The structures mentioned are not so much an example of “archeology” how much of lived life and modeling of the landscape by man, in a landscape context considered by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, probably because of that continuum of nature and anthropogenic activities it represents. It would be a real loss if this sign of work were destroyed, which characterizes the Sicilian archipelago and tells a piece of economic and social history.
Federculture therefore joins the appeal because the quarries and its “stone treasures”, as Stella defines them, are preserved and become part of that dense but little known network of business museums spread across our territory and which constitutes an essential element of identity.
That of Lipari should indeed be an example to be extended to many similar cases of activities that have fallen into disuse due to the advent of new technologies and new markets, but which were the premises and constituted a fundamental factor in the design of the territory and the social structure of entire areas.
Moreover, a protection intervention would be perfectly coherent with the Pnrr lines, where it provides for the enhancement of “places of identity”.
It is also necessary to insist on the urgency of such an intervention, because the appeal arrives right on the border between a desirable recovery and a definitive destruction: as often happens, time is a determining variable in this type of events.
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