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  • Rome's ancient Largo di Torre Argentina to open to the public

    02/25/2019 5:31:43 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 35 replies
    The Local ^ | February 20, 2019 | editors
    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...