ANCONA – The Portonovo bar ex Ramona will be knocked down but the area will be redeveloped and soon used for the sale and consumption of zero-kilometer fish products, to promote local fish and the excellence of the area. This is the intention of the Municipality of Ancona which has published a announcement of tender for the assignment of a maritime state concession, precisely, a Portonovo in the former Ramona area, for the maintenance of a masonry building with a platform in front and with the possibility of using a further platform. This, among other things, is the area where the huts of the first fishermen who frequented the area, as can be seen from the historical photographs of the Ancona beach.
In place of the former Ramona, what was the last – illegal – bar built on the Portonovo beach towards Mezzavalle and at the beginning of the free beach, the municipal administration intends to establish activities linked to professional fishing service equipment, to the boat shelter, storage, treatment and sale of fish products and warehouses for equipment. In particular, as indicated in the notice, the proposals which involve the sale and consumption of fish products at zero kilometers or, as they say, short supply chain.
At the basis of the procedure there is evidently the intention to put in place a architectural redevelopment through the recovery of the artefact covered by the tender, following the demolition of the front portion, carried out in the absence of qualifications, and theculling of the former Ramona bar, which also has no building permits. «Our aim – explains the Heritage councilor Angelo Eliantonio – is twofold: on the one hand we want redevelop a stretch of great natural and aesthetic value of the bay of Portonovo and, on the other, we want promote our deepest gastronomic traditionlinked to the culture of the sea, through highly sustainable activities with zero impact on the territory”.
The concession will be issued, as stated in the announcement, to the professional fishing economic operator, individual or associated, who will present the best economic and technical offer in terms of recovery of the structures, respecting the environmental peculiarities of the places. The concession will last six years. The annual concession fee is quantifiable for the first year, 2024, in 3,225.50 euros.
