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Camaiore, fires the shadow of a band that loves

these hills like a fire that peels the woods for months Camaiore had never seen. The last fire Friday, he left Migliano, purgatory near the restaurant, on the main road to Lucca. A hundred feet above where Lando hours Venturini, 75, is in despair: "The deer, the deer ... This morning I found a back, a stump of coal. And when the flames are subdued I'll go into the woods. And loaded with bags, I know. "

He is the guardian of the estate Puos, over 140 hectares of private parkland, the 34th in a spiral of fire that is devouring the headlands of the town of Versilia, the seventh since the 'beginning of July. Yesterday they left about 70 acres. Lando does not know that a joint team is hunting for arsonists, with agents posing as hikers: "We face an organization that works scientifically," says Maurizio Folliero, commander of the Forest Service of Lucca. His men were sent triggers to the CNR of Padua. They hope to find traces of DNA or fingerprints, "But are not coils. Fuses are rudimentary and easy to rebuild, do not say more. C 'is the risk to be imitated. "

Since February three different types of fire challenge firefighters and volunteers. On 80 square kilometers, the municipality has a population of 40 woods and fields. Camaiore sees them a toast after the 'every other day. Out of 35 municipalities in the province of Lucca, this is the 'single targeted. Mayor Giampaolo Bertola (PDL) has requested the intervention of the army and he hoped that "those criminals who set it in the fires, there remain burned, arguing that to guide their hand and political hatred.

The Forest does not think so, "They have the interest, because otherwise only strike Camaiore?" Folliero reasons. The design of the arsonists could be damaging the area to force the administrators to give up building permits. Folliero got sick of digesting address: "Piazza triggers the evening, when Canada and helicopters can not get up in the air." Yesterday the fires in Tuscany did not stop. A fire in the forest Cerretti, in Pisano, has affected much of the nature reserve of Mount Falcon, about 150 hectares.

Posted by Mario on Blacks Florence Republic (24/08/2009)

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TANG have fished out by a whisker two Saturdays ago in Marina di Pietrasanta. No one has yet understood why a boy of about 25 years has allowed itself where he knew he would find a foothold or sand under your feet. Driven by current and a light breeze, the men of the Master of Forte dei Marmi have managed to nab them on the boat hoist and two hundred meters farther than where they had gone into the sea. Slipped away from one of the two tents of reeds that with thirty fellow had rented the Nautilus, the surf had regurgitated half live where the water was already around his neck. No one who has seen the struggle. A couple of drinks and then down like a stone.

"No, I can not swim, 'he made it clear by gesture to those who came to the rescue and medical Versilia Hospital, where he sobered up a base of salt and sea grass. He is not the first nor probably will be the last summer that the Chinese are putting the military alert in the Navy that guard the coast of Versilia. "The Chinese tourists are eccentric, not swim yet ventured into the sea without taking precautions. They seem to have no fear of water, and sometimes even give the impression of wanting to experience the thrill, "says Fabrizio Rat Vaquer, commander of the Coast Guard to Viareggio.

In a factory in the city, a few days ago, husband and wife have stopped on the shore. Chinese, unless they were walking or masseuses, not among the guests if they had ever seen. The appearance has provoked surprise and made up the antennas to the lifeguards: even the two middle-aged people - a little accustomed to red flags, yellow, and other signs of danger - thought to challenge the seabed. "The lifeguards have asked if they could swim, almost did not understand them at first, then explaining with gestures. It was the first time they came to the sea. And there are similar cases reported by the bathrooms that have a swimming pool. We can not understand if you Tuffin to unconsciousness or emulation. That is, if you think it easy to stay afloat because they succeed in the West, "continues Rat Vaquer revealing:" The presence of Chinese and Asians on our shores is a new phenomenon, as the nucleus, but could grow next year and perhaps will need to equip to make them understand that there are rules to follow and precautions to take before you bathe. "

So there's already people who think sow folder full of characters that traccino the identikit of the wetting model: that is what you do not enter the water after eating risking congestion and that donut and arms, although little chic, are un'accortezza that works for all ages. "They come to Prato, one or two days at the weekend. They are often in a group and you will find yourself in twenty camped under a couple of tents or umbrellas even if the direction were presented in two. However, I am quiet and very polite, "says Carlo Monti, president of the seaside resorts of Viareggio. "True, but a packed lunch," says Roberta the Nautilus, which from the beginning of August in which tourism is made in China a couple of tents and a few umbrellas.

