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Modenesi's Towers of Finale Emilia are destroyed following an earthquake on May 20, 2012 in Ferrara, Italy
Monday, May. 21, 2012

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  • FERNANDO FERIOLI,
  • Mayor of Finale Emilia, one of the northern Italian towns damaged by an earthquake in the Emilia-Romagna region, where a historic clock tower was split down the middle, half disintegrating into rubble, with the other half collapsing during the aftershock
Photo: Roberto Serra / Iguana Press / Getty Images | Source: The Guardian