Incivility in all its splendor.
An Irish tourist was surprised by the security of the Colosseum in Rome carving his initials with a sharp object on one of the pillars of the famous Flavian amphitheater.
The 32-year-old man is being prosecuted for aggravated degradation of cultural heritage.
A too common practice which threatens the heritage of the Eternal City.
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The object of a restoration financed by the patron Diego Della Valle, patron of Tod's, started in 2013, the Colosseum regained its former splendor in 2016. Between inscriptions to leave a trace of its passage, tearing of fragments to take them away as Remember, the Colosseum, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is unfortunately the scene of many acts of vandalism.
Not to mention the untimely drone flights inside the monument.
Graphic pollution
This type of incivility, associated with the lack of means and poor administrative and financial management, constitute, in fact, a threat taken seriously by the Italian authorities to the survival of many historic sites in Italy, of which more than fifty are classified as World Heritage by Unesco.
The Italian capital is not the only city in Italy to have to deal with these acts of vandalism.
In the historic center of Naples, also inscribed on the World Heritage List, nine out of ten monuments are said to be damaged by graffiti.
Pompei, Juliet's house in Verona ... too often bears the brunt of this graphic pollution.
