Video – Abandoned Italian towers imploded…

Blast brings end to towers left empty for 20 years.

Around 100 pounds of explosives brought an end to a pair of nine-storey high former office blocks in the Pieve Emanuele district of Milan yesterday.

The two blocks had lain empty and abandoned for some 20 years. Their demolition – carried out by contractor General Smontaggi – is part of a 170 million regeneration programme for the area.

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