by Fabio Carosi
Expo 2030: for Rome it will be an opportunity to take flight propelled by Calatrava’s sails and return to being great. At what price? That of power that since 1987 has regulated the relations between the University of Rome and the heir of the University of Tor Vergata and the temporary association of companies headed by the Vianini of Cavalier Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone. And even before the eventual victory of Rome, there are already those who have won, and it is him.
Expo 2030 or not, the 79-year-old Roman entrepreneur at the head of one of the largest private industrial groups in Italy, after 5 years of Giunta Raggi has taken his revenge. The great events, that is the great works of the city, will have his imprinting if they take place. This will be the case in the city in the city of Tor Vergata which in 2000 hosted the World Youth Day and in 2030 it will be the theater of the Rome Exhibition. Obviously, if Rome wins the international competition in October 2023, when the Bureau will choose the right country and city for the Exposition.
Berdini’s prophecy: “The Roma stadium? Let’s do it in Tor Vergata”
The good Paolo Berdini, councilor of the first hour in the various Giunte Raggi, had tried to warn the first female mayor of Rome about the strategic opportunity to place the New Stadium of Rome in Tor Vergata, but the Raggi had preferred to focus on the absurd hypothesis of Tor di Valle, partly because he wanted to demonstrate autonomy, a lot to spite the “strong powers”. And Caltagirone, silent as always, appeared at the window of the building in via Aldovrandi, waiting for the project of the Parnasi “palazzinaro” to collapse first and then the mayor and the Giunta.
The Vela di Calatrava symbol of the unfinished city
Now that Rome has returned to “normality”, the Expo hypothesis arrives and, by chance, it is formalized in the Dubai tour-trip that the only suitable area of Rome is that of Tor Vergata. Still there, between the Casilina and the Rome-Naples, next to the Metro C built with the Caltagirone spoon which had already restored the ridiculous Rome-Pantano railway several times and which with a foresight worthy of a prophet had understood that the old agreement with the University signed in the last century would have guaranteed him forever the possibility of building the esplanade dominated for years by Calatrava’s sail, symbol of the unfinished city and the bonfire of public money. Born in the Veltronian era, for the 5 Stars the Vela was the symbol to be destroyed, so much so that the councilor of the time, Daniele Frongia, also calculated how much money was needed to demolish it, estimating the expenditure for over 10 million euros. eliminate the skeleton of the work begun in 2007 and never completed at the “price of” 660 million euros “.
In Rome the wind has changed: happy birthday
Now that the wind has changed and it is that of the restoration, Tor Vergata is back in vogue: Metro C and Metro A will join together giving life to a tangle of subways, the Vela will resume its wind and if Rome will rightly take its Expo in 2030 the University of Tor Vergata will have completed the urban reconstruction of a quadrant of the city. Color note: on Wednesday 2 March Cavalier Caltagirone turned 79, on Thursday 3 Mayor Gualtieri formalized the rebirth of Tor Vergata but we already knew from the day before.
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