is how the soul of a dying city, its historic center.
These are the steps most interesting an article published in the Corriere della Sera of yesterday, 28 October signed by Raffaele Palumbo .
And I ask myself: WHY
'LET THIS HAPPEN?!?
<< So the center is dying Aquila
not started or demolitions or renovations. And now the weather may get worse still things
L'AQUILA - The soul of the city. With these words Aquila's refer to the historical center, in practice the city of L'Aquila-only device. But nearly seven months, the center is called "red zone", no one can set foot and to enter only the Fire Department and the companies involved in shoring up damaged buildings and to complete the relocation of homes left standing. Yet seven months later, the center of the Eagle is not too different from how it appeared after the earthquake. The ruins are so amazing, along with debris, dust, garbage and all those bits of shattered lives that we had seen a few hours after the quake. Personal items, photos, clothing, dolls, computer monitors, mixed with pieces of plaster, bricks, cornices come down.
NO DEMOLITION OR RESTORATION - In the heart of the Eagle did not start the program of demolition of the buildings now irrecoverable. He has not left the restoration of private buildings, the public sector, nor those of artistic and architectural. And they are numerous. In many areas roads have been cleared and the debris piled in the center of a square or a street corner. The Region of Abruzzo has mandated to expand the sites where they can be entrusted with the remains of buildings earthquake, but by the time the operation has not started yet. The first issue of the "red zone" is this: remove the rubble. Fighters fire are working tirelessly to try to protect all the buildings of extraordinary beauty - the churches, cathedrals, historic buildings - from the inevitable. After a bitter first taste of fall and a couple of weeks almost summer, L'Aquila is about to get cold, rain, winter. " THE CITY 'IS DYING " - " Right now the priority - most just - was to give shelter to those who had lost," says Marina Marinucci, Aquila editorial journalist of "Il Centro ". "But in the meantime - he says - the town is dying, has not begun any work of recovery and restoration, and will soon be too late." The center is propped up almost anywhere. Wooden frames to hold the window to enclose a porch large belts, hoses innocent people everywhere, and then bolts, steel pins used to do, other wood to act as a buttress to a ledge that seems to stand by a miracle. The city seems in some areas, such as bombed. is not just a problem of the old town, there are the suburbs, Santa Barbara, Comb, San Giuliano. Yet, since the spotlight on the "red zone" have been extinguished, including the Aquila winds a terrifying thought. The city of L'Aquila, as they have known, lived, loved and lived, no longer exist, it can not be resurrected. The housing problems have been partially resolved, while four thousand people remain in tents and thousands more waiting for a home staying in a hotel on the coast. "But here, Aquila - Marinucci says - there's a whole church, and all the buildings of institutions, from the Prefecture to the City to the Province, are heavily damaged and the rain and bad weather will come soon to finish the job . And then there are even entire buildings from shore. will never live this? .
UNIVERSITY COURSES IS NOT STOPPED - Anna Tellini teaches Russian Literature at the Faculty of Humanities. Teaches, not taught. Even if the power is completely collapsed, such as engineering. "After the earthquake, the lessons we have ended in a tent at the Pole of couples, where there is the faculty of sciences. Then summer's examinations were held outdoors on the lawn. And then from October 19 we took lessons in Bazzano, in an industrial building. The second half but we do it in juvenile prison. At the next academic year do not even want to think. " It is estimated that the damage done by the University of L'Aquila bypass is between 150 and 180 million euro. The decline in subscribers was - predictably - vistosissimo. The off-site no longer know where to stay, many students find it difficult to move forward. "Many of them have panic attacks, it is not easy work. But we remain - says Anna Tellini - not to condemn this city to death. Resist, to keep alive the soul of the city. " The soul of the city. Everyone uses this expression. Collemaggio soul is called, is called Santa Maria Paganica, gutted and roofless - beautiful even in its devastation - which can not be covered and protected because all protection would fly away. His name is Santa Maria degli Angeli, with the dome of Raphael, horribly drawn and beautifully protected. It's called Ardinghelli Palace, Palace of the Nobles, recently renovated, Palazzo Margherita, the Town Hall, Quinzi palace, which the Province, after reconditioned had given the grammar schools. All destroyed. Empty shells, as the rector, or as the Duomo, which appeared in the facade saved, but imploded in and open pit.
CATHEDRAL SQUARE - Around the "red zone" inhabited only by men in uniform, fire trucks, continues. We are in Piazza del Duomo, the marketplace, one where the local farmers brought every morning the good earth produces. Seems to be gone. But above all, now, seems a utopia. Cerasoli Anna is a writer who has just attended a literary festival [...]. While Anna Cerasoli speaks, it starts to rain and she shakes her head. With the hand indicates the rubble from which sprout bushes. "It's been seven months and we are still in these conditions, rain, tempers the rubble, crumbling houses, churches, all rot. It seems impossible to think that the Eagle will become a new town and all this will nothing. " The story of Cerasoli is interrupted by a professor of Russian literature. Anna Tellini, as we walk in the narrow streets of the center says "I lived here." He wants us to only see the hallway, but firefighters who join us say it is not certain, that you can not. The tug of war going on for several minutes, but inside, you can not enter. Everything seems on the verge of collapse at moment.
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Raffaele Palumbo
October 28, 2009>>
I've never been to L'Aquila, but one day I want to go.
L'Aquila must not die, because the center of a city is its soul.
