It's hard to say if 50 years is the time of justice or injustice, certainly it's too long a time to make a decision. Yet the legal battle between the historic Bolognese disco lasted a long time, “The Capannina” and the Municipality of Bologna which yesterday, with a sentence from the Council of State in hand, sent the demolition order to the property. In 90 days this sort of Billionaire with meat sauce it must be demolished and if the owner doesn't do it, the Municipality will take care of it. The 1985 "grave" amnesty for the Superintendency and the administrative courts is no longer valid; the first demolition order of '79 is back in vogue. A true legal puzzle that begins with a 1966 provisional license, a Kafkaesque short story.
La Capannina is a place on the hills of Bologna, born from the expansion of a Cral after the war and reached a size of 450 meters. A less famous ballroom than the homonymous one in Marina di Pietrasanta, yet a place that has known golden times, where many VIPs alternated. Among others, beautiful and famous actresses such as Corinne Clary and Barbara Bouchet.
The owner is Paul Pazzaglia, a playboy from another era, but also an entrepreneur who doesn't intend to let go of his most famous creature. "Certainly I will contest - he says to Resto del Carlino - they do their race, I do mine, this story has been going on since 74".
The judicial process therefore does not end here and after half a century of pardons, sentences, ordinances, it promises to go on. Meanwhile, throughout this period, the Petronian Municipality has acted in two roles: on the one hand as a body that protects the landscape, on the other as someone who dictates rules for the functioning of the discotheque, about which there would be nothing to object.
So, what is the problem? The hill, for the Superintendency and for the successive administrations, has always been a sacred place to be preserved by the concrete and to be left at the disposal of the entire community. It is a point of view matured over the years in which Bologna, the redhead, wanted to be a national political laboratory, an honorable project on paper, which declared war on the building owners, but which was not very vital over time.
In fact, the hill is scarcely frequented. There are many public parks, but a difficult and confusing road system. Beautiful villas for a privileged few and some small premises. In fact it is semi-unknown to tourists and little used even by some citizens. Bologna has never developed in that direction, which perhaps would have had something to offer and every point of view, even the most honorable, should be updated.
The clash with the Capannina is the result of this vision of the world. And in 90 days either it collapses or the Municipality will take care of it, as long as Pazzaglia does not get a new referral to court.
