Cafes and churches open in Italy and Greece; Spain eyes summer reboot

People visit the Areios Pagos hill with the Acropolis' Propylaea seen in the background, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Athens, Greece, April 28, 2020. Picture taken April 28, 2020. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

ROME/MADRID (Reuters) - Italian shops, restaurants and churches reopened their doors to spring sunshine on Monday, Greece welcomed visitors back to the Acropolis - and Spain hoped for tourists to return in summer in cautious steps to ease coronavirus lockdowns.

Italians could once again sip their morning cappuccino at the bar, albeit at a distance from one another, in what Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte admitted at the weekend was a "calculated risk" in rolling back the curbs.