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Sopra e sotto, due vedute palermitane di una Conca d'Oro ancora sostanzialmente integra realizzate tra il 1952 ed il 1957 dal fotografo Leonard Van Matt; gli scatti - realizzati dalla zona di Altofonte, verso la piana di Palermo e le verso le campagne di Monreale - sono tratti dall'opera 'La Sicilia Antica', edito da Stringa Editore Genova  





Conca d’Oro: una denominazione territoriale che richiama subito alla memoria Palermo e la Sicilia , diffusasi nella città spagnola del secolo XVI ed oggi consegnata alle memorie di vecchi cronisti o viaggiatori; come l’archeologo e scrittore americano William Agnew Paton, che, nel 1902, poteva descrivere l’”incantevole distesa” di quasi 100 chilometri squares of orange groves, olive trees, almond trees, groups of agave, yucca and palm trees.

There are many views of Palermo and essays published in books, for the most part, these are photos taken from the slope of Mount Pellegrino looking towards the harbor. One of these - rather rare because color and from the early fifties of last century - still shows the dominance of those built on farmland.
Image - Photographer Patrice Molinard - is taken from the book 'Sicily', published in France by 'the Duke' for the series 'Couleurs du Monde'

Even at the end of the nineteenth century, the geographer Fisher compared the valley to a huge seagull Palermo, whose large wings stretched - from East and West - from Cape to Cape Gallo Mongerbino the tail - Fisher explained - crept through the mountains of Monreale and Alton, while the head seemed to sink the real sea.

Mannerist A view of the Conca d'Oro Gibilrossa, favorite place viewing the expanse of citrus groves, olive, almond and vineyards now mostly removed from the speculation. Only between 1953 and 1966, Palermo saw increases of 125 per cent urban housing surface. The photo - signed by TCI - is published in 'Sicily', the series 'Through Italy', published by the Italian Touring Club in 1933

Above and below Two shots of the Conca d'Oro di Italo Zannier, the first head is made from Monreale to Saffron, the second from the slopes of Monte Pellegrino to the area of \u200b\u200bthe plain of the Hills, who a few years would have been overrun by subdivisions avenue of Strasbourg. The photos are layers opera 'The Coast of Italy - Sicily', Eni Milan, 1968

Until the mid-twentieth century, the green area had retained its agricultural vocation, according to various distribution of plants and Bonagia Pallavicino vineyards, olive groves to Thomas Christmas, San Lorenzo and Cardillo, a citrus Ciaculli, and Bonagia Falsomiele Romagnolo and field crops to water and the Corsairs.

Above, an eloquent document of the rapid growth urban housing in Palermo during the years of what has been chronicled mafia to memory as "the sack of the city: the classical volume of the Teatro Massimo, and behind, the INA skyscraper, with its budding close buildings.

The photograph is taken from 'The Streets of Italy' in May 1960, at a time when the slogan of Salvo Lima was mayor "Palermo is beautiful, let's even more beautiful."

In this photo, a subdivision in the Malaspina district, in the late fifties, in an area that until a few years ago was dominated by orange groves

Many decades later - in 1960, in the middle period of the so-called 'building lot' of Palermo, which would have wiped out much of the floral wealth from Piana dei Colli Bagheria from Monreale to Ciaculli - Google Stephen would have written that the basin is a complete and indivisible body, a real territorial unity and community that should be considered in both studies, both in urban planning: a case - that of Di Stefano, incredibly short-sighted of environmental destruction and landscape then in place, thanks to the pouring of concrete in the sixties and seventies changed the face area of \u200b\u200bPalermo: the wild speculation that in Palermo, only between 1953 and 1966, had increased by 125 per cent of the urban housing surface.

The area of \u200b\u200bsports facilities, in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Parco della Favorita, Palermo, in which the green of the Conca d'Oro ranged up on the slopes of Mount Pellegrino. From left to right, the athletics stadium on Palm, the former football stadium ' La Favorita '- now' Renzo Barbera '- and the racecourse. The shooting is Fotocielo and was published in 'Sicily' necklace 'Through Italy', published by the Italian Touring Club in 1961

The estimate of how difficult it was built: the sources of the City Planning Division, however, evaluate in 300 million cubic meters of residential buildings built in Palermo after the war until the nineties of last century.

Buildings urban assault of the Conca d'Oro, Palermo from the center of the area that looks towards the slopes of Gibilrossa: photography, created by Fotocielo is published in 'Sicily' necklace 'Through Italy', published by the Italian Touring Club in 1961

above, the proposed subdivision of the district of New Village, the area of \u200b\u200bthe Conca d'Oro called Passo di Rigano.
The plan of Palermo in 1962 gave way to an impressive work of overbuilding in the city, abandoning any possibility of restructuring the old town, badly damaged by bombs in 1943.
The speculation of those years, entrusted by the policy makers related to the mafia, did not take into account the protection of the great natural heritage represented by the old suburban agricultural areas.
Below, a photo of the building boom created by the photographer from Palermo Josip Ciganovic

The construction of new buildings on the one hand, was met by the need to recover the 70,000 rooms in the old town destroyed by bombing 1943; the other hand, new buildings were built in the suburbs is there to hold the large mass of Sicilians who found work in the city became the capital of the immense bureaucracy of the Sicilian Region. To make building the havoc that marked the loss of the Conca d'Oro, we thought the builders physically linked to mafia families and politicians, the mafia that got the votes to guide local governments, beginning with the Municipality, as the proceedings of the Parliamentary Anti-mafia are many testimonies on record number of building permits granted by Salvo Lima - author of the building-election slogan 'Palermo is beautiful , let's do even better '- and Vito Ciancimino.

The 'absurd cluster of houses "built in the area of \u200b\u200bwhat used to be far away now could be called the Conca d'Oro, as defined in 1982 by writer Camilla Cederna; photography is once again Italo Zannier

In 1982, the effects of such a policy planning Camilla Cederna did write to the island's capital had become "absurd a cluster of houses, one attached to another, all forms and colors ... a gangrene that has eaten the capital: a city so disfigured that can not be a city sick .... "

To understand the value of the loss of the Conca d'Oro, finally, you can still sum up what he wrote nine years before Cederna in his essay 'The landscape aesthetics' the philosopher nissen Rosario Assunto: of that landscape - considerò Assunto - “non si può non sentire il rimpianto, come di una luce che si sia spenta sul mondo”.