One of the many jewels set on the hills to be returned to public use, to be transformed into a “laboratory of social and cultural experimentation”. And in the largest urban park in the southern area of the city. These are the plans that the Municipality has for Strong slapone of the most representative Umbertine fortifications of the defensive system of the Strait of Messina, built between 1889 and 1890 and located in Santa Lucia above Contensses, the fort is configured not only as a tangible testimony of the nineteenth -century military strategy. The Basile junta, on the proposal of the commissioner Enzo Caruso, has approved in recent days the address document to the design, which aims at an investment of 4.3 million euros.
Moreover, the intervention extends over an overall area of about 25 thousand square meters, inside which there are the fort (1,800 square meters), the spaces discovered (2,820 square meters) and the appurtenances which, in fact, are intended for the creation of the large 20 thousand square meters urban park, now characterized by spontaneous vegetation and some specimens of plane trees that will be kept. Currently the main access takes place from via Military Santa Lucia, “with the need for adjustments to guarantee better and safer accessibility” reads the document.
As for the real strong, the surfaces covered to be recovered are above all former dormitories, warehouses and ammunition deposits, while the external areas uncovered include the central courtyard and internal routes to the complex. On the edge of the area then there are ruins of perimeter buildings, of which only external walls are preserved.
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