"Ron Hunter" > wrote in message
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> Diabolik wrote:
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> > "Paolo Pizzi" > wrote in message
> > news > >
> >>Dave Smith wrote:
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> >>
> >>>Italy is the only country there that I have visited
> >>>that I would not bother to return to.
> >>
> >>Italy holds 80% of the artistic treasures produced
> >>by the western civilization. Obviously you are
> >>not interested in that. Easy to explain why you
> >>prefer fast food to fine Italian dining.
> >>
> >>The opinion of a cultural troglodyte hardly matters.
> >
> >
> > I was visting Venice one day when I heard an American tourist say:
> >
> > "Why don't they knock that building down? It's too old."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Yep. We are pretty much of a mind about the ancient. Get it out of the
> way, get on with life. Out with the old, in with the new. On the other
> hand, we also value things historic, like the 'House of Seven Gables'
> and many people in the northeast live in houses built in the 17th
> century. So which is better? You obviously believe the old is better
> than the new. Fine. Keep it.

Yeah, the Italian Government should knock down the Colosseum in Rome, or the
Duomo in Milan, or Pontevecchio in Florence, etc. These buildings are too
old