Cremona Sera – The slaughterhouse is demolished, the post office is demolished. The current Porta Po was born (1962).

The two photographs we propose are from Giuseppe Faliva and show the creation of the new Porta Po-piazza Cadorna. In this way they wanted to give prestige to the access to the city from the river and Corso Vittorio Emanuele along a straight line which perhaps follows an ancient decumanus of the Roman city (and continuing Farinacci’s plans for triumphal access to Piazza Littoria). Today the Porta Po fountain is turned off and on the flowerbed stands the ugly rusty totem of an urban regeneration that could have had a very different outcome. But the idea of ​​the late 1950s and early 1960s (the two photos date back to 1962) was to have a large fountain in the center that recalled the gushing of water that made the agricultural fortune of our province ( “the most fertile land in the world” said the agronomist Ernesto Cervi Ciboldi) and the course of the Po river which once flowed right there. In the first photograph you can see what remains of the old public slaughterhouse which was being demolished in front of Santa Lucia to make room for the INPS headquarters (which the organization would like to abandon). On the right of the photograph there are the remains of what remains of the Post and Telegraph headquarters on which an apartment building was built