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Trashy Travel: Forza Napoli!

Earlier this week we encouraged you to hop on Eurofly's cheap NYC-Naples flight for a last minute Amalfi Coast escape. You probably noticed that no where in that post did we say, "Hang around in garbage-filled Naples."

If you've been living in a dumpster you might not have heard, but the city is literally knee-deep in a ten thousand-ton garbage crisis that is stinking and cluttering up the once electrifying Southern Italian city.

In a bold move yesterday, newly elected Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi rode down to Naples on his white horse, vowing at his first official cabinet meeting to clean up the mess and give the city's tourism industry a fighting chance. How? His plan is to open five new dumps, guard them with the military and send anyone who tries to infringe on the operation to jail for a couple years.

To make sure Berlusconi didn't get his shoes dirty on Wednesday, some trash was scooped up before he came to town. Time reminds us that Berlusconi once gave similar quality-of-life orders to Genoa residents who were forced to pull in their hanging laundry before a G8 summit. And we remember how well that turned out...

Related Stories:
· Berlusconi in Naples: Clean-Up Job [Time]
· The Amalfi Coast: A Last Minute Possibility [Jaunted]

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