Mediterranean Games, green light from the Services Conference for the project for the construction of the Nautical Centre. The municipal council of Taranto, chaired by the mayor Rinaldo Melucci, in recent days ratified the green light lit at the end of May by the Conference, i.e. the collegial body in which all public and private bodies, entitled to express their technical opinion, sit. on the project. Which, to be precise, is a Technical and Economic Feasibility Project (PTFE), developed by the regional agency Asset Puglia with an estimated amount of interventions of 14.6 million euros. The proposal, as is now known, will be implemented in the central part of the Torpedo Boat Station on the Mar Piccolo which, in recent days, was sold to the Municipality of Taranto by the Navy and the State Property Agency. In these areas, moreover, existing buildings will be redeveloped to create adequate spaces so that athletes can store their boats there between one race and another and between one training session and another. In the waters of the Mar Piccolo, even if the so-called competition fields will be built in the bodies of water near the Air Force Svam, in fact, various sports disciplines will take place including rowing, canoeing, sailing and kayaking.
And precisely inside the Torpedo Boat Station and therefore the (future) Nautical Center, yesterday afternoon, there was an inspection by the International Committee of the Mediterranean Games (Icmg) which, among others, was represented in the «three days » underway in Taranto by its general secretary, Iakovos Filippousis and by Stavri Bello, responsible for the structure’s sporting activities. But not only at the “Torpedo Boat”, of course. The delegation, having received greetings from commissioner Massimo Ferrarese, was accompanied by the general director of the local organizing committee, Carlo Molfetta, on a sort of operational tour of various sports facilities among those included in the master plan of the 2026 Games. In addition to carrying out an inspection in the areas where the Nautical Center will be built, again in Taranto, the delegation then physically moved to the «PalaMazzola». And in doing so, the comparisons on the field (it must be said) then continued in the sports halls of Martina Franca, Massafra, Fasano. And today, in reality, the inspections will continue, visiting for example (among other structures) the municipal sports hall of Montemesola.
The objective of these itinerant technical meetings is to allow the International Committee and, in particular, the representatives of the various sports federations to verify whether the structures identified and included in the master plan are perfectly in line with the standards foreseen for the different disciplines (height ceilings, lighting quality and more). To be even clearer, evidently, this is the right time to make observations or doubts, so that we can act given that the construction sites have not yet been opened. Generally speaking, work on sports facilities should begin between autumn and, at the latest, January 2025. Then, from that moment, the race against time will begin. Declared objective: 21 August 2026.
