Re: In Italy, you should not take photos of railroads and stations...
You'd be surprised how many laws made in the fascism years (and even before) "Regi Decreti" (King's Laws, or something alike), are still valid in 2016, despite Italy becoming a republic seventy years ago.
As long as they are useful for some lobbies, they were kept. There's also the one that makes mandatory a separate registration of cars (the "Public Record of Automobiles"), which is just a double of the state motor vehicle registration, but feeds a lot of employees of ACI ("Automobile Club Italia"), a private company, but which gets taxpayers money...
But the best one is this: the Italian criminal code is still mostly the "Codice Rocco", written in 1930 under the fascism, and just modified after the war to clean it from the most illiberal parts. That's because the previous one was literally too old (1889) to reinstate, but no new one was ever developed in the past seventy years... and it kept until the 1980 some truly ugly articles regarding, for example, crimes against women.
Welcome to the "cradle of Law", as Italy likes to think about itself... because there has been Romans two thousand years ago...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
