Snowball fights in St Peter’s Square and sledging in the Circus Maximus – Arctic front hits Italy and the Balkans
Priests threw snowballs in St Peter’s Square, children tobogganed down the sides of the ancient Roman Circus Maximus and schools were shut in the Balkans as an Arctic front dumped snow across much of southern Europe on Monday. The unusually cold weather, which originated in Siberia, disrupted public transport in Italy, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria,…