CROTONE The restriction announced last February by the Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape becomes operational. Stefania Argenti. The restriction approved by the Ministry of Culture will concern the entire central area of Crotone: from Piazza Della Resistenza to Piazza Duomo. Piazza Duomo, Via Mons. Pietro Raimondi, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Via Silvio Messinetti, Piazza Pitagora, Via Vittorio Veneto and traverse and Piazza della Resistenza are placed under protection. A vast area to which the stamp of “cultural interest”. They are the places of the walk in the center. From this moment on, the municipal administration will therefore not be able to carry out even minimal interventions without having obtained the prior consent of the Superintendence which, thanks to the constraint, acquired the exclusive title of decision. Even the traders and inhabitants of the areas placed under restriction, for any type of structural intervention including shop windows, sunshades, signs and colors to be used for the facades, will have to ask for the approval of the superintendence.
The “case” of via Venezia
The announcement of having prepared the bond order was made on February 5th. Previously, a tug of war had taken place between the municipal administration, led by Vincenzo Voce and the superintendent Argenti. The Municipality had also lost the appeal presented to the Regional Administrative Court of Calabria in which it had requested the annulment of the ordinance issued by Argenti on 15 December 2023. With this ordinance the superintendent had blocked the works which included the construction of a planter and the replacement of the “ancient paving blocks” in via Venezia, in the stretch where this street leads onto Corso Vittorio Veneto and Piazza della Resistenza (where the town hall is located). At the time, the Municipality had carried out the urban furnishing project in Via Venezia in view of the Rai 1 show “The Year to Come”, which was held in Piazza Pitagora. The interventions in via Venezia had been carried out without obtaining the opinion of the Superintendency. A circumstance disputed by Argenti. The ordinance required blocking activities and restoring logos. The superintendent also reported the matter to the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Crotone. The work was stopped, but the sites have not yet been restored. Even today, in fact, the planter is where it was placed last December and the same goes for the cobblestones. Today it appears to passers-by as unfinished.
The planned works
The Municipality, after the TAR ruling, also attempted to open a dialogue with the superintendent, in the hope of recovering the relationship, but Argenti continued on his own path obtaining the green light for the ordinance which places an area under protection restrictions that will be, in part, affected by the interventions of “Antica Kroton” and beyond. The area placed under protection, in fact, also includes Piazza Pitagora where the administration would like to carry out a redevelopment project. More than two million euros have already been allocated to this intervention from the funds (16.5 million euros) obtained from the transaction with Eni. This complicates the administrative life of the Voce executive at least as regards the interventions to be carried out in this important part of the city. ([email protected])
