Culture Minister Dario
Franceschini said Wednesday that the decision to cover up nude
statues at Rome's Capitoline Museums during a visit this week by
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was "incomprehensible". He
added, after accompanying Rouhani on a visit to the Colosseum,
that neither he nor Premier Matteo Renzi had been informed of
the decision to cover the statues. "I think other ways could
easily have been found to avoid going against the sensibilities
of such an important guest, without this incomprehensible
decision to cover the statues," Franceschini said.
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