Plan: Flashing Billboards In Venice’s St. Mark’s Square?

“St Mark’s Square in Venice is at risk of turning from drawing room into advertising showroom, as officials move closer to hanging giant electronic advertising screens from the piazza’s elegant palaces to pay for restoration work. If plans go ahead, the five screens, each measuring 250 square metres, will be suspended in front of drapes hung on scaffolding along the square’s facades to hide restoration work that could last more than six years.”