Thread: Senior Citizen Discounts in Italy for Americans

Thank you for writing back.....We are looking forward to our trip to bella Italia, our favorite country on earth. I wish we were rich so we wouldn't have to worry about getting discounts! :) Buona Fortuna!

Lynn, Seems that those discounts apply for people of all nationalities - I thought for a moment you might have suffered the double insult of being rated as both over 65 AND British! How was it? Peter

oh and pompous whines about 'how we pay taxes in the EU to support these museums' is also bogus -- we pay taxes in the US to support our museums as well -- they still give senior discounts to all seniors from the EU when they visit

>>so the argument that it is about reciprocity is entirely bogus<< Not at all. The point is that Italy wants reciprocal agreements with national governments. But the US government cannot enter into such an agreement with Italy unless it has the formal consent of all 51 of the State governments.

Vivalamore, my comment was not intended to insult and hope it didn't. Just seemed od that you don't already have dual nationality that's all. If you have an Italian passport then you get the discount if you are Italo Americano then you don't. You know that here in Italy we need to have a document to get anything !!! regarding the Milanesi they probably only know about Sant? Ambrogio !!! lol

"I don't think you understand how deeply the Italian Americans here in the US are bound to the culture impressed upon them by their Italian roots. We are Americans, yes, but we are also very much connected to the Italian culture we learned from birth from our Italian parents. " Yes, we do feel this way. I am half Italian-derived. Our Parents and Grandparents were so attached they kept their version of Italy alive in the...

I recalled this thread yesterday visiting the Maritime Museum in Barcelona . Discounts apply if you are 65+. We don't quite make that age group yet, so queried the half price tickets. We must have looked old and feeble because he just waved us through. I'm not sure whether to feel lucky or insulted.

"I am an Australian,do I have a special case for 'senior' discounts? LOL.!" Actually, being from Perth WA you do!

Great detective work!

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