Rome bans snacks and food at tourist sites this summer

Rome is synonymous with mass tourism. Its an enviable trait but City Hall is making sure the lot of us won’t cause “irreparably damage the preservation of historical and art areas and monuments and the possibility to enjoy them.”. That’s according to them and due to that reason alone, we are now banned from munching away food and snacks around historical monuments which in Rome, is literally everywhere. Drunks, litterbugs, loiterers and beggars too are shoo-ed from tourist sites.

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