Come tutte le città, cittadine, paesi, borghi e villaggi, anche la città della Spezia ha il suo bravo
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"regularly" is a real understatement, because there is a regular
very little, if other cities in the market also plays a function of tourist attraction (Porta Portese Market Livorno, etc..) Tourists passing from La Spezia in fateful Friday market is strongly recommended to visit a large group of reasons.
First the quality of goods displayed , which is gradually and qualitatively timed to coincide with the disappearance of street vendors' historical , replaced almost entirely by immigrants of various nationalities, far from selling products of their land thus creating an Exhibition " ethnic " which would at least original, shall conform to propose articles of doubtful derivation, (almost all Eastern), resulting in further discredit the overall quality.
Not to mention the " location " choice years ago by an enlightened local authority: Garibaldi Avenue, a central artery of La Spezia (not too large) and densely populated, the daily transit bus to Portovenere and core of the city traffic.
Now: on Thursday 'evening, in all seasons and in all weather, the poor inhabitants of this unfortunate artery must abandon their cars in the area reserved to seek his fortune (car park) where they find (and remember that we are in the city center!), and the few times that have dared to forget, or bedridden with influenza or illness and no relatives to replace them, they left the car in the parking lot reserved for them, then had to withdraw in the courtyard of the municipal police upon payment of a fine salty.
Every Friday morning then, at 05 o'clock, they all have the alarm programmed , kindly provided by the din dell'allestimento the banks of the itinerant mixed clacsons vans.
The avenue, as we said, is not an avenue: Well, the city administration has
had the good idea to assign spaces to vendors in double line (one before the other ) on both pavement and vans lined up along the two lanes of the avenue.
The result is a narrow carriageway (but always cluttered with badly parked vans), gates and shops practically lungoviale inaccessible (or accessible bypassing banquets and various household goods), and space for step Visitors to about one meter.
course, this passage of a meter wide contend even if the mothers with strollers (height crowd!), Customers with bags or parcels and bulky. . . " sharpers " that claim to pass through this narrow path with a bicycle and even swear to the clogging!
Also, perhaps unique case in Italy, instead of up to 14 as everywhere, the Spice Market lasts up to 20 in the evening and beyond, with the result of
impede parking and the ' access gates and the shops of eligible for the whole day, well beyond the normal time to return from work!
must be said that the residents of Via Garibaldi all enjoying good health and that civil defense and emergency vehicles have never had to intervene in
some buildings during any Friday, or we would have witnessed the blatant ( and dangerous!) denial of all safety and safeguard the health authorities there propinano long as mandatory for any public event!
I emergency vehicles would not pass completely and, in the unfortunate event evacuation of a building or transport the wounded, the whole thing could be done only after the dismantling of some banks!
The health of the residents will still be put to the test also and especially during the winter when
, for obvious reasons of darkness, each operated since the early afternoon walking the combustion engine of its own generator
of electricity, creating its own little cloud of exhaust smoke which, together with all other clouds, form a dense pall of smog that goes to the upper floors of buildings, making the air breathable and thus preventing the open windows.
Not to mention the inconvenience to tourists (many in the summer) that displaced by the change in traffic, looking anxiously the new bus route to Portovenere often with poor results.
All this for years and years, ignore them completely, for example, the continuation of Garibaldi Avenue (west side), it becomes Fieschi Avenue (also well served by public transport), wide and busy boulevard along on both sides by parking lots, buildings of the Navy and the municipal stadium, therefore without buildings, shops and activities, where the location of the weekly market would enjoy more space and certainly not interfere with the life of commercial and residential center.
Suffice hence a shift of a few hundred meters away to redevelop an area, as it would certainly be easier to identify other areas suitable for the performance of the market, but obviously " so willed there where is power what you want" . . . . . and who knows if "the news strip " will be able to change things!
