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Tree-lined avenue and square

Bordighera: the winning project of the Municipality’s ideas competition has been selected

A large tree-lined avenue that leads to a harmonic square, benches and fountains set on the path: here is the new pedestrian area that will embrace, all economic coverage permitting, the whole center of Bordighera. From Piazza Eroi della Libertà to Corso Italia, sliding between palm trees, flowers and tall trees. All the cars away, of course. With different accesses to the driveways (about eighty, in Corso Italia only) to make the heart of the city more livable.

What is most striking in the winning project of the ideas competition launched by the Municipality to change the face of Bordighera (and prepared by the professional team “Rtp” composed of Pietra Alborno, Federica Berlanda, Marco Calvi, Matteo Ercole, Cinzia Loiacono, Davide Marcenaro and Arianna Tomatis) is the absolute desire to preserve the existing as much as possible, improving it and making it more functional. No environmental impact, no distortion of the existing: indeed. The games of the fountains, the large space, specially left for children and the elderly throughout the central area, especially in Piazza Eroi della Libertà, recall the past of Bordighera most loved by citizens, the “conservative” one. And they fit perfectly into the general context. «It has solved the connection between the station square and the waterfront both physically and perceptually. Smart solution for Corso Italia with the use of denser greenery at private gardens and more permeable at facades. Good flexibility for the development of the subsequent executive phases “. So the commission chaired by the architect Roberto Ravera, head of the technical office, by the regional president Fai Roberta Cento Croce, and by experts appointed by the Order of architects, also from outside the Province, motivated his choice of the winning proposal, decreed the assignment to the “Rtp” team of the preliminary project to implement the intervention. A 700 thousand euro work to create a single socialization and aggregation center. After all, what the Municipality asked for. «The commission worked quickly – congratulates Margherita Mariella, city councilor for urban planning – Now it’s up to the administration to find the necessary funds. We do not preclude any way: from the request derogating from the stability pact, which will be put forward as soon as possible, from the budget commissioner Silvano Maccario to the Region, to the submission of requests to participate in European calls. The pedestrian zone must be built ». Philosophy that obviously sees the mayor Giacomo Pallanca agree, ready to carry out the work in a short time.