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06 May 2024 15:43
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Ercolano, Piazza Carlo di Borbone inaugurated with Renzi and De Luca
HERCULANEUM – A great event animated the city of Herculaneum this morning. Near Via Resina, which overlooks the Herculaneum excavations, the square dedicated to Charles of Bourbon was inaugurated with great fanfare. The event was attended by the mayor Ciro Buonajuto, the senator Matteo Renzi and the president of the Campania Region Vincenzo De Luca.
“To affirm an idea of legality and beauty, culture is needed. Don’t believe those who say that culture is useless, you can’t eat with culture. Culture is everything. It is the key to the identity of Herculaneum, of Naples , of Italy and of Europe. Culture is what will save us. Be proud of this great historic day.”
Matteo Renzi, leader of Italia Viva, said this at the opening of Piazza Carlo di Borbone in Herculaneum which overlooks the archaeological park of the ancient Herculaneum.
“This square, which overlooks the archaeological park of the ancient Herculaneum, is dedicated to Charles of Bourbon, – added the president of the Campania Region, Vincenzo De Luca, – the one who started the construction of the Royal Palace of Caserta”. “Charles of Bourbon – continued Vincezo De Luca – was one of the exponents of a dynasty that also governed the South of our country. Against that dynasty the young people of Italy fought in the mid-19th century to achieve the unity of our country. It was the Risorgimento, the time in which young people and intellectuals had decided to achieve the unity of Italy, which at the moment, this Government, is destroying. They are doing the counter-Risorgimento!”. “If this hypothesis continues – concluded President De Luca – of differentiated autonomy, the South is dead: healthcare in the South, schools and public transport are dead. The citizens have not yet fully understood the danger represented by differentiated autonomy. We will have to fight even more, as the Campania Region. Unfortunately, we must resist because if they move forward in that direction, the South is dead also the unification of Italy”.
“Piazza Carlo di Borbone – concluded the mayor of Ercolano and national vice president of Anci Ciro Buonajuto – is not only a work of urban regeneration but above all a work of social redevelopment which began in 2014. A unique work in its genre because it is the result of the partnership between the Municipality of Ercolano, the archaeological park and a philanthropist, the American magnate David Junior Packard. Seeing so many citizens but above all teenagers and children is a great satisfaction for a mayor, the best victory for all of Ercolano”.
The Neo-Bourbons also showed great satisfaction: “Now we struggle to remember all the municipalities in which it was decided to name a street or square after the Bourbons – declared Prof. Gennaro De Crescenzo, president of the Neo-Bourbon Movement -. This time it’s up to in Herculaneum with a great added value: it is a large square that overlooks those wonderful excavations commissioned by the Bourbons.
Thanks to mayor Buonajuto, the council, those responsible for the excavations and their international sponsors: that square – adds De Crescenzo – has now become a positive symbol from a negative symbol, as the authorities also declared. This too, however, is the fruit of all these years of neo-Bourbon cultural battles. Even so, history changes. Despite appeals, petitions, thousands of signatures and ‘overwhelming’ polls, only the city of Naples is missing, the ancient capital still the “victim” of a narrow political-intellectual elite with few roots and little pride which seems to have no intention to give space to the real characters who made Naples the capital, perhaps replacing the ‘fake heroes of the homeland'”.
“As a young man from Portico, I am very happy that three nearby Vesuvian cities, such as San Giorgio a Cremano, passing through Portici and today Ercolano, in just a few years have rediscovered the history of a great family and a great King like Charles of Bourbon, who gave so much to these areas – declared Emilio Caserta, youth director of the Neo-Bourbon Movement – this means that there is a cultural revolution underway, and that there are many presences even in the institutions that are rediscovering certain truths, but above all there are citizens who they make their voices heard on these issues. We young people also need this to be proud of being Neapolitans, from Portico, from Ercolano and from the South”.
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