You know you're in a city that takes fashion seriously when its roads are designed to help high-heeled women walk safely and avoid damaging their precious Italian shoes.
The mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, announced that some of the city's major pedestrian thoroughfares would be re-cobbled to make walking that bit safer, 'especially for women in heels,' according to Italy magazine.
With the headquarters of high-end design houses Bulgari, Fendi and Laura Biagiotti, in the city, the fashion capital is a home to many a well-heeled woman.
La via wobbly: Rome's streets are renowned to be hard to negotiate in high heels.They are now being resurfaced to account for women in heels
It is also the site of many an uneven, hard-to-negotiate pavement and walkway, replete with cobbles notorious for catching heels - and the city's warren of old streets, while uber stylish, is a precarious zone for even the most experienced high-heel tottering woman to take on.
Racked.com reports that the world-famous Via del Corso was in the mayor's sights to be resurfaced and made fashion-friendly.
Saving not only ladies' ankles, but the expensive Italian designer heels themselves, the news, announced earlier this year, is sure to have been music to the ears of locals and tourists alike.
Other streets to be smoothed out include Via del Teatro Marcello, Via Petroselli, and Piazza Bocca della Verità .
According to Italy magazine, the work to realign the new cobbles, setting them in a bed of concrete to ensure no heel-catching lumps and bumps ensue, was to begin by the end of this year.
The initiative is one that may well do well in New York - the nightlife hub of the Meatpacking District is famous for its wide cobbled streets, particularly hazardous when combined with the area's bars.
Further south, SoHo and trendy Tribeca, not to mention Brooklyn's Dumbo neighbourhood, are all cobbled. Leighton Meester suffered a heel malfunction last year when filming Gossip girl in the riverside district.
She'd surely approve of Signor Alemanno's sympathetic plans.
Other streets to be smoothed out include Via del Teatro Marcello, Via Petroselli, and Piazza Bocca della Verità .
Oops! Leighton Meester catches her heel on cobbles while filming in New York - Rome's streets are to be re-cobbled for the safety of women in high heels
The initiative is one that may well do well in New York - the nightlife hub of the Meatpacking District is famous for its wide cobbled streets, particularly hazardous when combined with the area's bars.
Further south, SoHo and trendy Tribeca, not to mention Brooklyn's Dumbo neighbourhood, are all cobbled. Leighton Meester suffered a heel malfunction last year when filming Gossip girl in the riverside district.
She'd surely approve of Signor Alemanno's sympathetic plans.
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