Tomorrow, Thursday 23 May will be a historic day for Asti which is preparing to receive the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella and it is hoped that the weather forecast will also be favourable, even if rain is currently forecast.
The security machine, tested with visits from Pope Francis and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is ready even though officials from the Quirinale arrived in the city this morning and will participate in the Order and Security Committee today at 4pm. For days we have seen work to clear the manholes for the passage of the president who will go to the Alfieri Theater for the conference on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the death of Giovanni Goria. Agents, bomb squads, sharpshooters, but also anti-sabotage teams, are in the city.
Bus variations
Buses on lines 2, 4 and 7, from 10.30 to 12.30, there will be no transit in Corso Dante, in the stretch between Largo Martiri della Liberazione and Corso Alfieri, in Corso Alfieri and in Piazza Alfieri.
They will travel along the temporary route of Via Micca, Corso Volta, Via Monte Rainero, Via Calosso and Corso G. Ferraris. The temporary stops in via Micca (lines 4 and 7), in corso G. Ferraris (lines 2, 4, 7) and in via Monte Rainero (line 2) will be activated.
The prefect of Asti, Claudio Ventrice who, despite having coordinated the two previous major visits, is excited and says he is convinced that the visit will be a success. “Today we will check the entire process to evaluate the reclamation and layout of the theatre, there will be inspections. This is a beautiful and joyful visit, the President is much loved. The measures for a Head of State are mandatory and everything is going well.”
A painting donated by Asti
The Prefect also had the idea of giving the President a portrait of himself and commissioned it from his friend and painter from Asti Filippo Pinsoglio. A very similar portrait which has the typical colored background of Pinsoglio, former Master of the Palio, which contains all the Asti character: the towers and Vittorio Alfieri. “Just a thought – Ventrice shields – but done with the heart. We really hope to be able to deliver it personally to the President, even if the protocol does not provide for it to be delivered briefly manually, unfortunately he will not stop for lunch, but we are confident that we will also succeed with the letter and the explanation. An original way to remember Asti”.
The “mystery” of Mattarella’s intervention at Alfieri remains, it seems he will decide at the moment, to remember Giovanni Goria, the youngest Prime Minister, of which Mattarella was Minister for Relations with Parliament.
Mattarella with Giovanni Goria (Foundation archive photo)
