Rome's new lighting. Are the ruins ruined?

I think the yellow lights are slowly disappearing. I was in Target the other day and the entire display wall of nightlights is LED. My apartment looks like the Cook County Lockup!

I think Rome would be cool LED! Think of the Coliseum as a close encounter! The figures on the fountains would have that alien look! I think it'd be hilarious if Rome went LED. I think we'll make it work, we'll have to to not go mad!

I miss the yellow glow too, we all do but that's because we remember it, pretty soon generations of people won't remember, how lucky we are to have lived life in that yellow glow!

That makes me so sad! I think it will definitely lose some charm. blah!

But it doesn't sound like the whiter LEDS will be used everywhere. As the article states:

"But he said that a warmer tone of light was being used in the city center, after consultation with the cultural authorities, which normally painstakingly monitor even the slightest changes to the country’s patrimony."

The monuments were beautifully lit before the yellow lights, they will be beautiful with white lights. I don't like artificial color, so I am fine with it.

Only with the passage of time can the hideous yellow of sodium street lights be seen as "nostalgic" and "warm", who would have thought. Gas light?, yeah, I get that one, but now we can add "Incandescent" and "Halogen" I suppose as well. For what it worth, LED technology is getting better and more options for controlling the color and diffusion of the light, so give it a chance.

And wouldn't it be great to see a sky full of stars over the Colosseum? I think it's two centuries too late for that, though.

think of the electricity bill. Those sodium ones suck it down, the LEDs just sip. I'll save the world over a yellow glow. Sorry.

Not all LED lights are the hash bluish white. Just installed new lights in my kitchen. All are LED, none are hash and actually they have a nice incandescent yellow-white tint.

I would hope Rome chooses similar lighting colors to be more like what everyone is used to.

And the Vatican has been using LED lighting both inside (for example the Sistine Chapel) and outside (the lighting on St. Peter's Dome for a number of years now. Given the staggering costs of electricity in Italy, it's got to be hard for the nearly bankrupt City of Rome to ask taxpayers to ignore the substantial savings LED lighting would accrue in the name of preserving a certain 'look'.

True. The cost savings will be very welcome.
As I understand it, utilities are already more expensive than in the U.S.