A Motrone, under the blazing sun of the last patch of sand before Lido di Camaiore, the sons of the Dragon peep on Saturday or Sunday even in the bathrooms nearby, but mostly inhabit the beach. Families with children, experts in the hit and run, migrants fleeing the campaigns of the People's Republic of hungry fans are pedal boats. "They come early in the morning - said a lifeguard at the King - will hire two or three, here and in the bathrooms nearby, and leaving until noon in search of jellyfish. We fill the glass jars and then sprinkle of flour. They say that fries are delicious. I let them do, nobody here is complaining more for stapling. "

Posted by Mario on Blacks Florence Republic (18/08/2009)

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Versilia sea, the summer crisis

Versilia - The house of Teresa, if you look sharp, is among those that are there, a few meters on the sea of \u200b\u200bumbrellas scattered Fiumetto in August of this fire. But to see it from above, the glow of the Versilia beach does not evaporate the spectrum of crisis. On the one hand combed bathrooms and half-empty which sos launch the resort management of the economy, the crowding of the other a weekend of low-cost. "I rent this year I had to lower the price, a ten per cent, but I had to," says Teresa Balder, one of the many home owners who are shorting out marinate the turnover of rentals in Versilia. Grill on the global downturn in late September could be pulverized 2 million visitors. From Viareggio to Forte dei Marmi, real estate agents speak of a decline ranging from 20 to 30 percent. Empty houses, especially the homes of middle class or upper middle.

In a city like Viareggio - make an example by APT - until a few years ago in the summer went from 64 thousand to 180 thousand inhabitants, the crisis 40 thousand may have made to disappear. "The collapse - said John Lombardi, president of real estate in Forte dei Marmi - is due to the exodus of the middle class. A phenomenon in progress for some years, more time has come the long wave of crisis. " Missing the lawyer or the merchant. "White Collar Lombard or Tuscan that the fort was used to accommodate the villas of about 7 thousand euro per month. Do we save with the Russians and the Italians who rent the mega industrial houses, "Maria Rosa Nardini confesses Study House.

Pietrasantaa From Marina di Viareggio, where prices are lower (between 5 and start down to € 2 thousand in the city's train crash), things are no better, and all point the finger at a specific charge, the owners: "There are those who made the balances at the last moment and who, rather than lower prices, did not even rented, "the agency said in Victory Fiumetto. The negative trend does not save the hosts. Last week, the Federalberghi Tuscany has released the latest figures of 2009: "I'm also drop in arrivals, but has dropped especially the number of appearances - says President Paul Corchia - the latest survey indicates a less than 7% of overnight stays in accommodation . There is a tendency to take very short holidays, the average is 5 days. In most American tourists are gone and the British and the Russians are less than last year. We survive with the Italians that the crisis has eased pockets and imposed holiday in the country and not abroad. These figures have an impact in the employment field. This year no one dared to hire a cook or a waiter anymore. "

The numbers also concerned Apt local leaders: "They mean less than 200 thousand in attendance - says Massimo Lucchesi, president of the agency for tourism - but it is a fact that must be added to the summer vacation, that we are the lion's share when calculating the number of days decides to spend every holiday in a villa in Versilia. Eleven million visitors, Versilia is used to accommodate almost 8 in second homes or homes that residents leave to make room for tourists cower in the hinterland. According to APT this year will not be exceeded six million, two million visitors evaporated.

'Agents and owners have adjusted to the market - continues Lucchesi - almost no one is held to be rented on a weekly basis, but the villagers do not exist anymore. " Now expects September. The financial bubble burst with the subprime may have eaten a pie millionaire.

Published by Mario Blacks on Florence Republic (11/08/2009)

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The feud of the lifeguards turn on the Palio dei Bagni

Forte dei Marmi - now on both sides of the pier had become as between Guelphs and Ghibellines. The feud between the lifeguards in the last two months has threatened to derail the race of the patina in Forte dei Marmi should be run Aug. 26. "I seem to see the rivalries and grievances of the past, every yard a bell, we are always the same." Polacci William, 75, sitting on the patina of rescue near the shoreline of the Marconi holds an oar and said to be one of those that the Palio dei Bagni have seen the birth. He ran the first in 1951 and managed to win in 1954. "The uproar this year 's broke the choice of the competition. The west branch of the crews on the east accused of having monopolized the path. But it seems they are to reach an agreement, "said Polish. This year, the Palio is run should start with the bathroom and Piero arrival at the pier, in honor of the winners of last year, the lifeguards at Ocean Paradise. But coming from the Regulation will provide the alternative.

