The Florence skyline may soon change for the better, but this also depends on what you ask.
Administrators and local officials have recently designed and approved a new municipal energy plan which would allow florentine citizens to install solar and photovoltaic panels on the roofs of buildings in the city centre.
The installation of alternative energy paneling will be obligatory on new buildings and those under renovation.
Although the dispute is in its beginnings, the prospect of going greener seems more and more improbable, because the coucil for historical and environmental preservation opposes this move.
With them there is also the architect and civil servant Vincenzo Vaccaro claiming that it would ruin the historic landscape of the historical center and they couldn't change the face of a city that attracts millions of tourists.
Moreover they argue that the addition of solar panels with the already many things that infest the roofs of the historic center (TV and parabolic antennae, air conditioning systems and signal reppeaters) detracts visually and aesthetically the Florentine monuments, like the Duomo.
by Andrea Vagnoli and Mauro Paradisi
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