The Catajo Castle is safe (for now): the Superintendence blocks the construction of the shopping center

It closes, at least for the moment, the affair of the Catajo Castle, in the Euganean Hills (Veneto): the building was threatened, since last summer, by the imminent construction of a shopping center in its vicinity, which would have irreparably compromised the landscape and the landscape of the area. We had devoted a lengthy article to the matter, also listening to the director of the Castle, Marco Moressa, and the article we had written had prompted a parliamentary question.

On Thursday finally came what could be thelast word: the superintendence confirmed the landscape constraint in the area around the Catajo Castle, which until now was provisional. The shopping center that was supposed to be built in the municipality of Due Carrare, near the castle, will therefore not be built, since it insists on an area protected by constraint. The affair, however, is not yet completely over: Deda srl, the company that owns the area designated to accommodate the hypermarket, has announced that it will appeal to the Tar, stating, moreover, that it is sure to win and that it intends, in the event, to ask for damages. A stop, by the way, could cause the company to lose the entire amount invested so far in the operation (about 15 million euros).

Satisfaction from Sergio Cervellin, the entrepreneur who took over Catajo Castle to restore it and return it to public enjoyment. Environmentalists, too, extremely pleased with the result to which the mobilizations of the territory have led, expressed their happiness with this first outcome of the affair, seen as decisive: only the superintendence in fact had the power to block the work. Now it will therefore be necessary to wait for the moves of the company that purchased the area on which it would have liked to build the shopping center.

Source: Corriere del Veneto.

Pictured: the interior of the Catajo Castle.

The Catajo Castle is safe (for now): the Superintendence blocks the construction of the shopping center

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