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<a href="http://romanculture.org/" rel="nofollow">http://romanculture.org/</a> <a href="http://www.villa-adriana.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.villa-adriana.net/</a> <a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/907" rel="nofollow">http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/907</a>
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.<p>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.
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....