Closed in 2020 for hygienic-sanitary deficiencies, reopened (illegally) in February 2022 and finally definitively canceled by the map of the city markets by an ordinance (September of the same year) signed by the manager of the economic and productive activities sector, Francesco Giovinazzo, for safety reasons (an inspection of the Fire Brigade had ascertained the fall of plasters from the beams of the Mancini bridge). But for three years, that is, since the direct farmers and street vendors have been evicted by the fence of via Asmara, adjacent to the house of San Francesco, the area once animated by boxes and stalls, pays in the most complete state of abandonment. Everything has been left on the canopies and on the ground: cassettes, plastic, platforms, waste of all kinds. The scenario that presented himself days ago in the eyes of those who wanted to turn the last farewell to the body of Father Fedele, reaching the chapel dedicated to Sant’Anna in the former Franciscan oasis founded by the Monaco, is not edifying. A corner of the world abandoned by everyone. Once emptied, the area was at least reclaimed.
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