«The rowing against Agrigento Italian Capital of Culture 2025, also using as a pretext events completely detached from the context of municipal competence such as the very recent blunders on some road signspromises to be a recurring practice in 2025 as it was in 2024. Faced with this, we do not intend to give up at all, nor to be discouraged, nor to pursue any controversy or invective that is sterile and not at all constructive. Agrigento, Italian Capital of Culture, is a game, and we have decided to play to win».
This was stated by the mayor of the city, Francesco Miccichè, which intervenes following the controversy that arose in reference to some spelling errors that emerged in an Anas road sign which was later removed. And he adds: «After the designation and programming, the game has just begun. We expect President Sergio Mattarella and Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli shortly. In the stands, as for any self-respecting match, there are those who support and others against. We play by aiming straight at the net, without distractions. At the end, the sole judge will be the result.”
“The year of ‘Agrigento capital of culture’ isn’t starting well. Hit by a controversy that ricochets from Anas onto the Writers’ Route.
The road signs placed with some obvious grammatical errors are a blow to a demanding job to shake a piece of Sicily from an ancient sleep, also with seminars and masters organized for ten years with Treccani”. Thus in a note Felice Cavallaro, director of ‘Strada degli Scrittori association, referring to press articles about some road signs indicating the Strada degli Scrittori with obvious misgrammaticals and to the initiatives for Agrigento Italian Capital of Culture 2025.
“The approximation now overwhelms us – he continues -, even without any responsibility on our part, with damage to the image that falls on those who try to attract the attention of aware travelers along the places of the great authors at work around the Temples. everyone thus risks slipping into the headlines of sites and newspapers that do not distinguish between perpetrators and victims, in some cases ignoring the commitment of an association that has been mobilizing healthy forces in small and large centers on culture and legality for decades of a connecting road two provinces. And of a denomination that arrived long after the birth of the association animated by students, young readers, enthusiasts, university professors, always ready to lend a hand, but sometimes ignored when operational decisions are made”. For Cavallaro, the error of the Anas cartels “could be considered a single episode unrelated to the events and projects of ‘Agrigento Capitale’. But the glaring delays of the projects themselves and the confused context in which everything takes place produce criticism and irony capable of demolishing the enthusiasm of those who had worked and would still like to hope for a turning point”.