Goodbye Morandi bridge: the video of the demolition

The symbolic piles of the Morandi bridge are no longer there. At 9.37 this morning, June 28, a controlled implosion collapsed them to the ground.Dynamite and plastic had been placed on the pylons and stays of piles 10 and 11 of the former viaduct in order to knock down the piles which have been the distinctive feature of the bridges built by Morandi over the last 40 years.

The implosion caused a big white cloud that enveloped everything. Once the dust cleared, the most "famous" part of the Polcevera was no longer there. The pylons demolished today are those closest to the houses, on the east side of the stream. The three pylons of the western slope remain standing. 

Present in the Ligurian capital, alongside the mayor, Marco Bucci, the governor Giovanni Toti and the ministers of the Interior Matteo Salvini, Luigi Di Maio of economic development and Elisabetta Trenta of Defense.

A little over 11 months after the tragedy of 14 August 2018, which claimed the lives of 43 people, Genoa is therefore preparing for reconstruction. 

“Everything went according to plan. Delay due to reporting a person in an apartment. At 9,37 the bridge came down,” said the mayor and commissioner Marco Bucci thanking “everyone who worked. A great work that deserves recognition”.

The mayor announced a first check at 17 and a second at 21: "Based on the second we will make decisions on the return of the displaced". 

"From today the Morandi Bridge is a memory - said the president of the Liguria Region, John Toti – with the implosion the construction site comes alive, starting tomorrow you will see the beam on the first pillar of the new bridge for which we are laying the foundations. I think it is truly an extraordinary day for Genoa, but also an extraordinary day for Liguria, an extraordinary day for Italy”. "I am totally confident" about the reconstruction, said the deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini after the demolition of the piles.