Verona asks visitors to pledge love by SMS

Scribbled love notes cover the walls around the tiny marble balcony where the mythical Juliet is said to have pined for Romeo, but Verona wants amorous visitors to go digital in the interest of preservation.

Authorities in Verona, the northern Italian city that is home to literature's most famous star-crossed lovers, say thousands of notes are destroying the 13th Century house, reports ABCNews Online.

"It is time to clean the building, because people aren't just writing on the walls of entrance arch, they are sticking notes on the walls with gum," the Verona council's Francesca Tamellini said. "It has become really ugly."

Verona plans instead to ask visitors to use their mobile phones and send text messages to a giant screen.

emily | 5:34 PM | SMS Arts and Activism |
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