It was inaugurated Piazza delle Republics Marinare to Villa San Giovanniwork carried out thanks to financing of 2.1 million in the metropolitan cityresources the result of the agreement on “Pacts for the South” Reached, in 2016, by the Metropolitan Mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà and the National Government to encourage interventions aimed at the economic and social growth of the territory.
A non -place, therefore, has become a new place, just close to the Lungomare di Cannitello which represents, now, one of the most suggestive views on the Strait.
For the mayor Falcomatà there is “another piece to the idea that our metropolitan coast should also be united with respect to a territorial continuity, in line with the planning and planning of the choices of individual local authorities”.
“With this public work – he said – Villa San Giovanni and Reggio Calabria are even more united, sister cities embraced in a single community as it must be and just as even more will have to be with the future choices that will be done in terms of planning and sustainable urban development of our territories”.
“It is an important work for citizenship,” added Falcomatà, remarking the difference of the places between the “before and the after”: “Citizens reapprowate words such as” Waterfront “or” Lungomare “. Seeing so many people, in this new square, is the figure of the positive relapse that already exists in the area. Without the need for many proclamations, the square is frequented and when citizenship pushes so that the barriers take off, it means that it has already entered the hearts of citizens ». “This is a space that makes us a community,” said Falcomatà, stressing that “initiatives, concerts, better live the relationship between citizens and the sea” can be organized.
The mayor of Villa San Giovanni, Giusy Caminiti, thanked the mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà, recognizing him “the merit of having believed, since the beginning, to the realization of a work that becomes the most beautiful view of the tight one that Villa has ever had”.
“Piazza delle Repubbliche Marinare – he recalled – is the first public work that has been inaugurated in the city since 2004. The last had been Pizza Valsesia, removing the Cannitello’s eco -monster which is not a work of the city”.
The mayor said he was “widely satisfied” mainly because, in less than three years, “we managed to design, win, create and return what, once, was a degraded and abandoned parking area and which, now, represents a unique position of city cultural identity, where the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Ionian Sea meet, where the abysmal fish swim and where Villa fully recognizes its own destination for nautical tourism”. “This – concluded Giusy Caminiti – is the area that will have the greatest expansion in the vision of a tourist city that, from today, can find hope”.
Among others, the metropolitan councilor Giuseppe Marino and the presidents of the municipal councils of Reggio Calabria and Villa San Giovanni, Enzo Marra and Caterina Trecroci were present at the inauguration ceremony.