BOLZANO. «Years pass but the bad taste and lack of respect on the part of the usual suspects unfortunately remains»: speaking is Noretta Galvani, 79 years old beautifully carried, a regular participant in the CAI trips to Laives and Bolzano.
This time there were dozens of toponyms deleted. «I left with four friends from Nova Ponente and we traveled towards Malga del Lupo, then Colle and finally Schneiderwiesen in the La Costa Seit area, in the municipality of Laives. A walk lasting five hours in total which was completely satisfactory for the route, less so for the welcome.”
Galvani still remembers the words of the former minister Fitto, who promised bilingual signs on the mountain paths way back in 2010. «I would really like the former minister Raffaele Fitto to take a stroll around here. He promised that everything would change within the year but – as my husband said ironically – he didn’t say which year. It would probably take another lifetime to really change things.”
But what exactly did Fitto say at the time? We went to track down the newspapers from June 2010 when a new controversy broke out over signs in the mountains. The former minister responded to a question presented by Giorgio Holzmann regarding signs in the mountains, also at the center of an investigation by the Bolzano Prosecutor’s Office. «The Province cannot accept contributions – Fitto wrote in the response document to Holzmann – initiatives that do not include the placement of bilingual signs, nor can it liquidate any grant for admitted contributions, if at the end of the works the presence of monolingual signs is found» .