Milano Vice? Palm trees near Milan's cathedral spark debate
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February 17, 2017
MILAN (AP) — The appearance of an oasis of palm trees opposite Milan's gothic-era Duomo Cathedral has spawned a vibrant public debate.
Twitter is awash with palm-inspired memes, including pink palms in front of an aquamarine-colored Duomo subtitled, Milano Vice, referring to the 1980s television series. A well-known landscape architect wrote a page-one criticism in the daily La Repubblica dismissing the project as "neo-gothic folly" that veers "to the limits of kitsch."
The head of the anti-migrant Northern League was criticized after writing on Twitter that the scene was only missing "sand, c...
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