A controlled implosion has removed an unfinished hotel eyesore from the Palermo coastline.
One of Italy’s most notorious eyesores, a huge unfinished hotel complex on a Ligurian island, disappeared Friday after decades of campaigning by environmentalists.
Some 50 kg of explosives was used to bring down the seven-floor building, known as the Scheletrone (‘big skeleton’), overlooking a beach on the island of Palmaria, which forms part of the region’s Cinque Terre UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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