Yesterday’s collapse in the historic center of Cosenza, unfortunately, is not an isolated episode. Many other sagging have occurred over the years, a sign of a beautiful historic center but with clay feet.
The administrations that followed at Palazzo dei Bruzi tried to identify solutions to stem the problem and revive a village with suggestive alleys and characteristic squares. Not to mention the ancient palaces and homes, labels of an illustrious past that gave birth to philosophers, writers and poets whose thought and ideas have contributed to the passage in the modern era. However, the old neighborhood of Cosenza, claudicant, is fragile, at least in the innermost part, where buildings are ready to crumble for breadsticks.
Yesterday, in fact, the umpteenth roar (a attic came down inside a degraded property) warned in a morning like many others, in via Lucrezia della Valle, in the upper area of the historic center. The firefighters who proceeded to cordon the affected area were promptly arrived on the spot: a stable dangerous and declared unusable, so much so that the current executive led by the mayor, Franz Caruso, seems to have already included it in the list of buildings to be secured through the accessibility interventions in the field of CIS, the institutional development contracts.
Ten, in all: currently it is operating in via companion, between not much in the Santa Lucia district and now also in via Lucrezia della Valle in urgent mode. Yesterday morning to coordinate the operations, the Councilor for Civil Protection, Veronica Buffone, in contact with the delegate to the CIS and the urban agenda, Francesco Alimena and the mayor Franz Caruso, assisted by a municipal police patrol. Obviously, the neighboring roads to guarantee residents of residents closed.
I took over the dogs found inside the building, temporarily transferred to the municipal kennel. Net of the collapses, the Caruso executive has started a series of works in the ancient village, some already brought to buying, others in the advanced phase. Recently delivered to the city, for example, the Vecchia Villa, the subject of a widespread restyling.