#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Italy: Galatea FAI:[Catania]Historia non magistra vitae. Honor the dead, mock the living. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 For a few days it has been news and uproar that in Catania a Roman tomb has been

"discovered" in Via Antico Corso under a building of the Autonomous Casa Popolare
Institute. ---- The tomb was used as a deposit for braziers and so on until the
intervention, in 2010, of the carabinieri and the Superintendency of Cultural
Heritage. From that moment until today, October 2022, the tomb has remained there
in total neglect. ---- Now that the tomb is under the media spotlight, Catania
rediscovers its history again. ---- Love for one's past, however, is only a decoy
and in the case of Catania it has never been something to stand out. ---- The
Duke of Camastra, in the name of the reconstruction and restoration of the
prestige of the Etnean city after the earthquake of the Val di Noto at the end of
the seventeenth century, modified its urban planning, demolishing those few
medieval buildings of Greek-Roman origin that had survived to the earthquake and
highlighting the baroque style of the new reconstructed palaces of the patriciate
and clergy of Catania - hiding the "beggars" and their neighborhoods behind such
constructions.

Over the course of two centuries (eighteenth-twentieth century), Catania has
risen urbanistically: the building enlargement towards the north of the city; the
gutting of San Berillo and the birth / overbuilding of the districts of Nesima
Superiore and San Leone by the small group "Drago, Majorana, Rebecchini & Co" in
the 1950s-1960s; the buildings that sprang up like mushrooms in the neighborhoods
of Ognina and the so-called "satellite city" of Librino in the 1970s-1980s.
After this phase of overbuilding, removal of the superfluous and deportations,
the social and political changes in Catania in the first half of the 90s led the
local establishment to reconsider its architectural past.

The reason is quite simple: new market segments had to be opened.
Considering that at the economic level, construction had entered a phase of
stagnation (and subsequent crisis), the new urban planning laws prevented new
constructions and modifications of the Regulatory Plans, and in the territory it
was not possible to absorb the unoccupied force in other economic sectors (
agriculture in primis), the only market suitable to partially solve this problem
of unemployment and capitalist crisis was (and still is today, in 2022) that of
tourism.

With a minimum of professional preparation and European and national funds
towards the tourism sector, the latter has proved to be a real lifesaver in
territories such as Catania where large manufacturing industries are totally
absent and the cyclical crisis of the capital is felt heavily. at all levels.

Restoring buildings or tombs to "spin" the economy, advertising everything as
"Caio Sempronio was buried" or "a nobleman killed his wife in the Baroness of
Carini style", proves only one thing: we live in a society of death where life is
hated and, at the same time, one believes in another world that exists only in
the minds of idiots worshiping one or more deities.

https://gruppoanarchicogalatea.noblogs.org/post/2022/10/28/catania-historia-non-magistra-vitae-onora-i-morti-dileggia-i-vivi/
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