Tourism and transport, an iron pact with San Marino – Chronicle
by Donatella Filippi
Securing the expressway, the airport, but also a green corridor that connects the coast to the Titano. Relations between Rimini and San Marino have not always been cordial. Good neighbors, but more or less cooperative according to the administrations of Rimini and the governments of San Marino. The bell tower has always been involved … Only today has that collaboration been transformed into a shared strategic plan. And it is a historic pact. Because “we need San Marino and San Marino needs us – it does not revolve around the mayor of Rimini, Jamil Sdegholvaad – we need to tear down an invisible fence with concrete projects from which to return, together, to get up”.
The joint projects will be coordinated by two working groups, one of which is more institutional and the other purely technical. Politics thinks and technicians shape projects. The themes to bring to the tables are well-known projects, which he has been debating for a lifetime. Others are more recent. From active mobility to culture, passing through education and of course without forgetting health care, falling into the present day. The major road infrastructures, the airport, including the possible identification of new functions for the areas owned by the Republic of San Marino will be examined. But also sustainable mobility, such as the new cycle route, connections with the railway hub, road transport, and logistics. Overall initiatives will also be developed to enhance the cultural, artistic and landscape heritage, without neglecting economic development and tourism. Because, after all, the tourists of Rimini are also those of San Marino and working together is better than doing it alone. “The sharing was and is at the basis of the relaunch of the assets that connect the agreement – says the Titano Foreign Secretary, Luca Beccari, who went down to the Riviera morning together with Gatti, Belluzzi and Righi – in a situation, such as the current, which claims an ever greater cohesion in medium and long-term policies “. Starting from the expressway and airport.
“The keystone – they say in chorus from Rimini and San Marino – lies in collaboration. Creating a structural synergy, an organized field, which sees collaboration as the ‘rule’ of its modus operandi. In there are fundamental issues to define competitiveness and set aside parochialism, from the airport, to road transport, from environmental redevelopment, to water protection, to the theme of cultural promotion, of businesses, of the University “. And also sport and well-being will be able to unite the Riviera and the Titano with the realization of initiatives or sporting organization or linked to the well-being of the people, the conception and synergism of events that have a high, attractive and qualitative level. “It is necessary to relaunch – concludes the mayor of Rimini – to plan a restart open to a series of hitherto unexplored potential that can give new life to the territory. We cannot let this opportunity escape us”. Now all that remains is to sit at the tables and put your foot on the accelerator.