Prada, Bertelli buys Cala Forno. The risk is that it becomes inaccessible

Prada, Bertelli buys Cala Forno. It could make it inaccessible

Patrizio Bertelli, Miuccia’s husband Prada he made himself a big gift, buying – reads the Fatto Quotidiano – for 18.4 million the section of Cala Forno in the Maremma Park, in Tuscany (Grosseto): medieval and Medici towers, grand ducal customs, woods, farmhouses and access to the beach (which risks closure). Constraints prevent luxury resorts or helicopter slopes (so a Russian oligarch withdrew the offer). But it is a fact that those who own the estate can make access to the beach difficult (in defiance of the law). Which is of course state-owned, but can only be reached from the ground by a private road, which is now barred for example (with the excuse of Covid).

These days – continues the Fact – a movement of citizens is fighting and collecting signatures for the Ministry of Culture to exercise its right of pre-emption, and to buy at least the historic buildings for all. It is a concrete possibility to save that extraordinary common good, and there are also two others: diametrically opposed in the method, but in reality coinciding in the objectives and in the final result. The first. The state could expropriate Cala di Forno. Article 1 of Law 327 of 2001 establishes that expropriation is functional to the “execution of public works or of public utility”. The other possibility on the table is that the owner himself decides to donate that piece of land to the Maremma Park, to keep it public and accessible to all. But there is also the possibility that soon that place may become “almost” inaccessible.