Wine windows in Italy 

The World

History is full of examples of architecture changing in response to pandemics. But in Florence, Italy, a pandemic is forcing Italians to use old architecture in new ways. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum reports on the reemergence of “wine windows.”

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