L’AQUILA – A photo on Facebook reveals the completion of the redevelopment work on Piazza Chiarino, which began in October last year.
Approximately 700 thousand euros, the cost of the intervention, resources pertaining to the Complementary Fund to the Pnrr for the areas hit by the 2009 earthquake and central Italy.
New pavement, new street furniture and new lighting. As already happened for Piazza Regina Margherita and Piazza Duomo, the redevelopment works have generated contrasting opinions on the web on the Facebook group ‘L’Aquila e dintorni prima e dopo’ (L’Aquila and surroundings before and after) – photo by Rita Montagliani.
The same Frank Nerilligroup administrator, comments:
In the meantime, if we had to put benches, it would have been essential to put them with backrests. A seat is especially comfortable for someone who is no longer a kid! By the way, those sharp edges of the boxes, positioned at children’s eye level, seem absurd to me! […] Unfortunately it is the total lack of good taste. The city is one thing, another is another!
| PRO | AGAINST |
| “Any furniture is in accordance with the Superintendency of Fine Arts” | “They purposely left space for the tables of the premises. The flower boxes and the pseudo benches will soon come to a bad end. Ditto the covering. There is no respect or education, so…” |
| “Personally, I don’t mind the square as it was built, but the only negative note is those horrible metal “boxes” which are also dangerous for adults and children, and then they dug more than 1 m deep and couldn’t they make small flower beds where they could put a few trees?” | “This is an exemplary way to ruin a square that without greenery is rather sad. But this stunted and approximate greenery is desolate and the benches seem patched up. Those who believe that this arrangement is a prelude to another magnificent one are not entirely wrong given the approximation of the whole.” |
| “…nice pavement…but parking??? Without parking the residents will never return to live in the city. I don’t know if the “politicians” are really interested in re-inhabiting the center…” | “Another place where you can’t make music… Towards 2026” |
| “As far as I can remember there have never been seats, benches and trees. Now there are seats and they are no good because there is no backrest, edges and counter edges, children who can get hurt, the child gets hurt regardless. Then in this square I have never seen families and elderly people except during the antique market. Maybe advise those kids who will take possession of it not to deface it as they already did.” | “We had squares that were little gems, very intimate, with trees and greenery, now they are arid and without a soul.” |
| “At least the pavement is a little darker than Piazza Regina Margherita, which has become a pigsty.” | “Never a suitable design idea, in a medieval city a pseudo-modernist style of benches, corten steel flower boxes from serial stockists on offer”. |
| “Trees with flowerbeds, 2 or 3 were enough.” | |
| “Respect for nature is just talk, now we’ll go out with Chinese umbrellas.” | |
| “More parking spaces removed from the center, since the terminal is dangerous, the area of the municipal villa as well, the castle as well, where should you park to be able to take a walk in the center? Excellent pavement, nice flat but usable only for all the various places to put tables outside. In practice as if it were a seafront but located in various small squares covered in cement and stone and without a bit of greenery… the beginning of the end…”. | |
| “Trees, trees, not just plants!! I mean, plants in flowerbeds are fine but we need trees, for shade, to mitigate temperatures, for the environment!! It’s useless to boast about having planted 1600 new plants if we don’t replace the trees that have been cut down first. Roses and bushes are beautiful but a tree is life.” | |
| “This time too, work was carried out without having held a referendum.” |