After years of emptiness, the Palio was revived three years ago just after its inventor, George Giannelli, historian and former journalist who along with Strong Urban Polacci would have wanted to make a race of a regional quasi- as a challenge that runs between the former maritime republics. And who knows, maybe there would also be successful, but Silvio Bianchi the yard was too strong, the lifeguards get tired of seeing him win the Palio, and so, from the years' 60, has always been done in fits and starts. Anyway, he introduced the Patini rigged. Because in the beginning were made of pine, large and heavy. The Whites if they did do a dall'Aliboni, a craftsman in the area. "

"I'll built lighter, leaner and even with the oars that flexes to get more boost from the 'water. Then the others did the same, but he continued to dominate. He was a force of nature, "says Polacci but was able to flout the last step in a marble pillar of the pier still plagued by bombings: "He and Niccolino Paradise Ocean engaged in a desperate fight. A sound of Prick dragged out by two buoys that marked the arrival. They had to turn around and while I was already past. "

From this year 's of people who surf with fake wood there will not be anymore. The new regulation prepared by the union of the bathrooms down the fort weight (not less than 90 pounds), maximum length and width of Patini. "Fair enough. In my day you could see even the ones we had to install the sliding seat. Maybe for me, the race would do with the patina of rescue: the myth of the lifeguards born above.

Posted by Mario on Blacks Florence Republic (09/08/2009)

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The mercury mine in the heart of the Apuan

STAZZEMA - Twenty years ago the boys of the village down the hill overlooking the side of the channel followed the contention, and were getting into one of the wagons and hoppers rusty hunting for snakes and lizards. The brave braved the Deep. The network of underground caves Alta Versilia gave those great adventures and discoveries of 'summer: live metal droplets, crystals of cinnabar and miracles of plots woven red and silver quartz of a field abandoned. Reveries of mercury and precious minerals that are expected.

Those same boys, in Levigliani, 300 souls nestled in the Apuan Alps in the town of Stazzema, surprised by flashes of the dark moon did not forget. "Ours is an ancient village of miners - Emiliano says Babb, President of Development and Future", the cooperative that runs guided tours of the mine site - In the last six months of the marble workers have added difficulty to the effort, giving up weekends and hours of rest, and without public funds have brought to light the mine 's Quicksilver, a new tourist route in addition to the Park of the Apuan Alps. " Here, at 870 meters 'altitude, the forces of nature have also created the abyss of' Cave of Corchia, one of the largest karst complex d 'Europe.

After many difficulties the mine ceased operations in 1970. He mentions for the first time in an act of the City of Pisa in 1153. Trucks, drills, track, picks and acetylene lamps. Two galleries illuminated for a total distance of 160 feet that leads in a remote universe, life and work of the miners played in the mannequins in old machinery and a 'iconography of the sacrifice renewed for centuries. A man pushes a car, another climbs a ladder with a basket full of stones. On the path of beams in chestnut.

"The mine is safe - says Babb - Engineers have put supports in metal, wooden beams to the left because we tell the story of the miners. It is said that the chestnut is a wood that sings. Creaked giving warnings of likely collapse. Hard life for people of few words, that in mine. As the quarry was worked by the piece, with bread and cheese ', climbing the long sloping tunnel from which the transport equipment fell on rough trails to' outside.

The field is one of the oldest 'Italy. He was never rich nor did Levigliani rich, but it is a planetary rarity: "It is for the presence of liquid mercury in its native state. Even in fields of Almaden (Spain), in which 'sailed 500 loads of mercury for the' extraction 's silver in South America, there are such high concentrations. In most crops, the metal was amended and divided the proceeds from cinnabar, an ore of mercury and sulfur disagreement shales of veins or blood is found in fire red crystal here. In the past it was used as a pigment for illuminated manuscripts, "says Andrea Dini, a researcher at 'school of geosciences at the National Research Council in Pisa.

