“I have had a shop in Venice for 59 years and I see the city changed by 360 degrees”. letters
In response to the letter: “Venice is greedy for money. It would be time for a sustainable project “.
I read a few comments on the fly, there are some for all tastes, the usual id … who takes it out on the radical chic, arguing that large ships do not create wave motion (pity that the university studies of Padua affirm that the passage of a large ship through the Giudecca canal causes damage of 10 high tides of 1 meter and 10. There are those who blame the Venetians, and not completely wrongly, some politicians, rightly so.
I had a shop in Venice for 59 years, between my father and me, and I saw the city changed by 360 degrees. The tourist flows diverted first from piazzale Roma to the Tronchetto, where a local crime has flourished and proliferated for decades, then the construction of the Constitution bridge (Calatrava), yet another favor to a well-known family, after the Ridotto theater, the Cinema San Marco, the Fontego of the Germans, etc.
Multiple faults of politics but which have the name of a mayor passed for a left-wing mayor when instead he completed his journey with his last term elected by parties such as league, Alleanza Nazionale, Forza Italia, and Margherita in addition to the approved list. For that bridge that smashed the city to make the Cannaregio district unlivable due to the abnormal The explosion of wild stalls is there for all to see, the out-of-control wave motion and pollution, IUAV’s latest study, too.
And what about the current mayor? One who dumps him in the city after 7 years in office, uses GPS to return to Piazzale Roma. Unfortunately, the mayor of Venice makes a decision in Mestre. In the municipality of the historic center, if we exclude Murano, Burano and Sant’Erasmo it took less than 27%.
I have always been a unionist with Mestre but if there is another referendum to separate Venice from Mestre I will vote for the separation because the future of the city in which my family lives, in memory of my elders, since 1851, the date of my great-grandfather’s birth, it cannot be decided by those who do not live there in Venice and do not experience the daily collapse of the city.
Unfortunately, a comedy from an operetta is the last thing that is needed for poor Venice.
Neno
(signed letter)