VENICE — The friars of San Francesco del Deserto in Venice kept their island closed to visitors for the morning when Italy marked October 4 as a national holiday again this year, one of the first times since 1977, and the area was not accessible to the general public. The date in fact marked the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi.
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