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It is as if all of Desenzano had stopped, on Tuesday afternoon, for the last farewell to Maurizio Zanetti: undoubtedly one of the most representative characters of the city in recent decades. Born in 1951, he died at the age of 69 after struggling for a long time with a bloody tumor, which unfortunately did not let him out. He leaves his children Imer, Mario, Clara and Giulio, as well as his brother Marco. “They are my champions and I am proud of them,” he wrote on Facebook.
Many, many knew him: Zanetti accompanied generations of students to school, but also tourists, visitors and people of descent (young and old) in half of Europe. Until 2012 he was the owner of the Brescia Tour, ex Autoservizi Zanetti, the family business founded by his father Pietro Mario in 1956: it was Desenzano’s first license, one of the first on Lake Garda.
Driver, entrepreneur and tireless volunteer
Those years were formidable: he started working in a company while still young, in the seventies. To work as an entrepreneur – the company had had around twenty buses and the same number of employees – he worked alongside the driver, always at the forefront. In memory of the “gnari”: when he was around, people always sang on the bus.
He was the founder of the Stella de Via Rambotti Group: during the Christmas holidays, together with the neighborhood children, he raised funds for charitable initiatives. But he was also a tireless volunteer from the San Zeno parish, as well as a proud alpine: his funeral was not lacking in the black feathers of the Desenzano group, to which he was very attached.
