Construction crews worked through the night to build a tent complex to host an Italian state funeral in earthquake-devastated Amatrice after the public rejected the government's original plan to hold the service in a distant airport hangar.
The funeral, due to be held late on Tuesday for more than 200 of the 292 victims, will now take place on the edge of Amatrice's obliterated medieval centre on the grounds of a Catholic retreat for the elderly.
Italy also observed a second day of national mourning following the August 24 earthquake that flattened villages in central Italy.
