natural caves, tunnels UNDERGROUND, historic buildings. VILLABATE traces a century of its history: A HERITAGE YET TO BE DISCOVERED AND SAVE
Emanuele Minnella
Villabate Welcome! Reads just like the billboard at the entrance of our town.
A very small territory, but unable to accept today almost twice the population of only fifteen years ago.
Merit, this, our local architects and builders, in terms of hospitality, have been able to do "best" of the country's political class, retrieving the height that the plan had already been exhausted by uncontrolled illegal building.
The same as from the 70s onwards, he found ways to innovate in our home and legalization.
"La Conca D'oro," meaning that huge expanse of citrus groves and orange groves that once was Villabate in the collective imagination of today is only a legend that continues to be passed down from father to son, an image of beauty, a mixture odors and flavors that we young people we will never recognize.
Yet even in our country has its own story. Only that was erased by untold amounts of iron and cement.
to rebuild, we will rely, therefore, curious and patient, the story of the stones, the only survivors all'inciviltà the human race.
Villa Marinuzzi it still preserves some of them. Are the columns that look tuff along the alley that connects the street, Corso Vittorio Emanuele Terranova. Everything else is as if it never existed. Demolished. Converted. Absent even on the web portal of the City of Villabate.
Palazzo Migliaccio-term is, however, still in place. The huge wooden door at the entrance of the Corso Vittorio Emanuele, guards inside the faded frescoes, but still full of meaning. Meaning that its owners are struggling to understand: the humidity, in a few years, it will take, little by little, some other piece and no one will notice.
Villabate Then there's the underground, unknown to the younger generation, that of the tunnels, the catacombs, the availability of the Scirocco, where they are not stones, but the mystery that surrounds them, their value.
A value still to be discovered, if we expect to save a land development alternative to what our fathers have done in practice.
Today we are orphans of a past that is no surprise than 150 years old. As many will carry our City in 2008. 150 years to rebuild, not without a little effort. Fatigue at the time also leaves room for the festivities on the occasion.
The Municipal Library, the symbol of a culture that seeks to redeem himself, was chosen as the ideal place in which events will take place in the program.
of all this, but not only, we talked with the Assessor Marsala in the following interview.
1. Councillor, to begin with, his opinion on the state of Cultural Heritage in Villabate. There is an emergency or a priority of which is already being done or load it intended to solve in the shortest possible time? Unfortunately
"as soon as possible "does not solve anything. After years of neglect and in some cases of looting, will have to handle a delegation that has never existed in any previous administration, now I just have to see to find the year zero. The cultural Villabate are few, all in private hands and all (except for the bandstand) falling!
2. you can go back in time? should be? In that way his department has been activated or is activated to find funds and / or plan of action?
The City can not have own funds to purchase and restore everything, then you will need access to regional funding. Because you are not never raised the issue of recovery of cultural projects have not found ready except for Villa Vitale (the process for accessing funding ran up three months ago in a mishap that has frustrated all) and the Cinema in the Palm PRG is based on the last declaration of public interest, otherwise you're starting from scratch.
3. 150 Years of the City. She announced a full calendar of public events to be held during 2008. Can offirci a preview?
There are so many ideas, the only limit would be the resources of the City so this year, according to the 2008 Budget, there is a decline in revenue. The conferences will address several issues that have affected the country's 150 years of history, but still a full lineup is not defined. We are planning a series of concerts to complete the concert season has already begun in December. We are working to prepare for competitions in the field of poetry (Salmon Award), and the singing of the photo-film. For the moment it is a work in progress!
4. The Teatro delle Palme. Citizens villabatesi very confident in its reopening. Do you think it possible? How long do you think it will take to resolve the legal question or concerns regarding the ownership of the property? The City of Villabate will buy it or what?
Cinema On Palm is not a dispute (on the bandstand, if anything!) must be assessed in an amount that will meet the owners: to be noted that the declaration of public interest of the PRG is the antechamber of expropriation, then on the basis of this we must return to open negotiations.
5. The change of opening hours of the Municipal Library, and the purchase of 300 chairs to be placed inside. And the books? How you can enhance the services of the structure and the number of users? E 'can give a "statistics" of what currently takes place within a well that many municipalities envy us?
The chairs are required pursuant to the City for public outdoor events and apart from the enhancement of the Library. Now the opening hours are also extended to Wednesday afternoon. These days you are transferring the IP offices in the premises of the old town hall and in this way will be given back its dignity to the Library that had been converted into an office handling practices. For some months there is a Library Board (which although provided for in Regulation dated 2003 was never mentioned). In this regard I would like to indicate the presence of eminent personalities which are part of the Council: the former president of the maxi-trial, Judge Alfonso Giordano, the literary critic Professor Vincenzo Di Marco and our esteemed fellow citizen, Professor Vincenzo Barba. A board of high quality, the objective of increasing the opening hours of the afternoon together with the staff in the facility are a key step to design, organize and coordinate all future cultural initiative in the City
6. The Christmas events. The cribs have enabled people to rediscover the Villabate underground. There are ideas in progress to enhance these areas at other times of the year?
Villabate The underground has always been a topic shrouded in mystery. My intention is to do a mapping of all natural and artificial cavities in the country, to understand the past uses and, where possible, to think potential for educational purposes or just to tour these underground routes (it is also thought along with some members of the CAI to train local personnel to serve as a guide visits). To conclude: the ideas are many and there will be a lot of work. I knew I had put in a "great adventure". Let me congratulations.
A calendar to celebrate 150 years of City
12 shots, nearly all signed by Prestigiacomo, villabatese historical photographer, reporting to the memory of the early '20s and accompany us until the 80s.
quotidianna life situations, traditional crafts, a Villabate unrecognizable in the background, the ancient flavor, free from cars and palaces of Today, the Villabate postwar economic boom and, a rich Villabate identity and tradition.
"The message we wanted to give the calendar-state Department for Cultural Heritage, is that the history they made men."
The calendar is distributed free at the local Public Library Edward Salmon. Any interested citizen may request a copy, which, in the first reissue, has already registered a full house.
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