Volterra, for three years ban on opening new bars and restaurants in historic center

In Volterra, for the next three years, no bars, restaurants or, in general, activities in which the serving of food and beverages is involved will be allowed to open. The municipality intends in this way to solve a problem, that of the proliferation of eateries, which plagues many tourist cities and risks lowering the quality of Volterra’s gastronomic offerings. “We are satisfied,” Tourism Councillor Gianni Baruffa explained in a note, “because we believe that stakes and rules are needed, otherwise every tourist and non-tourist town risks becoming an open-air restaurant. Thanks also to the city secretary and the Suap office for preparing the resolution in a few hours, to be brought to the first useful council.”

Mayor Marco Buselli echoes him, “The measure immediately seemed to us to be the best tool. And within a few hours we already had the draft resolution ready. We have tried in various ways during these years to facilitate, to disincentivize, to curb, but we have seen that the market related to food and beverage risks in Volterra to make the same mistakes made in the field of alabaster. The market is unable to regulate itself. Loss of quality, typical products that are not such, entrepreneurial improvisation, rampant activity, everyone doing everything. Once the new openings are stopped, we will have to reason about the quality of the existing ones and reward those who really carry out healthy principles consistent with the logic of giving value to the quality productions of the territory.”

Volterra thus follows the example of Lucca, the first Tuscan municipality to adopt an identical measure (in fact, even in the city of walls a three-year stop was recently imposed on the opening of new bars and restaurants in the historic center).

Photo: Volterra, Piazza dei Priori. Ph. Credit Jean-Christophe Benoist

Volterra, for three years ban on opening new bars and restaurants in historic center

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