Enjoy the Tiber It has always been the dream of every Roman. A dream that, despite the most diverse attempts, has always clashed with the rapids that prevent a soft navigability and the high nineteenth -century walls that saved the city from floods but, at the same time, have inexorably separated it from its river. Maybe for this reason the first A viewing park on the Tiber Wanted by the mayor Gualtieri and inaugurated a few weeks ago, Sunday at lunchtime he was teeming like via del Corso at shopping time. Long light wooden walkway Just less than 600 meters that winds through the area of ​​a hectare and a half close to the river, in fact, from its opening to the public, you can animated a coming and going of elderly and children, of couples looking for a romantic selfie, curious tourists and Romans who wanted to touch their river with their hand, for once walking a few meters from its banks, while the duck they chased and the canoe of many sports centers Housed in the floating huts paraded silently on the water.
A long light wooden walkway
To redevelop and reclaim the area, which runs Between Matteotti Ponte and Ponte Risorgimentothey had to take away Seven hundred truck full of wasteinforms the Capitoline administration. Yet the area, a tender difference in height covered with a shrub and arboreal vegetation that was damaging the wall that flows, under road level, along the lengthy of the ships, was aex oasis wwf, now abandoned to itself and completely disorganized. Now, where until yesterday there were heaps of waste and invasive brushwood, you can walk on the light wooden walkway which runs suspended aboard the river and passes under the trees and every now and then it widens in the widening and pitches with comfortable benches where, if desired, teaching activities can also be carried out for enthusiasts or school groups.
Many curious, tourists and Romans, close to the integration
The comments, collected during our Sunday walk, were enthusiastic. “Pretty” and “beautiful” the most popular, in addition to a little natural amazement in observing, incredibly close, the life that has always animated this river, heart of the city since its foundation in now remote times when, According to tradition, a basket was left to go to its waters and the two abandoned twins sleeping inside, collected and breastfed by a she -wolf. It is the birth, between myth and reality, of a city that will forever continue to pay this affection and devotion to this river as you do with something you love but you know little.
Among those who walked there were those who feared for maintenance (“in six months everything is destroyed here)”, others placed the emphasis on the lack of signs To tell the project, the new plants resident, perhaps a presentation of the place and its recovery. But in general a great satisfaction and a little pride looked in the air because for Rome, the usability of the Tiberrepresents the most tangible ambition of a city -friendly city. And, with its first view park, even if only for a short stretch the Tiber between Ponte Matteotti and Ponte Risorgimento, returns to be of the Romans.
The overlooking parks on the Tiber: 7 million euros of jubilant funds
This view park, on which the large twentieth -century building of the Ministry of the Navy is mirrored, is only the first of five scheduled parks which, ensures the administration, will be completed by Easter and for which they have been invested overall 7.3 million euros of jubilation funds.
The other view parks will be located in Various points of the citywith priority of northern Rome: one will be naturalistic oasis Between Ponte Milvio and Ponte Flaminioan area of ​​almost seven hectares in the golen area of ​​the right bank of the Tiber. Another to Acetosa water meadows At the point where Tiber and Aniene, the second river of the city, join and where 8 and a half hectares will be equipped, according to the project, with a cycle naturalistic path and a network of pedestrian paths, as well as areas with gymnastic tools and playing spaces for children. Another last 1.6 hectare park will be built in the city with a sports vocation of the city, The Italian Forumon the right bank in the golen area between Ponte Milvio and Ponte Duca d’Aosta.
An Ostia a view also, next to the archaeological park
The only one to the south will be the area of ​​about a hectare and a half on the left bank of the Tiber, a Ostia Anticaat the height of the Archaeological park. «We fill a distance: that between the river and the city, with the aim of making the rich river heritage of Rome again usable – explains the councilor for agriculture, environment and waste cycle Sabrina Alfonsi. – The Tiber is a symbol that collects the flow of profound changes capable of constantly innovating the face of the city. We have worked for months to clean up, reclaim this area that today returns to being a common good ». The billboard to inform citizens on the characteristics of the interventions carried out within a few months
A vegetation to restore biodiversity
To return to the Romans also a green area, it was the intervention on the vegetational component. These are shrubs and flowery lawn that have the aim of “reconstituting an environmental landscape fabric through the reintegration of shrubby species and attraction herbaceous for insects, microfauna and avifauna”. Among the shrubs, the ornamental ones have been chosen such as Cornioli, domestic rods and swamp straws, who are the favorite destination of the little avifauna and who do not need maintenance. The other feature of the project, which cost 800 thousand euros in all, is the flowery lawn that will cover the entire escarpment between the lungotevere delle ships and the wooden walkway, taking the place of the shrubs that are currently damaging the wall. “The blooms They will alternate throughout the spring-summer season and until autumn, the grass will not require cuts and a particularly welcoming environment will be created for insects and microfauna that can develop undisturbed “explain from the Department of the Environment which in this way wanted to encourage, as well as protect, the biodiversity of the arguments of the millennial river that crosses the city.
Source: Vanity Fair
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