 and the any time that it has had to close for such a long periods was during war time but macho is an optimist he says now the main thing is to be there for one another and pull together. we will open the cafe as soon as everything is over here and the entire family will do their bit including him. in step by step will begin again. i hope very much that everyone will be buoyed by this optimism including the government and. they've really done everything possible and they're doing a pretty good job prime minister conte and