New president at the Lions Club Lucca Le Mura: the musician Federico Favali takes the place of the former mayor of Lucca Pietro Fazzi who, in addition to leaving the position, asked for and obtained the transfer to the Lions Club Antiche Valli Lucchesi.
During the evening of the bell ringing, the Lions Club Lucca le Mura retraced the fundamental stages of the 2023-2024 season (collected in Pocket Yearbook distributed to those present) and was also able to share the latest, relevant, results. It was Councilor Moreno Bruni, in the presence of Mayor Mario Pardini, who announced that the Municipality had accepted the request, which arose during the September 2023 conference dedicated to The figure and work of Romano Silvato dedicate a road to the memory of the scholar. As the councilor explained, the toponymy commission has in fact approved the dedication to Romano Silva the small pine park located in San Marco, adjacent to via Isa Belli Barsalithe art historian, student of Giulio Carlo Argan and author of important publications on the city and the villas in the area.
Furthermore, the project for the construction of a plaque in memory of Michele Puccini Senior, il dad of Giacomo, as he himself loved to write. The initiative was promoted by the Lions Club Lucca le Mura and immediately received the patronage of the Municipality of Lucca and, later, also that of the Committee for the centenary celebrations. The Club thus wanted to seize the intersection between the hundred years since the death of Giacomo Puccini and the one hundred and sixty years since that of his father, Michele.
The project for the installation of the plaque was curated by the architect Leonardo Casini and has already received – last June 5th – the approval of the Superintendent Dr. Angela Acordon and is being examined by the landscape commission after having been authorised by all the condominium owners San Lorenzo Court Palace. Once these steps have been completed, it will be possible to install the plaque in the space provided on the façade of Via di Poggio, thus satisfying, at least in part, a wish of the family as witnessed by the letters between Giacomo Puccini and his sisters. Michele Puccini Senior was a composer and teacher, as well as director of the conservatory, at the time named after Giovanni Pacini.
The passing of the bell concluded both the evening and a social year full of initiatives and events.
The outgoing president Pietro Fazzi wanted to underline the relationship of friendly collaboration throughout the year with the professor maestro Federico Favali, a collaboration particularly important also for the continuation and improvement of the procedures not yet concluded.
President Fazzi expressed his best wishes to the new president for the 2024-2025 season and informed those present of his transfer to the Lions Club Antiche Valli Lucchesi starting from July 1st.
In thanking his outgoing colleague, President Favali added “to all the members for the trust they have shown in me. I have the motto of the Ipdg Giuseppe Guerra well in my mind Together in Harmony. I, on the other hand, am a professor of harmony. Let’s move forward in harmony in the service of our community”.
