Parking Lot In Italy: Make Love Not Litter

ROME April 2, 2003; Reuters reported that the Tuscan town of Vinci, best known for its Renaissance artist son Leonardo, is renovating a parking lot to become the nation's first Love Car Park, complete with soft lighting and receptacles for condoms.

"We're just recognizing that young people love each other," said Mayor Giancarlo Faenzi.

"If you don't face that fact, you're simply closing your eyes to reality and you just end up sending them . . . down the road," he said Monday, adding that the town was still deciding whether to install a condom machine.