A wealthy Italian town spent 2024 cracking down on unapproved air conditioners while its mayor defended the rules as necessary to protect the view — and neighbors reporting neighbors became its own small scandal
Portofino is a village of fewer than 500 permanent residents on the Ligurian coast, roughly an hour southeast of Genoa. It is also, by most measures, one of the most recognisable places in Europe. A tight crescent of coral and ochre buildings around a harbour so precisely compose…