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Lately we see many people who while visiting some of the most beautiful historical and artistic cities are witnesses of vandalism and disfigurement of our cultural heritage, There are those who climb to the top of famous monuments and then smear them, who leaves his signature on authentic jewels such as the Colosseum or the Tower of Pisa… and all get caught up and then post on social media their stunts.

Mass tourism while on the one hand it makes known beautiful historical places, it allows you to discover landscapes and truly untouched territories on the other it also attracts people who are more interested in art than selfies, likes on social and to get them are willing to everything, also to damage monuments that have made the history of a city and the population that inhabits it.

Ruin the Colosseum or smear the buildings that have witnessed some of the most important pages of history of our territory, and all for a like, for a comment on social media, it means ignoring art, ignore culture and have no respect and gratitude for all those who, very often at the sacrifice of life, have made us what we are. If we are free, if we can demonstrate when we do not agree on anything we owe it to all those people who in the past have fought and suffered and are represented by those same monuments that today are scarred.

Using art as a background for artistic photos can be beautiful and also fun but folding our artistic heritage just as an excuse for selfie and like to post obsessively even at the cost of causing serious damage is the worst thing you can do. I sincerely think that the restrictions against mass tourism that some municipalities have put in place are legitimate if they serve to preserve the art and landscapes so beautiful for future generations. likes on social media.

We all go to visit artistic and picturesque places but with a beautiful head planted on the ground, because the likes on social media have a short life but the monuments, the art, are always there in perennial memory of our past and our traditions.