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"facebook dialogPinterest\n\nBulgari announced on Friday that sales of some of its jewels are going to help finance the restoration of the Spanish Steps in Rome, making it the third Italian luxury brand in recent memory to go on maintenance duty of the city's landmarks .\n\nJust last year, Fendi embarked on a project called Fendi for Fountains, which is helping to clean up and preserve the Trevi Fountain and four others in the Eternal City. And in 2011, Tods signed up for the colossal task of renovating the Colosseum.\n\nItaly and all of its ancient (read: crumbling) statues and buildings really do need the support\u2014the nation has more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any other country in the world. Below, a few of our ideas for which brands might step up to the historic-preservation plate next.\n\nVersace: Michelangelo's David\n\nfacebook dialogPinterest0-david.jpg\n\n What better monument could Donatella get behind than a marble version of the nearly naked models she sends down the runway season after season?\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\nRoberto Cavalli: The Grand Canal\n\nfacebook dialogPinterest0-venice.jpg\n\nIt's no secret that this man loves a yacht, and loves a party on a yacht even more. His seafaring ways make him the ideal philanthropist to help keep Venice from sinking.\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\nGiorgio Armani: The Leaning Tower of Pisa\n\nfacebook dialogPinterest0-pisa.jpg\u00A9 Corbis.  All Rights Reserved.\n\nArmani's tailoring has long been defined by long, clean lines\u2014and what longer, cleaner line (in the world of Italian monuments, anyway) is there than this famously tilted tower?\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\nValentino: Pompeii\n\nfacebook dialogPinterest0-pompeii.jpg\n\nValentino is easily one of Italy's oldest fashion houses, so it makes sense for the brand to help oversee one of Italy's oldest heritage sites.\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022\n\nfacebook dialogPinterest0-sicily.jpg\n\nDolce &amp;amp; Gabbana The Valle dei Templi\n\nIf using prints of this Sicilian temple in recent collections wasn't proof enough, the sheer number of Sicilian models that walk Dolce's runways and appear in its ad campaigns, plus the fact that the company has a fragrance called Sicily, is plenty of reason for the brand to sponsor the upkeep of one of the city's most ancient landmarks (and the home of seven crumbling Doric temples).\n\n\u2014Details associate online style editor Justin Fenner.\n\n\u2022 \u2022 \u2022"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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