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A Christmas story that ran the risk of exploding peace between North and South on the same days when we should all be better off. But from Milan to Naples comes the tranquility, which could recall Eduardo’s comedies: we like the manger, and there was no rejection. The Lombard regional councilor Lara Magoni, today, to put a point to the case that broke out this morning of the traditional nativity scene offered by the Campania region to several other Italian regions and that would have been rejected by the Lombardy region and diverted to Bergamo.
Belén de Campan, the Lombard councilor defends himself: “I did not refuse but I indicated Bergamo as the most suitable city”
The Lombardy region rejects the nativity scene donated by Campania
by Stella Cervasio
“I called the Counselor of Tourism of the Campania Region, Felice Casucci, as soon as I was offered the wonderful opportunity to host the nativity scene in the Lombardy Region, as a tribute to the Campania Region. A much appreciated thought, of affection and union, especially after a tragic year like the one our Italy and Lombardy have experienced. Therefore, a clarification is urgent: Councilor Casucci, with a note of December 7 sent on December 7 to all Councilors of Tourism of Italy, had asked the regional councilors to be able to indicate places with a tourist vocation, in which to allocate the artifacts of the Neapolitan tradition.
To this request, explains the Councilor for Tourism, Fashion and Territorial Marketing in the share Brothers of Italy, Lombardy “after having carried out a technical control that highlighted how the Campania procedure provided for a transfer from December 18, Therefore , time is not useful for a regional initiative, I myself thanked councilor Casucci for the idea, representing him in the whole matter related to the tight deadline. As councilor of Lombard and Bergamo, I suggested that he evaluate Bergamo for this gift: indeed , we both agreed that it was especially significant to bring the nativity scene to the city symbolized by Covid as a message of hope and a symbol of rebirth for our Bergamo ”.
The nativity scene donated by Campania and “rejected” by Lombardy displayed in the courtyard of the Bergamo Town Hall
“So much so – Magoni concludes in his note – that precisely today Commissioner Casucci sent me a letter that reads as follows:” The courteous tone of our telephone conversation excluded a rejection of the initiative taken by the Campania Region to promote its excellence handicrafts and tourist attractions. His indication of Bergamo as the ideal place for the Neapolitan birthplace was captured by us through direct contact with the city and its mayor, who expressed sincere enthusiasm for the idea. ‘”A highly symbolic tribute to which I am glad to have come to a destination that brings with it all that strength, energy and passion that we all need.
In short, it would not have been a refusal, but a transfer of headquarters due to bureaucracies and technical times, argues Magoni. Who, in months in which not always loving words have flown between the governors of the two regions, tries to close the subject with “a sincere thanks and a hug to all the friends of Campania”.
