Il Tirreno Giornale (PISA, Italia, Friday 1 June 2001)
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Confesercenti First in Line Problems after Cancellation of the Concert in Piazza dei Miracoli |
 The Vendor Stalls are at the Center of the Dilemma (Foto Punto Reflex) |
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by Daniele Benvenuti PISA. The problems solved by the cancellation of entertainment for the Festival of the Republic in Piazza dei Miracoli, first, and the shift to San Rossore of the concert by Andrea Bocelli under the Tower, second, have brought home with great force the matter of the Ronchey decree. A decree that, to Pisa, had already been used to remove vendor stalls from in front of the Cathedral. The sequestration had instigated recourses to the Tar by some of the operators; but the Ronchey decree had also been used to shift the location of the "Maltreated" that finished quite a stonesthrow from the Tower. Now the two last facts, certainly resounding for their relapse on the image for the city, the judgments of the decree and its many implications are being reviewed. The Confesercenti, for a long time the first line of defense for the vendors at the Cathedral against too aggesive an application of the decree, intervenes with its provincial secretary Aldo Lorenzi . "How much cost and how long will the Ronchey Decree continue to burden our city?" wonders Lorenzi. It is a question that we set when that ministerial provision was delivered to the principal recipients, that is those "sellers" who, with their wares, "defaced" the image of the plaza. The same question that we set seven years ago, today is set by the whole city. The Ronchey decree has prevented the carrying out of a grand initiative requested by President Ciampi to celebrate June 2. The Ronchey decree to prevent risks, almost surely, also will prevent the carrying out of another important appointment of international importance, the Bocelli concert, organized as a benefit. Important events that, with the reopening of the Tower, would promote the image of the city to the international level and would well accompany the programs of economic and social development being promoted by our administration. We have always believed that our great and precious patrimony of art and culture must be very carefully protected as well as made known and visited, by the greatest number of people, with precise rules of guardianship and respect. "Self conscious of being directly involved, it is with a great sense of responsibility that we intervene on the matter, with the awareness of the difficulty, perhaps also of the embarrassment, that involves all the interested parties. Always with a great sense of responsibility", concludes Aldo Lorenzi, "we continue to find it necessary for a general revision of the decree through a serious and calm consideration that involves all the interested parties, in a cooperative manner, in the interest of the city, and in a manner able to stimulate and develop useful proposals for the new Parliament". Meanwhile, for the concert of Bocelli for next 17 June, the San Rossore outcome seems the probable one. The only problem is the capacity. San Rossore has hosted a concert for the singer Lajatico in 1997 with a crowd of almost 5 thousand people. A very distant number, however, from the 10-12 thousand that envoys estimate for the concert of San Ranieri. To further complicate things during that time, the "Pisa City of Horses" demonstration is also held at San Rossore. There would then be the Garibaldi Arena as an extreme solution - one not pleasant to the singer however. In short, it would seem that Pisa is not able to entertain a big musical event like the Bocelli concert. Indeed, we hope not and that a solution can be created, perhaps using simple good sense. Translated by Gary Feuerstein, 2 June 2001, from the Il Tirreno article Building Homepage
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