Viterbo – Alfredo Passeri, university professor at Sapienza and Roma Tre: “It is disturbing to see the narrative of a city where everything goes well, because we lose sight of the priorities and among these there is the Santa Rosa machine museum”
by Daniele Camilli
Viterbo – “Mayor Frontini passes off the asphalting as a big project, but then she doesn’t carry out the real works”. Alfredo Passeri, university professor, until a few years ago at the architecture faculties of Sapienza and Roma Tre. The other morning, he too, together with Maurizio Errigo, professor of urban planning at Sapienza and the Delft Polytechnic in the Netherlands, and Angelo Russo, creator of Symphony of Strings, was at the press conference From dream to decay at the Aless don Milani in Palazzo Grandori in Viterbo.
“A conference – Russo points out – to which we invited all the city councilors, the mayor and the entire council, but no one showed up. So much for dialogue and discussion.”
Viterbo – Alfredo Passeri
“It is disturbing to see the narrative of a city where everything is fine – continues Passeri -. Because we lose sight of priorities. Asphalting the roads, which is portrayed on social media as a great work, is just ordinary maintenance.”
What are the priorities for Passeri? “First of all, the old hospital – he immediately points out -. Many announcements and proposals for reuse have been made, but we are still at year zero. Then the INPS spa, the former Bank of Italy, the Donna Olimpia palace in San Martino, the latter in desperate conditions. Then the parking lot of the Shrine which is made up of all the carryover materials from the Second World War. A place where you can make a two-story car park.”
Viterbo – Angelo Russo, Maurizio Errigo and Alfredo Passeri
Finally, among the priorities listed by Passeri, the Santa Rosa machine museum. “A question – explains Passeri – that arises from afar. In 2016, the administration of mayor Leonardo Michelini gave me the task of coordinating a group that worked for a year producing a 90-page dossier. In that group, among others, there were also the councilor for culture Giacomo Barelli, the city councilor Maria Rita De Alexandris, Angelo Russo, the president of the Santa Rosa porters association Massimo Mecarini and the creator of Gloria Raffaele Ascenzi . Once the dossier was presented, however, nothing further was done about it. A museum that could add value to its heritage.”
“The machine museum – concludes Passeri – would be an extraordinary tourist attraction. Not only that, but on the one hand the machines of Santa Rosa, which today are in a warehouse along the Tuscanese, would have a point of reference, on the other the identity of the machine-city of Santa Rosa, a UNESCO heritage site, would stop starting and ending only with September 3rd, as happens every year.”
Daniele Camilli
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