Germany's president Frank-Walter Steinmeier was on Friday set to meet Italian workers who emigrated to Germany in recent decades and to lunch with Italy's head of state Sergio Mattarella.
Steinmeier, who is well known for his environmentalism, too the train to Naples from Rome, where on Thursday he spent the first of his two-day state visit to Italy and had talks with Italy's premier Giuseppe Conte, Mattarella and foreign minister Luigi Di Maio.
Steinmeier was due to meet the Italian 'gastarbeiter' at the Naples' Goethe Institut before lunching with Mattarella at Villa Rosebery, the Italian president's official residence in Naples in the upscale Posillipo district.
He will later on Friday enjoy a tour of the historic centre of Naples, accompanied by its mayor, Luigi de Magistris, that will include to the 16th-century Cappella Sansevero and the Medieval Santa Chiara Basilica, which dates to the Middle Ages.
On Thursday, after a meeting with Mattarella at the Quirinale Palace in Rome, Steinmeier hailed the "very special" relationship between Italy and Germany. For his part, Mattarella said their two countries were "fully attuned" and had ties "at the highest level of excellence".
