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“Christmas is safe,” he wrote. Charles dickens. “Or at least we tried,” he would add in the Covid era. In times of ordinances, decrees and prohibitions that, once again, turn daily life, work and loved ones back into chaos and uncertainty, even that part of our life made up of lights, snowflakes and Christmas trees you risk being affected. Superfluous, of course, in a health and human emergency, but fundamental in such a difficult year because of its meaning full of positivity and sharing.
Bergamo is preparing to face the second wave of that virus that has kept us all on the line for eight months and some difficult decisions have already been made for the Christmas period in the city: the traditional Christmas village of Piazzale Alpini and the track Of skating. in Piazza della Libertà this year they will not be installed.
“For now they are the only certainties. We live day by day to understand what we can save. The Christmas stalls in front of the Donizetti remain in doubt, as are the stalls of S. Lucia sul Sentierone for the traditional three days.
According to the latest regional ordinance (signed on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 21) all fairs are suspended until November 13: if, from the following days, we have the green light, we will work to guarantee all positions. Unfortunately for now we cannot say more. For the Christmas Village of Piazzale Alpini we could not have alternatives: to start working in it in mid-November would have been too late from an organizational point of view ”, he declared. Cesare Rossi, deputy director of Confesercenti Bergamo.
me Giulio Zambelli, The president ANVA Confesercenti Bergamo and a partner of the Noter de Berghem association that organizes the Christmas market specifies: “For the Christmas people we will evaluate 100% after November 14, following how the health situation will go.”
However, it is still premature to say whether the Ferris wheel will be mounted in the center of the city in front of the Palazzo Frizzoni, so beloved last year in its first edition, as well as the great tree with all its plays of lights.
“This is an evolving situation, we are working hard to guarantee all the beauty of Christmas that makes our city so attractive, but also to protect all the merchants that invoice almost half the year during the Christmas period.
An issue that should not be underestimated that worries us a lot. There is no shortage of projects and we want to believe that they can be carried out: for all the magic and joy it brings with it and for the symbolic value it will have in this difficult year. We care a lot and, within the limits of the ordinances and decrees, we will do everything possible to ensure positivity and social and economic recovery, “he said. Nicola Viscardi, President of the urban commercial district of Bergamo.
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