THE PORTA NUOVA SEA

In the next years, Porta Nuova, one of Turin railway stations, will loose its utility due to the new underground train line and will remain out of the train paths because new other stations will born. This way, Porta Nuova stop, with its area of 200.000 square meters occupyed by rails is waiting for new possible uses. According to the official projects the station will be transformed in a shopping center and residential buildings will be built in the actual rails area. In 2006 Maurizio Zucca, a local architect, proposed to use the huge area of Porta Nuova bringing some sea in Turin with a water basin suitable for swimming instead of the abandoned rails and transforming the valuable building of Porta Nuova in a spa, in order to offer hot baths during the long winters. In last years the project was approved by the thousands of Turin inhabitants convened in a support commitee, quite important for all local and national newspapers (and also some international ones), together with radio and publishing houses. It’s a shame that the only ones who are ignoring all this are pubblic administrators, who are not answering to the open letters and are acting as if nothing was happening, making a fool of themselves.

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