Better late than ever? Yes, there are times when the popular sayings reflect reality. And if it is true that for too many years the area of the former Messina fair is “off limits”, It is also true that the laying of the green mantle was sufficient for (re) begin to dream of a different future. Very little is enough, on some occasions, to understand that the simplest things are the ones I like most in the end.
“There is a large green lawn where hopes are born …”, he sang the legendary Gianni Morandi in his “world of love”. Here, look at it: the fieristic citadel, suddenly, is changing aspect. It will not be open to the public by the end of summer, the president of the port system of the Strait, the lawyer, said it clearly. Ciccio Rizzo, but probably in September yes. At least that part that is the subject of the redevelopment interventions, cOn the project of the new urban park, to be connected, ideally and physically, to the walk to the sea. That part where a new building had been foreseen, which should have taken the place of the old theater at the fair, that of the shows staged between the seventies and eighties, the one abandoned for decades, the one occupied by the activists of the “Pinelli”, the one razed to the ground for lack of the essential anti -seismic requirements. Then, things went differently. There was a city mobilization, with the intervention also of authoritative characters such as the Constitutionalist, of Messina origins, Michele Ainis, and the then president of the Authority, Mario Paolo Mega, has decided to stop that project. No more volumes on the seafront of the city, but a green area, a “bis” sea walk, To be included, then, in the general context of the new Waterfront between the Torrenti Annunziata and Boccetta. Here, one of the most beautiful dreams for Messina: imagine a single coast, from Villa Sabin to the Lungomare del Ringo, from the Rada di San Francesco (which will be converted as soon as the new port of Tremestieri will be completed and inaugurated) to the old fair district, and then also go further, to via Vittorio Emanuele with the curtain of the port and ideally reconnect to the area where the demolitions are underway (ex -warehouses general. Former fish market, former port House, former silos granai), and then touching the customs and reaching the central and maritime stations, both to convert if the construction of the bridge on the narrow should start.
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