PARK INCLUSIVE "VITALIANO"

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The inclusive park was inaugurated on Friday 24 May 2024 in the hamlet of Santa Lucia di Cava de' Tirreni, a work of urban regeneration, designed by technicians Carmine Timpone and Generoso Bonacci, which featured an area that has been a symbol of degradation for decades and abandonment, which hosted the prefabricated buildings from the post-1980 earthquake and which now regains its dignity.

The inclusive park was inaugurated on Friday 24 May 2024 in the hamlet of Santa Lucia di Cava de' Tirreni, a work of urban regeneration, designed by technicians Carmine Timpone and Generoso Bonacci, which featured an area that has been a symbol of degradation for decades and abandonment, which hosted the prefabricated buildings from the post-1980 earthquake and which now regains its dignity. 

The 4000 square meter green park was designed to meet everyone's needs, with fitness equipment, educational gardens, sound and tactile games, inclusive basketball and thematic green areas, coordinated by the manager of the Botanical Garden of Naples Rossella Muoio. Also within the service park, with the aromatherapy and chromotherapy garden, the medicinal and aromatic plant garden, the Mediterranean scrub grove and the butterfly garden.

In this way, the conditions have been created for the activation of numerous inclusive laboratories which will have to animate the park from now on with the schools and the various associative realities of the territory. In the field of inclusion, at the basis of the PICS projects carried out in the city, a lot of work has been done, in synergy and collaboration with the city observatory on the condition of people with disabilities and with the most active third sector associations: Fondazione Sinapsi, Pandora Artiste Association, Ceramiste Libera Mente, Misericordia Cava de' Tirreni, “Casa Mia Onlus Association Dopo di Noi, il Germoglio, Anaima, Kaliphilia Ets, Il Grillo e la Coccinella, Age Caps, APDD Association of people with Down syndrome and intellectual disabilities , Unlimited Sports.

A park designed for everyone that guarantees universal accessibility standards.

The intervention involved the creation of a large inclusive accessible park with pedestrian spaces, games, greenery, sports and gymnastic equipment, and children's rides, promoting urban and social redevelopment in an area of approximately 4,000 square meters occupied for decades by post-earthquake prefabricated buildings, characterized by strong degradation and urban marginality. The objective is to provide the area with qualified and innovative services, transforming it into a multipurpose space for collective neighborhood activities, in order to reduce social exclusion, the perception of insecurity and promote integration between different segments of society, involving social enterprises and third sector organisations.

The new park, located in Santa Lucia, offers a 4,000 square meter green area with themed areas, sports equipment, rides, services, and spaces for events and socialization. Thanks to specific characteristics, the park will be one of a kind, surrounding a school and promoting collaboration with experts in nature and botany to make the park inclusive in all aspects. The introduction of elements such as the butterfly garden, aromatherapy and chromotherapy, the garden of aromatic medicinal plants and the horticultural area will contribute to offering inclusive workshops with the active participation of local associations and schools.

The project was financed with 1,404,638.30 euros from the Integrated Sustainable City Program (Pics), Axis 10 of the Campania FESR PO.

The park was named after Brigadier Giovanni Vitaliano, martyr of the Nazi persecutions who died in the Flossenbürg concentration camp (Germany) on 5 November 1944, with a touching ceremony attended by the Mayor Vincenzo Servalli, the prefect Armando Forgione, Central Director - Central Directorate for general affairs and personnel policies, representing the Chief of Police Vittorio Pisani, the Prefect of Salerno Francesco Esposito, the Police Commissioner of Salerno Giancarlo Conticchio, General Claudio Savarese, nephew of Giovanni Vitaliano, H.E. mgr. Orazio Soricelli Archbishop of Amalfi-Cava de' Tirreni, with the vicar Don Beniamino D'Arco, parish priest of Santa Lucia, the Regional Councilor Franco Picarone, representing the President of the Campania Region Vincenzo De Luca, the Magistrates Leonida Primicerio, Rocco Alfano, Vincenzo Senatore, Councillors, Municipal Councillors, territorial civil and military authorities, the Combatant, Patriotic and Social Associations, the Military Shrine, the Red Cross, Mani Amiche, the children of the nursery school and the First Circle of Santa Lucia.

The new Vitaliano urban park was financed with 1,404,638.30 euros from the Integrated Sustainable City Program (Pics), Axis 10 of the PO FESR Campania, coordinated by the municipal councilor delegated to the PICs Anna Padovano Sorrentino.

29-05-24 Antonio Di Martino