Through Mazza, the forgotten road. Travel between canyons and endless construction sites

What happened to Palazzo Aymonino via Mazza? It has been under renovation for 6 years, at least 3 million have been spent but 34 rooms that should go to young families and those in need are still closed. Why? Last March, the final works were handed over for 85,000 euros, practically a little. It is not clear whether the interventions have been implemented for a year or more but it is certain that everything has been prevented. There is also the inevitable sign “We Pesaro, we work for you” but now it is hard to believe. In the Municipality they stretched out their hands saying they heard Erap. We will try.

Walking along Via Mazza you feel like you are in a suspended city, between modernity and poverty, with renovated buildings and abandoned houses. You walk “zigzagging” between scaffolding and walkways to contextual works in Palazzo Almerici, home to the historic Oliveriani library and archaeological museum. The construction sites will remain there until at least the spring of 2026, but the works have not yet started: “Unfortunately there have not been many services for the citizens – comments Romolo Mennella, resident -. From one day to the next we found ourselves with this ‘beast’, with the road closed and the risk of an accident to get around by car Above me lives an old woman who needs help at the right time: if an ambulance is needed, to be able to get to the front door you have to take a long way around, completing it by going back from the crossroads and the Corso and these rock monoliths in front of the window, not even a meter, are an invitation to thieves.”

Even the pedestrian crossing, in fact, raises many concerns: “For the platform, at first, the water holes were blocked for the correct flow of water, which was compensated by two pipes that came out in front of our condo – explains Roberto. Carreca, resident – Together and the construction of the passage, however, one of these tubes was closed Via Mazza is a little concave, if it had rained like those we have witnessed in recent days, those who live in the building on the ground floor, but also the library itself, without finding themselves in water up to their ankles. But what do those who, for all intents and purposes, are about to become the protagonists of Pesaro2024 think? “These are long tasks, it is true, but they are necessary – explains Brunella Paolini director of the Olivieri Institute -. Let’s say one thing: there is a little worry on our side too, because people can see the construction site and think that they are closed, but they are not, the hours are still the same and we are here behind the scaffolding. then the work will have to begin.”

Alessio Zaffini