Italy receives tens of millions of foreign visitors every year.
This is what they may be seeing, if they visit the historic port city of Messina in Sicily:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8291187.stm
A - by account of their on-camera statement' anti-immigrant 'national guard' patrolling the streets, which is 'legal', and comprised of 'volunteers'. The creation of such street patrols was a measure passed through parliament in July, proposed by a far-right party which is a government partner, and it was heavily criticised at the time by the Vatican, the Opposition and Human Rights groups. The same party had even proposed segregated trains in Milan!
A chilling reminder of how fascism gained strength as a movement under a previous global financial crisis in the 1930s. And a wrong, far-right turn, at a key crossroad of the Mediterranean.
The irony, lost in history, being that Messina was created by foreign settlers back in the 8th c. BCE.
But if city authorities do not wish foreigners, why should they get any foreign tourists?
And let's better not start discussing whether a former TV stripper (remember who owns TV in Italy) is suitably qualified to become a Minister for Tourism, especially when she is caught on video giving the fascist salute.