Bari wants to become like New York? St. Nicholas mega-statue is planned at the port gate

Bari wants to gear up to become like New York: the world’s economic capital welcomes those arriving by sea with its celebrated Statue of Liberty, located at the entrance to the harbor, while Puglia’s capital intends to welcome sea travelers with a mega-Statue of St. Nicholas, which is also expected to rise at the city’s harbor gate. Compared to the Statue of Liberty, however, the St. Nicholas will be smaller in size: some 70 meters (20-meter base included), compared to 93 meters for its New York “colleague.”

The project is by the “A Statue for Saint Nicholas” association, which also appointed a technical committee this summer, chaired by Anna Losurdo, coordinated by Enzo Varricchio and composed of Vincenzo Capobianco, Fabio Fatiguso, Loredana Ficarelli, Luigi Mirizzi, Alessandro Reina and Bruno Notarnicola. In recent days the committee has identified the place where the behemoth will rise: the port’s Varco della Vittoria, located on the Vittorio Veneto waterfront, not far from the eastern entrance to the Levante Fair. It will be visible, the association points out, from 20 kilometers as the crow flies. The choice of the location, the association further states, “was motivated by the state ownership of the area, the size and wide visibility of the statue from all directions due to the absence of obstacles, and the environmental context, which is ideal for creating a tourist movement from the Basilica to the statue via shuttles, decongesting the urban center and completely redeveloping the area.”

The next committee meeting is set for the second week of November. In the meantime, the association has released renderings of the statue: and so if in New York it is the flashlight of liberty to welcome sailors, in Bari there will be the crosier of St. Nicholas.

Bari wants to become like New York? St. Nicholas mega-statue is planned at the port gate

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