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Identity card in just 7 days and without reservation: it's not a mirage but it's what really happens in San Candido

Renewing your identity card in big cities has become torture and making a reservation is almost impossible. But it's not like this everywhere. In San Candido, one of the pearls of the Dolomites, renewing the card even for Italians who do not reside there is possible in a week, without reservations and without queues. It seems like a miracle but it's reality.

Identity card in just 7 days and without reservation: it's not a mirage but it's what really happens in San Candido

Everyone knows that renewing the identity card in big cities it's a kind of torture. Let's hope that with the arrival of the Post it will get better, but we will have to wait at least until the end of the year. Today the most difficult thing is managing to book an appointment with him Speed. The writer has tried for many months to Roma. The answer was always the same: there are no dates available to schedule a meeting in the places responsible for renewing the card. I tried them all: I went to the Cafs, I visited the kiosks opened by the Municipality of Rome on weekends and I even went to the district at dawn. To no avail. The answer was always the same: without a reservation you cannot renew the card. But the sore point was and is precisely this: how to obtain the reservation to start the renewal procedures. In the best case scenario you could look for a reservation in some municipality in the province but after months. One morning in May I tried to play on the counterattack by looking for an online reservation at dawn and I hit the mark: reservation accepted for July 5th at the municipal offices in via Petroselli. Hurray. We had to wait almost two months and my identity card expired on June 27th, but never mind. The practical problem was another: having booked a holiday in the mountains for some time The Dolomites from July 150st, in order not to lose the reservation and finally renew the card, I would have had to postpone the departure for almost a week or resign myself to spending approximately 8 euros for a quick trip from Val Pusteria to Rome and return to start the renewal procedures of the much desired card. Really quite a nuisance. But, when I was now resigned to this via crucis and was already enjoying the fresh air of San Candido, an acquaintance gave me an unthinkable and very precious suggestion: try to renew my identity card at the San Candido Town Hall. It seemed like an impossible attempt to me, but it was worth trying too and so on July XNUMXth I tried. Yes, the identity card could also be renewed for non-residents and so I handed over the expired document and the necessary photos, filled out a form with my details and thanked heaven. A week later my new ID card was ready. Without queues and without reservations. I thought it was a mirage and I never stopped thanking all the employees, to be honest, a little surprised, of the Municipality of San Candido, one of the pearls of the The Dolomites which, in addition to its natural beauty, had the intelligence not to focus on mass tourism and to preserve a human dimension. What seemed like a miracle to me was possible because San Candido Is it a small center where even bureaucracy becomes simple? Perhaps this is the case, but even in the small municipalities of the province of Rome, booking is certainly necessary. Be that as it may, turning my new identity card over and over in my hands as if it were a holy card, I said to myself: this is the Italy we all would like, but it is another Italy. Thank you, San Candido.

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