People tend to post mostly beautiful, romantic or picturesque photos of the city and countryside. To counterbalance thereby correcting this idealised image, you will find below a gallery of interesting or sometimes ugly situations that usually won’t get depicted.

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Roma, via Galba, sidewalk trap

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seems to be more profound than it looked like...

Italian drivers civic sense: why queueing if you can drive on the shoulder?

Rather than putting a sign, what about repairing the instrument (it wasn’t just about indemnity, was actually broken). On a motorway service area

Drinking water fountain in Rome Garbatella

Rome, Campidoglio, oneway street, but only for weddings

wasting water in Rome, rione Monti.

Italian pedestrian zone

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Porta Pinciana, Rome, another view on the missing railing

Missing railing at Porta Pinciana, Rome, kids risking falling 5m down on the underpass road

Roma Testaccio, is this spiderman's home? TV antenna cables MUST run along the front facade in Italy and every apartment must have a different one, it is an unwritten law in Italy

Tor Sapienza, Roma, missing footway

Roma Piazza della Montagnola, guidance system for the blind with a strange ending

guidance system for the blind

bicycle sign at Roma Metro San Paolo

Emergency exit Campidoglio, improvised "fix" with wire

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#italianparking in front of government building @garbatella Rome

Sidewalk interruption for trash cans @Procida, NA

Someone thought it would be acceptable to set up a metal wall with a barbed wired crown atop to hide the inside of his property in the Regional Park of the Appia Antica. How can the Superintendent for Roman archeology be OK with this uglification?

handling of trash containers without care

Italian style electrical installations - Rome Testaccio (Mattatoio)

insisting on private property rights - even if it creates an incredibly ugly situation - Rome Testaccio

nice shade on footway from private green

every day and night this street is blocked by parking cars (for big vehicles like fire fighters) and nobody cares or acts. #italianparking

Outside the Rome center benches are often rare - but here someone did decide to put the only 2 in the street - far from any bus stop - right besides the trash - inviting 😉

park is private property. the city in the city. cctv. e.u.r. roma.

Antiterror waste disposal

This sign is quite old but probably still valid, at least nobody bothered to remove it.

what's written on this sign?

blocked emergency exit

Roman pothole

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