Hoping not to hurt anybody, I would like to bring this article, read this morning in the Corriere della Sera Online. I often read articles Sergio Rizzo and Gian Antonio Stella, which I find more detailed and accurate in reporting how things are going in our country. This article, however, particularly struck me, perhaps in relation to the recent vote of no confidence to our Minister of Culture following the collapse occurred at Pompeii.
Link: http://www.corriere.it/cronache/11_febbraio_11/stella-italia-distrugge-bellezza-turismo-rizzo_8abd5e3c-35a6-11e0-9a90-00144f486ba6.shtml
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In "Vandals" Rizzo and Stella tells how and why Italy is destroying her only asset: the art
We have no oil, us. We do not have gas, we do not have gold, we do not have diamonds, we do not have the rare earths, we do not have the endless stretches of wheat fields of Canada or pastures of the pampas of Argentina. We have a single, large, even undeserved wealth: the beauty of our landscapes, the beauty of our archaeological sites, the beauty of our medieval villages, the beauty of our noble residences, the beauty of our museums, the beauty of our cities' art.
And there rejoice. There pride forever. Up to do even part of the 'Ganassa "(" We have 40% of planetary masterpieces! "," No, 50%! "," No, 60%! ") Who played the biggest gun. Primacy, which, as far as I know, it is the only 'red' is pleasing to Knight, the Minister of Tourism Michela Vittoria Brambilla. What web portal in China with the logo 'Minister of Tourism has launched an appeal to the people of the Middle Empire and argues not only that "the great Italian fashion brands are' and 'all the fans of the world follow the Serie A Italian ", but also that Italy" has the 70% of world cultural heritage. " Boom! And Machu Picchu, temples Angkor, pyramids, Hagia Sophia and Topkapi in Istanbul, the Prado Museum, St. Petersburg, the Tower of London, the citadel of Athens, the castles of the Loire Valley, Granada, the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Louvre, the Thai Sukothai, the Taj Mahal, the Kremlin, the terracotta army of Xi'an, Petra, Sana'a and the rest of the planet? We divide the leftovers.
interview by Marcello di Falco to the Minister of Tourism Egidio Ariosto the Journal reminds us that in May 1979 'Italy was "the second Country in the world for tourist facilities, the first for international attendance, the first for tourism revenue, the first for net foreign exchange. " Three decades later we slipped to fifth place. And the ranking for the "competitiveness" tour, which takes into account many things I recall, discourage or irritate visitors (for example, the news did not help on "a spaghetti lobster: 366 €" The Cliff restaurant to Mary Magdalene), we see even the twenty-eighth place.
Sure, it's true that we are fortunate to have inherited from our grandparents more UNESCO sites of all. We have 45 against 42 in Spain 40 China 35 France, 33 Germany, 28 UK, 21 U.S.. But this is an aggravating circumstance that nailing our leaders, past and present, of their responsibility. Their failure. Explain it a dossier in December 2010 PWC (Pricewaterhouse Coopers, the largest testing company in the world for volume of business) that the exploitation of our tourist sites UNESCO is much lower than the others. Out of every 100 Italy, China is at 270, France 190, Germany at 184, the United Kingdom to 180, Brazil and Spain 130. Humiliating.
is suicidal. We do not have many other cards to play. They tell us the data from the International Monetary Fund and the comparison with the new great powers. From 1994 to today, in what for us was the Second Republic, while our GDP grew by 1.9 times in local currency, including inflation, the Brazilian was multiplied by 3.6 times, 4.9 times for the Indian The Chinese even 11.5 times (...).
In late January of 2011 he wrote Giampaolo Visetti La Repubblica that "Chinese tourists will fuel the growth of long-haul travel and by 2015 will become the absolute master of package tours and luxury shopping in Europe. The annual report of the Chinese tourism expected this year will spend the holidays abroad 57 million Chinese (...) and the national tourism plan estimated that by 2015 will go abroad between 100 and 130 million people, coming to spend over 110 billion euro "(...).
bad I do not understand us. Italy, in the eyes Beijing, is a case in itself incomprehensible. Ten years ago it was a favorite of the pioneers of travel in Europe. The Chinese love the myth of the 'lifestyle', the Mediterranean climate, the past imperial power and culture, fashion and luxury, nature, the culinary diversity that enhances the quality of wines. "You were the starting point," said Zhu Shanzhong, deputy head of China National Tourism Office "for a European tour. Then we have a little bit neglected. " To the point that "the tourism promotion of Italy in China is lower than that of the Netherlands." Madness.
