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May 25, 2016

Friends, Romans: Help protect Rome's ruins

  • The city is seeking sponsors to “adopt” and maintain fountains, statues, historic palazzos and temples.
  • ROME (AP) — Friends, Romans, countrymen! Oh yes, and countrywomen. And people in far-flung nations. Everyone, basically. Rome is seeking all the sponsors it can find to fund the monumental job of restoring and maintaining its hundreds of fountains, statues, archaeological sites and historic palazzos.

    Perennially short of funds to properly care for the sprawling, two-millennia legacy of art and history, city officials on Tuesday offered their thanks to corporate sponsors of ambitious restoration projects.


     
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