«Lampetia is disappearing. Let’s save her”. This is the appeal launched on social media by a citizen of Cetrara, Francesco Iacovowhich interprets the concern of an entire community. A generalized concern, therefore, which affects, in particular, the many residents of the area and the tourist and seaside operators who work here in the summer period, determined by the current and serious conditions in which what is, in fact, the location with the greatest vocation tourism of the Tyrrhenian town, further compromised by the storms of recent times.
The greatest damage affects and is extremely evident especially in the final stretch of the locality, near the Rizzo Caves and of the cliff of the same name, where, in recent days, a further advance of the sea has been recorded, whose erosive action has practically destroyed what little remained of the road and sidewalk of the seafront, built only a few years ago.
Following this, even the electricity line poles are now just a few meters from the shoreline and also risk being soon sucked into the sea waters. «We are first in everything. We are the first country in the world with lighting directly on the beach”, another citizen commented in this regard, with ironic bitterness, Valerio Piazzaa well-known fisherman from Cetrara, who, in the past, has also repeatedly denounced the dangers deriving from the silting up of the mouth of the town’s port. The citizens of Cetrara therefore appeal to the competent institutions, so that the conditions can finally be created to safeguard and save what remains of Lampetia, increasingly devastated by periodic sea storms and coastal erosion.
