Now it is no longer even a shortcut, because daring to cross the Lapietra area, especially at the “controra” and in the evening, but now at all hours of the day, is really a bit scary; and not only for the episodes of aggression and violence, but precisely for the idea of walking in a degraded, dirty, abandoned place. How many expectations had there been among the citizens when in 2012 that park adjacent to Villa Bini was inaugurated under the administration of Pinuccio Tarantini, who on the occasion declared himself particularly happy with a result that had created a union between public and private allowing from a on the one hand to private individuals to build, on the other hand to offer citizens new and usable spaces. One wonders what goes wrong in the City, whether it is really the citizens’ inability to keep a place in good condition (a place without furniture, without supervision, without refreshment facilities or anything resembling a public park); or whether there really is indifference to the importance that these meeting places have in a community. The park is truly in the heart of the city, and while the part of the Lapietra area, where the oil mill of which we all remember the very high chimney which was somewhat of a characteristic of the profile of Trani trani stood, has demonstrated an example of urban redevelopment with a residential complex, a large supermarket, cafes and restaurants, the part that was supposed to be a model place of regeneration intended perhaps for young people, the elderly, mothers with children in wheelchairs, appears every day more and more not just a land of no one, but a place of degradation, abandonment, public squalor. Sin.
