Dear Juliet (The cleaning)
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A couple of posts back, we wrote about the tradition of affixing love notes to a family house in Verona that’s believed to have inspired the Juliet side of Romeo and Juliet.
As Discovery News notes, earlier this year, all of the letters, gum and graffiti have been removed from the house, a cleaning task that takes place every two or three years, all with a very important holiday in mind:
…according to Vittorio Di Dio, Verona’s public works counselor, cleaning brushes and elbow grease are applied regularly every two to three years on the house’s medieval walls.
“Love notes are growing and growing everywhere,” Di Dio told Discovery News. “You get to the point when you really need a clean-up. The reason for the present cleaning is simple: We must be ready for the big day, Valentine’s Day.”
Check out “Love Notes Scrubbed From Juliet’s House” for all the details, including a great video.