“The building needs to be restored. 280 signatures have already been collected”

Exploit of the petition, proposed and carried out by Rosanna Biondi, member of the Lista per Ravenna operational committee, so that the mayor wants to “Restore Palazzo Ghigi which has been in ruins and rot for years”. Launched just last Wednesday, but not yet publicized, it had already collected 280 signatures last Monday. The collection continues on the forms deposited at the Lista per Ravenna office, in the municipal building in Piazza del Popolo, and also, at the moment, at the Pellicceria Piazza del Popolo, the Tobacconist Rasponi and the Casa del Caffè Mokador in via Gioacchino Rasponi, the House of Plastic and Toys in via Mentana, the Tabaccheria da Pam in via degli Spreti at number 55/57. Citizens, Italian or foreign, at least 16 years old, who reside or carry out their main work or study activity in the municipal area of ​​Ravenna can sign the petition, the civic body reminds us. Casa Ghigi is a monumental palace located in via Raul Gardini, in the historic center of Ravenna, dating back to the late Renaissance fifteenth century, at the time of Venetian rule, of which it represents one of the few remaining testimonies in our city. In 2021, recalls a press note from the civic list, “the de Pascale Council announced that it had placed Casa Ghigi at the center of a safety project, costing 200 thousand euros, with the aim “of eliminating the most damaging phenomena obvious issues affecting the building and in particular the consolidation of the portico and staircase of the former registry building””.

This communication was then issued: “The interventions affect both the foundations and the elevated part of the portico and stairwell, currently shored up. The main objective of the feasibility study drawn up and approved is the conservation of the property, which has a high value from a historical-architectural point of view and therefore falls within the definition of cultural property”. Since then, however, nothing has been heard of it.

Hence the intent declared by the petition: “To remind the municipal administration of its duties and responsibilities, in the face of its own negligence/carelessness and inability to protect such a precious cultural asset, dear to the city.