Translated automatically by AI from the Italian original.
From love locks on Ponte Milvio to earphones left at the Imperial Fora: Rome faces the case of the “souvenir of degradation”, but the Municipality has stepped in to put a stop to this new social media trend.
After several viral videos showed the railings of via dei Fori Imperiali covered with hundreds of disposable earphones — the ones handed out to tour groups to listen to guides’ explanations — criticism erupted over the impact on the city’s appearance.
The Campidoglio did not delay its response: this morning it ordered and carried out an extraordinary clean-up to remove all the earphones hooked along the route from the Roman Forum to the Forum of Caesar, as far as Largo Argentina.
