Hubby and I have been in Italy 3 1/2 days, still getting over jet lag. Seeing our CDC cards has been requested 5 times, and always accepted.
Flew Denver>Dallas>Rome, on American Airlines. Used the VeriFLY app to record personal data, photo, vaccination details, and negative antigen test (Abbott Binax proctored test). The test was a breeze the day before we flew from Denver, 20 minutes apiece for us, but getting the results to load into VeriFLY was a frustratingly long process, requiring many attempts.
The Denver airport was also frustrating and disappointing, with many, many people not properly wearing the required masks, exposing mouth and/or nose. Several were just wearing chin diapers, and one guy - very early twenties - had no mask of any kind. No authorities were enforcing the mask rule.
Dallas/Ft. Worth airport had far, far better mask compliance. At the gate to get on the plane, they just wanted to see that we had a passport, but not to see inside it. They then took a facial recognition photo, which was recognized, and we were waved on. I suspect the time and effort it took to get the VeriFLY profile created paid off in a simple boarding.
Immigration control at the Rome airport was fast, just showed passports to the official in the glass kiosk, and continued out the door into Rome. Again, VeriFLY may have made the process easier - don’t know what the Italians already knew about upcoming arrivals.
Leonardo Express train into Termini Station in downtown Rome, bought tickets from the machine just before the exit of the airport building, with assistance from a staffer at the machine. No question about vaccination status then, or on that train.
At Termini, bought tickets to continue on to Bologna on the next Italo train, which was €30 per person cheaper than the Trenitalia leaving 5 minutes sooner. The ticket machine wouldn’t process our US Visa card, but an extremely nice woman in the nearby Italo booth did.
First CDC card request: The conductor who checked our ticket once the train was underway also asked to see our Green Passes. I showed him my CDC card, saying that we Americans had a “White Pass.” That worked, although he said he was astonished that the cards from the “most advanced country in the world” had such unofficial-looking vaccination passes - no stamp or anything, just hand-written shot details, and not an electronic version.
CDC card request 2: getting inside restaurant for Day 1 lunch.
Request 3 was on Day 2, to take the Walking Tour put on by the TI, but not to get into the TI itself. Most people on the tour kept masks on the whole time, and the tour was all outside except for a few minutes inside the enormous Basilica on the main square. A few didn’t wear masks, including the tour guide.
Request 4: getting inside restaurant for Night 2 dinner.
Request 5 was to get into one museum, Day 3. No requests have been made at supermarkets or other stores, in taxis, at the TI, or in any church. All churches do have a hand sanitizer dispenser just inside the entry door.
Making reservations on the phone tonight for dinner tomorrow, we were asked whether we will have vaccination certification.
Restaurant serving staff are all wearing masks - not always over both nose and mouth. People are pretty much all wearing masks indoors. Outside, it’s 5-10% with masks on faces. Many have masks slung under their chins, at the ready to be raised. More have a face mask slid over their upper arm, like an armband. Today (Saturday) was really crowded in many places, and masks outside were extremely few. So many streets in Bologna are lined with semi-enclosed porticoes, not wide-open sidewalks, and others are very narrow, so they can get pretty packed on busy days.
It depends where you are - most places seem to specify keeping a 1 meter distance from others, one (the museum day before yesterday) said 1.5 meters apart, and a couple places have posted staying 2 meters apart.