The mayor of Florence has finally had it with groups of tourists snacking, eating meals, and making wrapper-driven messes all over the city’s Renaissance era architecture. His solution? Keep surfaces soaked so they’re too wet to plop down and take a snack-break on.
Dario Nardella decided earlier this week to keep church steps, monument bases, and any other place you might find yourself popping a squat continually hosed down, preventing tourists from lounging on the city’s historical architecture. As Telegraph reports, the hosing down will take place everyday at lunchtime, right when everyone begins to sit and take an outdoor lounging break.
With minimal benches available and the arrival of the summer season, tourists are going to have to find a new seating solution for their gelato-eating siestas; though with an abundance of outdoor cafés and wine bars, the answer doesn’t seem too far away…
