Pizzarotti (mayor of Parma): shutting down all culture was really wrong

The mayor of Parma, Federico Pizzarotti, speaking this morning at the microphones of the L’Italia s’è desta broadcast on Radio Cusano Campus, expressed all his bitterness about the closure of culture, also taking into account the fact that Parma, for 2020, has been awarded the title of Italian Capital of Culture, which for reasons due to the Covid-19 pandemic it will retain for 2021 as well. “At a time when culture is one of the hardest hit sectors,” said a visibly disappointed Pizzarotti, “the solution was not to find adequate measures to be able to enjoy it but was to close everything museums theaters, anything.”

“In the last squeeze,” Parma’s first citizen recalled, “the solution was not to possibly find additional spacings, that is, something to keep open more safely. I do not want to be a virologist, but the solution was to close everything, the easiest solution, but it is also the one that takes something away. And so, talking about culture, to eliminate a whole compartment that also helps to understand the world, I think that was really wrong. I say this on every occasion even with the authority of the Italian Capital of Culture.”

Pizzarotti (mayor of Parma): shutting down all culture was really wrong

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