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Alan K | all galleries >> Italia (Italy) >> Lombardia e Milano (Lombardy and Milan), Aug 2016 and Sep 2019 >> 2016 Day 21: Milano, City of Milano (MI), Lombardia, Day 2 (Fri 09 Sep 2016) > 160909_073714_1790 Biancheria No More
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09-Sep-2016 AKMC

160909_073714_1790 Biancheria No More

Via Domenico Scarlatti, Milano, Lombardia, Italia

On the corner of Corner of Via Domenico Scarlatti and Via Benedetto Marcello, we find the Costanino Stellario biancheria. The what? "Biancheria" refers to "linen" in Italian. This could be household linen, or undergarments (biancheria intima), or lingerie (biancheria da donna).

From this image, with the shop still shuttered before working hours, you can't really tell. However looking at Street View from past years it does seem to have been a store for household linen.

I would look it up, but a Google search for the store name yielded only one result; that was an entry on Yelp, a singularly disgusting website that I would like to have seen die a well-deserved death by now; and even that had no relevant information about the store. Actually, "no relevant information" is what I regard every Yelp page as containing. If the store ever had a website, it looks like it is long gone and probably wasn't search optimised.

For, you see, this store is no more either. Google Street View first shows it in April 2008. It continued to be there until September of 2020. After that there was a gap of almost 2 years before the Google wagon drove past again in August 2022, by which time this store had become a dentist.

Maybe the owner got sick of dealing with the graffiti.

3 years later, when we were in Bologna, our walking tour guide said that she could not imagine Bologna without its graffiti. Maybe. But there is a difference between artistic graffiti, and talentless tags, and vandalising people's personal property which includes their stores. The pathetic, laughingly described "art" on display here is, in my view, nothing more than a gross sign of disrespect to the owners of this business.


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