Porto San GiorgioSalara, the shame of a forgotten heritage. On the night between June 30 and July 1st, a part of the east facade of Salara literally collapsed. The workers’ society with an open letter to the city gives news. A failure that, according to the partnership, does not surprise much given the extreme conditions degradation in which he pours, in the heart of via Properzi in Porto San Giorgio, that building abandoned to himself for too long without even considering the risks related to his presence for public safety and also for public hygiene having become a receptacle for rats and pigeons. To report it strongly is the G. Garibaldi worker companywho for years has been fighting for the protection of Salara, bound by the Superintendency over forty years ago – precisely on his request: “Yet – he underlines – despite this bond and the importance that the regulatory plan recognizes to the Salara (described as’ warehouse of ‘salts’ already in the cadastre of 1818), the result is from all eyes: degradation, neglect, disinterest.
The association also recalls that for the municipal administration it had to become a museum, a cultural place that was completely missing in the city. Instead, it has become an abandoned ruin. Also remember that for years only chiusures of doors and windows have been made, some removal of fake tiles, small ratops. But no true intervention, no vision, no concrete will by the property or the Municipality. And this would say a lot about how little I count, in certain environments, culture and historical memory. Yet Salara is a symbol. It exists in the drawings of 1667 preserved in the British Library in London, isolated on the beach, with its tower to the south. It is a piece of identity of the city. It is the latest building of the genre left. He is a witness, and deserves much more fate. For this reason, the worker company launches a heartfelt appeal to the administration: that we proceed with the tools provided by the PRG to acquire Salara for public use – not necessarily with the expropriation, but with an administrative procedure already indicated months ago by the ‘National Forum we save the landscape‘. A concrete gesture is needed to restore a common good to the city, and save it from a degradation that is no longer tolerable.
Silvio Sebastiani
