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Isla Gallinara returns home. And it is made public. The Italian state is ready to exercise the right of first refusal after the seven owner families sold the only true island of Liguria on July 17 to the Ukrainian Olexandr Boguslayev. The Minister of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, confirmed to Messenger Service the indiscretions picked up last night. Boguslayev’s Monegasque company had paid a total of 25 million (including real estate), although the figure was never made official.
After the news, a united front of associations and politicians (local and otherwise) had taken steps to request the preference and prevent the island of western Liguria, 1.5 kilometers off the coast of Albenga and Alassio, from remaining in the hands of the wealthy son of Vyacheslav Boguslayev, from 82 years, in command in Ukraine of one of the world’s largest manufacturers of aircraft, missile and helicopter engines, Motor Sich, a long-time supplier to Russian aviation. The Ukrainian had legitimately bought the island. And today the Italian State, which has moved in all its joints, from the mayor of Albenga to the ministry, equally legitimately exercises the right to buy it preferentially (if the price were 25 million it would cost us about 40 cents each) . The timing of the transfer of ownership was the only possible window to take advantage of the “favor” clause for a property listed as historical and naturalistic.
For the last 40 years, the Gallinara has belonged to Ligurian and Piedmontese families but it has a history that is lost in the mists of time. Inaccessible to tourists, in the shape of a turtle, this strip of Liguria in the middle of the sea, up to 87 meters high, 470 long, 450 wide, was a refuge for saints and Pope Alexander III who fled from Federico Barbarroja in 1162 Under the protection of the Vatican it became the seat of a powerful Benedictine abbey that between the eighth and fourteenth centuries had possessions up to Catalonia and Provence. The island, once populated by wild chickens as Cato and Varrone (“Gallinaria”) wrote, was ceded to the families and bishops of Albenga, the municipal territory to which it belongs today. Until the mid-nineteenth century, when the Imperia banker Leonardo Gastaldi bought it. In World War II a Wehrmacht battalion was established and in 1960 with the Genoese industrialist Riccardo Diana, water, electricity and a splendid villa on the top of the island arrived. It was then administered by Ligurian and Piedmontese families for 40 years in an often conflictual relationship with local authorities and bodies. Among other things, the administration costs were very high and created budget problems for the company that managed the property. So the Ukrainian with cash had an easy game. But eventually (can we tell?) Ours arrived.
September 18, 2020 (change September 19, 2020 | 09:52)
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