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Italy: The Towers of Bologna

October 22, 2010

In the heart of Bologna stand two medieval towers. Dante wrote about them in the Divine Comedy.

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There are plans to start a new bus route that would go right past them, but the heavy traffic would likely prove extremely dangerous to their stability: They could collapse. Citizens' initiatives are calling for traffic to be rerouted away from the towers.