Sicily. Fight against the mafia, the “Peppino Impastato” farmhouse in Cinisi has been restored: the President of the Region is present at the inauguration.
On the morning of Monday 29 April the inauguration ceremony with the President of the Region, who announced the free loan of the site.
Sicily. Fight against the mafia, the “Peppino Impastato” farmhouse in Cinisi has been restored: the President of the Region is present at the inauguration.
The "Peppino Impastato" farmhouse in Cinisi, in the Palermo area, has been restored and returned to the community, where on 9 May 1978 the political activist and journalist was murdered by the mafia. On the morning of Monday 29 April the inauguration ceremony with the President of the Region, who announced the free loan for use of the site, symbol of the fight against crime, to local associations involved in safeguarding memory.
They were at the ceremony Also present were the regional councillor for cultural heritage and the superintendent of Palermo, the prefect and the police commissioner of Palermo, the extraordinary commissioner of the Municipality of Cinisi, the president of the regional Anti-Mafia commission, numerous civil and military authorities, in addition to Impastato's family members and the delegation from the Cinisi comprehensive institute and the Terrasini complex of the Partinico state high school recently named after Peppino and Felicia Impastato. The President of the Region spoke with the students, addressing the topic of legality practiced in everyday life, and extended an invitation to them to visit Palazzo d'Orléans.
The recovery project of the property and surrounding land – expropriated and entered into possession of the Region in 2020 – It was drawn up by the Superintendency of Cultural Heritage of Palermo. The works had started in January 2023 and were financed with resources from the 2020-2024 Development and Cohesion Fund for an amount of one hundred and fifty thousand euros. The Palermo company Scancarello carried them out.
With this intervention the Sicilian government wanted to save from degradation a place already declared of cultural interest, which has a strong evocative value, a testimony of civilization and the fight against crime, making it a space open to citizens and a stop on that "journey of memory" in memory of the victims of the mafia that many visitors undertake in the name of legality.
In particular, the works involved the consolidation of the masonry and the backdrop with the creation of a ventilated perimeter crawl space as well as the existing plasters. We proceeded with the cleaning and integration of the existing floors with bush-hammered Billiemi stone slabs, the placement of wooden window frames, entrance doors and window spaces and the construction of the electrical system. As regards the revision of the roofs, the screed was remade, waterproofed with mortar and the exposed cane ceiling was restored.
Inside the stable, instead of the stone seat on which traces of blood had remained imprinted, it was decided to create a parallelepiped in transparent polycarbonate. On the surface of one of the sides, a portion was manually made wrinkled to symbolically fix those stains, with the intention of "crystallizing the absence".
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