{"id":55238,"date":"2024-02-03T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T09:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/?p=55238"},"modified":"2024-02-02T10:42:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T09:42:33","slug":"museum-boss-sparks-outrage-with-florence-prostitute-remark-on-mass-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2024\/02\/museum-boss-sparks-outrage-with-florence-prostitute-remark-on-mass-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum boss sparks outrage with Florence &#8216;prostitute&#8217; remark on mass tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Mass&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/italy-tourists-bad-behavior\/index.html\">tourism<\/a>&nbsp;has turned the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/us-couple-bought-400-year-old-italian-tower-handshake\/index.html\">Italian<\/a>&nbsp;city of Florence into a \u201cprostitute,\u201d the director of Galleria dell\u2019Accademia has said, sparking anger and calls for her to step down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Cecilie Hollberg has apologized, Italian politicians have slammed her comments this week as being offensive to Florentines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnce a city becomes a prostitute, it is difficult for it to become a virgin again,<a href=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/\">\u201d<\/a> Hollberg, a German art historian who has been head of the museum since 2015, told reporters Monday on the sidelines of a press conference laying out the museum\u2019s successes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/01\/30\/travel\/italy-florence-prostitute-tourism-intl-scli\/index.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass\u00a0tourism\u00a0has turned the\u00a0Italian\u00a0city of Florence into a \u201cprostitute,\u201d the director of Galleria dell\u2019Accademia has said, sparking anger and calls for her to step down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":55239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,535,3797],"tags":[2160,3939,1441],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Museum boss sparks outrage with Florence &#039;prostitute&#039; 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