A meeting to discuss "identity and new scenarios for Portegrandi. But now let's see how the fourth largest population of 6 years from the approval of the recovery plan of the Basin, which was to revive it ...
Painted in these banks are human people
the magnificent and progressive.
(Giacomo Leopardi)
the magnificent and progressive.
(Giacomo Leopardi)
Friday evening (November 19th) at 20:45 at the Civic Center Portegrandi will hold a public meeting entitled "Portegrandi: Identity and new scenarios ". Guest Professor of the evening. Ivano Sartor, former mayor of Roncade, currently director of the Archives of Contemporary Cassamarca Foundation, and author of several books on the history of the Venetian and Marca, including two fine books on our region: medieval and modern Altino and Gates Department of Sile . For there will be interviewing Silvia Conte, an expert on the tourism economy.
The evening is organized by 'cultural association Gate Parks : association I've heard for the first time on this occasion, although he is based in Quarto d'Altino. The address and telephone numbers in the letterhead refer to those of the company's headquarters in Marina Portegrandi - Vivaldi Srl, which owns the area of \u200b\u200bthe new dock and a large portion of the "Conca", and in 2004 the promoter PIRUEA targeted to deliver in the name and on behalf of all owners of the affected areas [...] the urban renewal of the Basin of Portegrandi.
be honest: that the promoters of the project "Marine Portegrandi" will return today to propose talk about "new scenario" (and even more "identity") for Portegrandi, seen as the recovery plan is progressing of the "Conca" in almost three years of existence, it seems to me bizarre.
To understand what I'm talking about, just visit the site of the Marina Portegrandi, starting from PIRUEA on the page, where you can view and download an interesting layout of the area with the final draft
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by comparing the current situation ...
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of the operations covered by the project (dock, residence, club house, shopping centers, facilities Sports, recovery of the island "Conca") were produced only the dock, the residence and recovered a pair of residential buildings near the closed .
No hotel, no "mall", no "club house" (multi-purpose center with offices, fitness center, showroom, restaurant-pizzeria marina views, swimming pool, lounge bar with outdoor terrace), no sports facilities , not one of 'at least 250 new housing units that will give life to three other villages in addition to the historical village on the island. "
But the legacy that for now the project has left on the village of Portegrandi I think extends far beyond the borders of the "Conca" . Just do a tour in the area and overlap with an ideal scenario this photograph taken ten - or even less - years ago.
It is as if this time something has drained the lifeblood of population, especially in terms of small businesses, which - you know - are the basis of sociability and sense of community in particularly in small towns.
Take the Conca: until a few years ago there was still a restaurant and "el casoin" (the "casoin" from which the whole history of the beautiful novel Mala Air - Veneto famine Antonella Benvenuti), and this meant life. Then, the building that housed the two secular activities was included in the recovery plan e. .. Go and see how taken: abandoned after a first draft of restoration, while the church of the late '600 'which consists of 6 apartments of 70 sqm ground floor and first floor with terraces overlooking the marina and gardens relevance of which overlook the marina berth with direct access to "increasingly falls to pieces (although the site of the Navy, talk like a done deal" were obtained ...»). Once through the locks then, the only certainty that with you during the walk to the bank of the Sile is that it is cutting "denied access" , obsessively repeated with signs of all sizes, something that until at least 10 years ago did not happen, so much so that every altinate doc has been able to penetrate the atmosphere of the island of Marzi, reaching as far north embankment overlooking the lagoon.
other side Triestina the situation is not the best: the only venue left is the bar-pizzeria and B & B "Al vecio mold, and the only businesses that resist (if we exclude the bank and mail, that given the ridiculous rents they pay to the municipality have no reason to leave: in 2009 the bank paid € 10,890 a year, the post office - has long been privatized and become in turn a bank ... - € 3098.76 per year) is a pharmacy and a hairdresser, after in the last five years have ended the food, the butcher, the hardware, the haberdasher and the inn . A
Carafa (just beyond the overpass Triestina) things go a bit 'better, in proportion to the size of the settlement, given that resists the bakery and bar / tobacconist / newsagent, a hairdresser and another' beautician, but where those ' unfinished building and seized by the Court of Venice , built on the ashes of the pizzeria "Mario," hangs over the town like a sad omen ...
think that the mega-project of the "marina" has not played a role in all this is to underestimate the reality, since the revival of the village of Portegrandi had to pass because of "this" project: a project, in addition to the urban renewal area of \u200b\u200bdegraded, but still alive and busy just for being still so characteristic (I mean wing "Conca", or "pot" if you prefer), promised jobs .
In a kind of "plant" (as we say) with an activity would have meant giving each in the foot, as happened in the past to most of those who opened a business in one of the many new countries immersed in the network of shopping malls that imprisons our territory. Even so, according to information found at the site of the Marina Portegrandi, is not very clear which activities and services will be carried out precisely , especially as may be unexpended by the citizens non-proprietary or non-customers (hotel, of residence, etc. of the dock.). If we consider a project that just passed was turned over to the village a questionnaire in which he asked the citizens what kind of services and activities would wanted to be born in the dock, it is clear that anyone, before risking money and time, we have thought over and over again, until I decided that it was not worth the effort.
In short, the impression I have is that Portegrandi fact, in this situation, it is sitting on the riverbank waiting for it to pass not the corpse of his enemy - as the Chinese proverb - but his Saviour, who, however - because of delays, the economic crisis or simply a very ambitious project - we have been waiting for too long , to the point that the country not only has not been raised, but - as we have seen - in some ways is also regressed .
This in my opinion should make us reflect on a fundamental concept: when the solutions are not from the top and bottom (not from a need for concrete and localized, but ideal and packaged by a need to have more "appeal ") can bring more harm than good , even if made - total or partial - good faith.
That said, I'm curious to hear, on Friday, as "new scenarios" that lie ahead for this village, with Altino Trepalade and San Michele Vecchio, is the "heart " historic, traditional and cultural heritage of our country (In this regard reference to Article El Quarto de vecio speech, published exactly 10 years ago in the pages of Al Suq, and for which I had used the gentle "advice" of prof. Sartor, then engaged in writing of "medieval and modern Altino).
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