Cool. This is important. How can anyone in his right mind think about putting a 400-acre garbage dump right next to a World Heritage Site. Hadrian's Villa is one of the greatest archaeological treasures in the world!
I read the petition. There are many important scholars from all over the world who've signed it. Italy would have to be crazy to ignore such influential folks....
One only has to walk down Via dei Fori Imperiali in Rome (a 6 lane boulevard right through Ancient Rome) to understand to what extent Italian Governments (in that case, Mussolini) are willing to pave over their rich heritage in the name of progress.
It's a little understandable even, given that any big construction project in Rome is held up by years every time a ruin is uncovered, so that archeologists can study it.
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 25.2 ms ] threadIt's a little understandable even, given that any big construction project in Rome is held up by years every time a ruin is uncovered, so that archeologists can study it.