a heritage to be protected and valued”
First convivial of the 2023 social year for the Soroptimist Single Club San Marino. An evening dedicated to friendship, discussion and culture. In addition to the good cuisine of the Antica Trattoria Ugolini, in via Sottomontana, guests were delighted by the important contribution of the architect Mirco Semprini who spoke of I Mulini di Canepa: a heritage to be protected and valued. An argument in line with the aims of Soroptimist International which has been working since its origins for the defense of the environment and its sustainability. The mills of Canepa once constituted an integrated system of six water mills which, placed at different heights along the ditch of Canepa, collaborated with each other, in the sense that they were built in such a way as to facilitate the passage of water from one to the other. Owned by the Most Excellent Chamber, today it represents the oldest (and now the only) industrial archeology complex in our area, located in a naturalistic-landscape area of particular environmental value, very popular with hikers. The mills are inserted between the historical-monumental buildings and the archaeological artifacts placed under protection by law 147/2005; some of them have been involved in the past in restoration and partial restoration interventions, which will need to be resumed and continued to avoid the definitive degradation of this tangible testimony of economic-productive and social life of our past. The complex was the object of study by the architect Semprini and the architect Luca Morganti, co-authors of the publications “I mulini della Valmarecchia” (1999) and “I mulini del fosso di Canepa” (2016): for the latter they created and proposed, since 2003, a Plan for the construction of the Water Park-Museum, with the aim of recovering the structures as far as possible, using the spaces for the documentation of the testimonies relating to the functioning of the machines and the different types of production , restore and/or create paths, or create the premises for the enhancement of the area and its usability for tourist-cultural purposes. The Park-Museum of Water has remained on paper: there remains only the hope and hope that it will soon, certainly gradually, be able to resume its discourse. The Semprini architect is a freelancer, an expert in architectural planning, restoration, urban planning, green and landscape design; he is remembered for the restoration of Villa Manzoni in Dogana and the Philatelic and Numismatic Museum in San Marino. He was president of the Order of Engineers and Architects of the Republic of San Marino and is currently a member and regional contact person, for San Marino, of AIAMS (Italian Association of Friends of Historic Mills), which collaborates in the organization of Macinare cultura-Festival of Historical mills of Emilia Romagna: a festival that in the last two years has also touched our Republic with theatrical events.
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