Here's how Pisa will change its face in the coming years. Presented the Culture Plan 2021-2023

This is how Pisa will change its face in the coming years: in fact, Culture Councillor Pierpaolo Magnani presented the Culture Plan 2021-2023, which includes, among its key points, the opening of the new Galilean Citadel. The plan calls for new performance areas as well as an enhancement of exhibition and museum areas.

Regarding the latter, the two pivotal elements of the plan will be the aforementioned Cittadella Galileiana, which will come to life in the area of the Old Slaughterhouses (they will be recovered) and become home to the new science museum, and the redevelopment of the Bastion of Parlascio, which will be the access point to the route of the walls, walkable, and will house the city’s digital museum. Then again, the plan concerns the church of Santa Maria della Spina, identified as an exhibition venue for video art works, and other exhibition areas are identified in the Logge di Banchi, the Guelph Tower, the Porticato of Palazzo Gambacorti and the Republican Arsenals.

Again, the SMS Library will become the headquarters of the city’s cultural associations, starting in September 2021, and will be a venue for conferences, as will the Stazione Leopolda and the Bastione Sangallo. There is also a project being studied to make the Arno navigable, so as to bring tourists to the heart of the city. Finally, a number of areas have been identified for entertainment: the Giardino Scotto, which will host musical and theatrical events between May and October and will be the site of the Fuori Teatro event; Piazza dei Cavalieri, which will be the venue for concerts by national and international stars; Largo Ciro Menotti, the site of free events, talk shows, presentations, meetings and children’s shows; and Cittadella Park, for events with a larger capacity than the Giardino Scotto.

“Pisa has an immense cultural wealth,” declares Councillor Magnani. “Our goal is to recover unused places in the city by returning them to residents and making them usable for tourists. Many of the projects presented today, some of which have already been financed, are the fruit of the work done with the Pisa Capital of Culture 2022 dossier: work done competently, which has been able to set in motion many ideas and energies and offer a vision of the city that remains valid and on which we will continue to work. Another objective is the redevelopment of the Bastion of Parlascio. This place, formerly the gateway to the city, will become, once the work is completed, a multimedia museum and the main point of ascent to the city walls, thanks also to funding from the Pisa Foundation.” Finally, we are working to give a new home to the city’s associations and create a portal, linked to the Municipality’s website, where all of Pisa’s associations will find space and visibility with the aim of creating a single calendar of the cultural initiatives that there are in the city so as not to overlap in the organization of activities. It will be the SMS Center the place destined for the city associations that thanks to its architectural conformation lends itself well to serve as the legal, operational, creative headquarters of a substantial number of realities that will be able to exercise their activities there by obtaining exclusive spaces and compatibly with the activity carried out find a physical place commensurate with their needs. The physical place may consist of a simple closet where social books are kept up to an even considerable space where activities can be exercised. Also envisioned is the use of common spaces (from the large hall on the ground floor, to the indoor cloister, to the outdoor amphitheater)."

Photo: Santa Maria della Spina. Ph. Credit

Here's how Pisa will change its face in the coming years. Presented the Culture Plan 2021-2023

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