But to understand the merits of the Just take a ride on the travel portal opened by the Italian government in China, www.yidalinihao.com. It cost a fortune and put up with a sloppy suicide cries. For starters, the four great cover photo that shows a summary of Italy Ferrari, a Ducati motorcycle, a piece of Parmesan cheese and Parma ham. In the middle: Bologna. With lots of arrows on a map reminiscent of its centrality in Rome, Milan, Venice and Florence. Oh: they have the wrong capital? No, as discovered by the daily, it's just a copy-paste from the Chinese website of the Emilia-Romagna aimiliyaluomaniehuanyingni.com (...).
But even more impressive are the videos that illustrate our twenty regions. Where not only is there a text in Chinese (perhaps it was too expensive: the millions of euro were over ...) but each movie is accompanied by background music. Click the Veneto? Here is the Rialto Bridge, the gondolas, the Grand Canal, masks, makers of Burano ... And the music? It will Antonio Baldassarre Galuppi and Vivaldi, Tomaso Albinoni and Benedetto Marcello, Pier Francesco Cavalli and Giuseppe Tartini? With so many great Venetian composers of the past ... Smear: Carmen Georges Bizet's French magazine from the Russian Alfred Schnittke! The music of Umbria? Polish Fryderyk Chopin. That of Campania? Norway's Edvard Grieg. That of Lazio? Austria's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. That Abruzzo? English Edward Elgar. And so on: everything but all the videos that Italy should make known to the Chinese, except for that of Basilicata, where the soundtrack is of the Tuscan Luigi Boccherini, are accompanied by hints of foreign musicians. Beloved, but foreign (...).
The trouble is that for a long time imagine that all of us to you. That foreigners, to eat well, drink well, sleep well, make good bathroom and see the beautiful city, they have no choice but to come here, from us. Who kindly agreed to pocket their money, as much as possible, giving them some Spizzico sweet Italian living. Worse, we are convinced that these are our treasures there, in the safe. Destined to shine for eternity without any need for protection. Care. Love. Not so (...).
explains a study by European cement producers in 2004 that Austria has produced 4 million tons of cement, Benelux 11, Britain 12, France 9:30 p.m., Germany 33 and a half, Scandinavia and less than 36 us 46.05, beaten only a whisker from Spain. Only Spain has 90.6 inhabitants per square kilometer, 199.3 us: more than double. In short, the territory we have already consumed too (...).
few months before his death, in response to a reader who asked him to help save the Ligurian coast, the Corriere Indro Montanelli cursed our country so that had loved. And he wrote that the bulldozers are still there to "give vent to the one true vocation of our people to charlatans who do not see beyond their own nose: self-destruction" (...).
Let some flash to the waste. The galleries of Tate Britain have 'turnover' in the last fiscal year of € 76.2 million, slightly less than the 82 million went into the coffers with tickets to all the Italian state museums and archaeological sites combined. The merchandising has made in 2009 at the Metropolitan Museum of almost € 43 million, well over similar collections of all museums and archaeological sites of the peninsula, still at 39.7. Restaurant, auditorium and parking lot of the same museum in New York have produced revenues of EUR 19.7 million, three more of all revenue of Pompeii, our archaeological gem. Where 'additional services' amounted to 46 cents per visitor: one-eighth that in the Uffizi, one-fifteenth that the Tate, a twenty-seventh that at the Metropolitan, one-fortieth that at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art was a disaster. To say nothing of how we guard our wealth (...).
Says Nations Office United for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Vienna that the works of art stolen is the third business world of crime after drug trafficking and arms. Yet among the 69,000 inmates in Italian prisons in early 2011 was not even a cell to have dug an Etruscan tomb, stealing a painting or dealt with the sale of an antique vase in a foreign receiver. If you searched for "attempted theft of a cow," as happened to Albanian Florian Placu, you can stay six months in San Vittore. If you're looking to sell abroad, the statue of Caligula not go to prison. If we are certain judges, you can even hold your goods.
It happened to Angela Smith, a sub Lazio denounced for having "possession of cultural property belonging to the State." He had found, looking good from giving the superintendence, 28 pieces including several ancient amphorae and a set of priceless Roman surgical instruments complete with box, perfectly intact. The prosecutor asked for a ridiculous sentence: six months and 2500 euro fine. "Exaggerated!" Thought the court of Louis Latina Charter. And May 3, 2004 acquitted the accused because "of amphorae, earthenware plates, bowls, and vases, artifacts of various kinds, our seas are full" (...).
There is hardly surprising that foreign museums, in front of our request that it be returned or that piece recipe, maybe that guard them with love and with love in a vision to offer millions of visitors, resistance is thought that the piece will end up anonymously in the pile of abandoned so much wealth in a few museums in the suburbs?
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