Waterfront, not just the Madonna dei Martiri district. The procedure for the promenade on the village begins – MolfettaLive.it

The project has always been known: to connect, through a promenade, the western coast to the village, ensuring that in Molfetta there could be a seafront promenade close to the coast, accessible on foot or by bicycle, for the benefit of citizens and tourists.

Now the pieces of the puzzle are starting to come together.

The redevelopment of the waterfront to the west, from Torre Calderina to the entire Viale dei Crociati and up to the Secca dei Pali, is almost a reality: the imposing public work is a construction site underway, in the near home stretch, and already very evident. The notable impact: the Rione Madonna dei Martiri is unrecognizable. For the better.

Next it will be the turn of the next piece of the puzzle which involves the union between Spiaggia Maddalena and Banchina San Domenico.
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This was decided by the Municipal Council which established “as an act of direction of the Municipal Administration the redevelopment of the Molfetta seafront from the Secca dei Pali area to the Ancient Center along Via Dante with the Banchina Seminario and up to the Church of Purgatory, extending , in this way, the walkway that leads from Piazza Madonna dei Martiri to the ancient heart of the city”.

This is a large project, as ambitious as it is widespread in its interventions because it will also reach the heart of the village, Corso Dante.
The objective of the “progressive pedestrianization of Via Dante”, as is clearly written in the minutes of the Council meeting, is not a mystery so as to be able to have the “recovery of the relationship between the city and the sea through the reduction of traffic on the coast, redevelopment and increase in the attractive power of central areas, promotion of more environmentally friendly forms of mobility”.

“The permanent establishment of a one-way traffic system – is the Council’s further consideration – makes it possible to foresee the reduction of the roadway, making it possible to widen the pavements which in some points are insufficiently wide to accommodate pedestrian flows”. In the meantime, “At the Cathedral, where the road section widens further, it is possible to create an area that acts as a churchyard and enhances the façade of the church”.

“The objective – concludes the minutes of the Council – is to promote strategic interventions functional to the optimization of the Molfetta coastline, with a view to improving the connection systems and tourist reception services;