The fifth Seminar on the Art of Maintenance, led by Maria Antonietta Mongiu and Diana Zuncheddu, entitled "Poetto, a Common Good," is scheduled for Monday, August 3rd at 7:00 PM.
On this occasion, Poetto will be discussed, but as a shared space between two cities: Cagliari and Quartu Sant'Elena. The two mayors, Graziano Milia and Massimo Zedda , will discuss the future landscape planning for the coastline, where the Colonia Dux - Ex Ospedale Marino - is located, to overcome the compartmentalization of a basin that has been united for millennia.
The two municipalities share one of Sardinia's most significant landscapes: a vast complex encompassing Poetto, Molentargius, Monte Sant'Elia, and San Bartolomeo, plus the Quartu lagoons. This, close to the island's highest human concentration, is a true paradise.
The unity of Poetto can be found in the 1790 cartography by Francesco Ari on the uncultivated lands belonging to the city and in the 1842 cartography by Gaetano Cima and Nicolò Barabino, on the salt reorganization of the area.
It was the Colonies of the Congregazione di Carità della Marina, first with Blessed Nicoli in 1917 and then with Blessed Tambelli, who started the colony with a small group of tents, eventually evolving into a sort of wooden village, with the financial support of the American Red Cross. The choice of the Cagliari beach, an alternative to Giorgino, was based on this experience, which inspired the events that led to the creation of the Colonia Dux.
Rather than a concept of healing, Fascism cultivated propaganda, and, not surprisingly, the Colonia of Ubaldo Badas and Enrico Pisano was in a state of complete disrepair. Meanwhile, Cagliari's Poetto beach was witnessing the emergence of bathing establishments and beach huts. Villas, initially with a bourgeois and exclusive profile, had already appeared in the 1930s.
Today, the challenge is to restore Poetto's unified structure, albeit under the control of different administrations, and to revitalize its landscape. The philological restoration of the Colonia Dux—formerly the Marine Hospital—with a vision and procedures that respect environmental and landscape principles, could be a positive development. The temporary concession of that state-owned property to a private individual could establish best practices for the dozens of concessions to private individuals (establishments, kiosks, sports and music venues) that exist in Poetto and, more generally, for the management of the entire coastline, which is an inalienable public resource.
The seminars—free admission and livestreamed on YouTube—will be held in Cagliari, at the historic headquarters of L'Unione Sarda, in the Online Video Room, at Viale Regina Elena 14. After the August 3rd meeting, the seminars will resume on the third Monday in September.
(Unioneonline)
