[MercyFlush]

There are, no doubt, real estate developers in Los Angeles who would love to do nothing less than to level Urbino and build strip malls and a basketball arena so they could make a bunch of money and run.

Just as they’ve done to so many American cities.

[Boogieman]

Well, I know from playing Paradox strategy games that Urbino was a vassal of the Papal State, so it’s tricky to conquer it without pissing off the Pope and then getting yourself excommunicated :)

[TalBlack]

They don’t “dot” the horizon, no, they STALK it.

You can always tell when someone has had a few creative writing courses.

[libertylover]

“The Italian city unchanged since the Renaissance”.
Well, I didn’t know that had TV antennas and satellite dishes back then.

[texas booster]

[Albion Wilde]

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