(VIDEO) Crotone – From an abandoned place to a plant for new glories ~ CrotoneOk.it

Crotone – Work starts today to demolish the former Coni swimming pool and return it to the citizens, removing the first interferences, with the perimeter of the construction site. The works will not cause damage to the neighboring beach and commercial establishments, adopting various measures. The delivery of the start-up works took place this morning in the area that will host the construction site, on the Cristoforo Colombo seafront.

In fact, the first works are starting today to build an “open-air lantern”, with a glass structure in order to combine the 33 meter swimming pool with the naturalistic landscape.

To allow these works, the small boat with the sails will be demolished: while, only for the duration of the works, until their completion, the statue of Rino Gaetano will be moved to Piazza della Resistenza. Under the municipal body building, so to speak. When the swimming pool is delivered, and therefore the works are all finished, the bronze statue will be relocated to the “Rino Gaetano” square, where it has always been.

Present at the presentation of the works were the mayor Voce, the councilor for Complex Programs and Sports Facilities Luca Bossi, the sector manager Clara Caroli and the working group of the institution and the company that will carry out the redevelopment works.

A work that will not weigh a single euro on the budget of the organization and on the citizens, whose construction and design costs are financed respectively by CIS Calabria for an amount of 6.2 million euros from the Italia City Branding call for the drafting of the executive project. Model of good administration.

The structure will have an architectural value and in harmony with the pre-existing urban context, designed for use of the swimming pool throughout the year, depending on the climatic conditions, openable and in direct relationship with the sea thanks to complete transparency from the pedestrian side.

It will be a sports structure suitable for hosting water polo competitions (33m long) and with a space between the sea and the swimming pool that is transformed into a square where recreational activities can be carried out.

“The people of Crotone will be able to experience the “birth” of this structure which has entered the hearts of the people day by day. A structure that fits fully with the redevelopment works of the entire port area that the System Authority is carrying out and which goes from the Porto Vecchio to the former Sensi area and which on the other hand integrates with the redevelopment works of the seafront which we will carry out with PNRR funds” said the mayor Voice.

“An important day for an identity structure, a programmatic object of attention of the municipal administration since its establishment, at zero cost for citizens, and which sets a milestone for the realization of the work. Months and months of work behind the scenes to achieve today’s result and for this I can only thank the manager Caroli and the entire group coordinated by her, and the other members of the working group, including Dr. Zampaglione. It is a further starting point, from today we look at the construction site and the subsequent phases” declared the Councilor Bossi.