Latin city of the eternal 20th century, the century that never passes

We are condemned to the eternal twentieth century. Latina is destined never to reach the second millennium.

In 1994 the mayor of Latina, Ajmone Finestra, brought Latina Città del Novecento to the Bit of Milan, following the action of Nando Cappelletti and Maurizio Guercio. It seemed cool… It was the beginning of the nightmare. I was critical of Nando and Maurizio: but the twentieth century is already in the Cesarini area I objected. But that’s how it went.

However, back then we were still in the 1900s, now?

We are in 2024, a quarter of a century beyond that time in the 1900s but here in Latina?

We present ourselves as the capital of Italian culture feeling like we are from the 20th century, we make music on Saturday evening at the Ciambellotti museum of the 20th century with music from the 20th century, we present the architecture festival on? Twentieth century. Protection of new cities of the twentieth century, exhibition on the railway train of the twentieth century.

A blocked calendar, we are destined to eternally relive what for others is the short century as defined by Eric J. Hobsbawm, but for us the eternal century.

It doesn’t pass, it doesn’t want to pass, it crushes us. As if Rome were eternally and solely baroque, as if the Arno in Florence were a lake. Eternal twentieth century, redundant twentieth century. The century of totalitarian tragedies, of two destructive wars, of the atomic bomb, of concentration camps.

A century to which we should say goodbye, however, we here relive it every day.

Latin city of the twentieth century that does not want to pass.