Posted on 02/25/2019 5:31:43 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The ancient square, the site where Julius Caesar was murdered, is to get a make-over courtesy of fashion house Bulgari, which plans to spend some €800,000 restoring the ruins to an accessible state.
Currently visitors can only admire the square from above. It is closed to all except a colony of stray cats and the human volunteers who operate a sanctuary for them in the south-west corner...
Off-limits and overgrown, its archaeological remains stacked into piles, the area needs considerable work to make it accessible to the public, including securing the ruins, installing walkways and building public bathrooms...
There have been other plans in recent years to reopen the square to the public, though none have yet come to fruition.
Nor is it the first time the private sector has stepped in to save Italy's crumbling heritage. Bulgari also funded a €1.5 million restoration of the capital's Spanish Steps, while fellow fashion house Fendi paid for a 16-month clean-up of the Trevi Fountain, and Gucci donated €2 million to spruce up the Boboli Gardens in Florence.
Ham company Parmacotto was responsible for restoring an ancient underground fresco in Naples, the founder of food chain Eataly paid for hi-tech repairs to Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, and insurance company Generali helped fund the work on Venice's Royal Gardens.
The Torre Argentina cat sanctuary assured that the restoration would not leave the square's feline residents homeless. The repairs will focus on the ruins of temples A, B and C, not temple D where the shelter is located, one of the volunteers wrote on its Facebook page.
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I’m out of my league
Truer words were never spoken.
It's quite a tail, don't you think?
Rubio?
Interesting!
How charming. Where did you find the image?
"I came, I saw, I curled up on the radiator.".
I did a google search for “roman cat” and there it was. After all, cats do a lot of roman.
And to this day, nothing at all has changed about Senators...
Groan. Good one.
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I am so sorry, SunkenCiv, I was responding to the above thread.
I don’t know how that happened and I apologize.
I hatte it when that happens, and lately, I've been doing it more, I like to blame my geriatric decline, y'know, when I realize that anything's wrong in the first place. :^)
LOL....
Theme park is a great idea. For 10 Euros you get to hunt a cat with a replica of an ancient Roman Pilum.
Cat hunt? Maybe.
I was thinking more along the lines of an Old West show, like where there’s a staged bank robbery and chase every few hours.
Here, it would be a re-enactment of the Ides of March, complete with “Et tu Brutus?” and the (fake) bloody knives and gown. “Last show was at 2 PM., next show at 6 PM. Souvenirs to the right.”
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