"We were coming from small and thought to bring home treasures and matter for great stories. In fact they are originating from volcanic rocks 450 million years ago and that the land has pushed deep into the Miocene, during the formation of the Apennines, "says Emanuele Michelucci leviglianese that the raids in the creeks of the youth field has a life plan undertaking studies in geology at the University of Pisa. The mine is open every day from 9.50 to 18, tickets 6 €. It comes with a guide and a miner's helmet (info www.antrocorchia.it or 0584-778405). Now it searches Levigliani from the 'horizon to the beaches of Versilia. It is hoped that someone, someday, will be spared from the sun and decided to take a trip in the mountains.

Posted by Mario on Blacks Florence Republic (08/08/2009)

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Irons, the legend Surf Life in Versilia

Viareggio - point break, the breaking point, "is a smooth ridge which runs on the boundary that marks the 'essence of the sport and your existential fulfillment. " The 'perfect wave, the roar of four floors high, "put on your heart at rest - it comes from someone who has shot the bays of the planet does not exist. It's a day and they are looking better. "

And anyway, says Andy Irons to kids who besiege him for an autograph in Viareggio Aloha to the bathroom - where he arrived Thursday Billabong with the tour - "I 'm enjoing, I enjoy it myself, this is surfing," ensures the three-time world champion. The beaches of Versilia, the capital of surf "made in Italy" yesterday was a slab with no ripples. No exhibition, then, only advice to the fans and pictures with the sacred monster waves.

Then swarms of bikini that buzz around "The Italian is a crash, but I have my Lidy," he says showing a wedding ring. For him, slipping on the waves grew thirty Hawaiian island of Kauai, the surf is a suitcase of family and those "with which you leave the house for a trip and then not soft anymore." Son of the Pacific with a father and a brother surfers, in twenty years of career c 'he brought it all: Superman titles by discipline, a continuing challenge with Kelly Slater, another legend of the surf, and breathtaking scenery.

"The finest in Oahu, Hawahi, I was 12. I was bewildered until sunset to watch the large pipes to steal cm crashing to shore. " These are the 15, has just returned after a visit to Florence, Versilia. Yesterday morning dropped to Piazzale Michelangelo is left "speechless." "Buildings built in 1100, how is it possible?".

media industry that blend billion and athletes who engage with developments increasingly prohibitive, surfing is also possible to Irons where the sea is not a force of nature: "You can surf the large in Italy, there are good conditions to 120 days' year. Next we come back, they showed me a picture with a 'wave rocking taken by these parties. Can not escape. "


Posted by Mario on Blacks Florence Republic (08/08/2009)

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Forte dei Marmi - Protected by a white mosquito net, Mafalda surrenders to silk sheets at eight in the evening. Although known for a lifetime, Omar is sleeping in the suite next door with his two brothers Leon and Dolly. "I prefer cotton three yorkshire air conditioning," says Cristiano Merra, the tenant of the villa Gilardi, a house-museum where, among palm trees, oleanders and combed grass was invented Dog Day Village, the retirement-luxury dog \u200b\u200bone step away from Forte dei Marmi.

Noble stays that reflect the glow of holiday companies in Versilia. In the five-star resort, "everyone must feel attended to their needs and have their own space." Never a fight or menage a trois herd, "nobody here barks, yelps just feel light-ranking among vacationers. Convivial living room. " Silk, the hotel air conditioning and mosquito nets on a canine in Querceta Cugno - 1 km from golf of the fort - just a few of the features. There are no kennels but beds: wrought iron or wood. "Not only. In winter I put the covers of cashmere and turn on the heaters, "said Merra. To stay here they must fill out a form, indicate habits, diet, or if dogs are lively late risers, and even if they listen to music at a particular moment of the day. "Maffy is a placid female French bulldog, the lady makes her stay in separate rooms from Yorkshire because those three have a temper that will not tell you, make merry until late," said Merra

to stay in one of eight "cottage" is charged 35 € per day. "I know, but few make it. Ours is not a pension for all. Dog The Village is a club for 150 friends. The owners are mostly wealthy and celebrities who frequent the Fort, "but the names are top secret. The board is designed for those who are not in Versilia facilities to accommodate animals - said the director - or for those wanting a holiday four-legged friend. " Inside and outside the bungalows are installed webcams to watch over Fido from home or mobile phone. There is also a closet full of designer accessories. "If the owners wish to give their puppies a dress, a collar with a leash or maybe a leopard swarovski. They range from 35 to 85 euro, latest collection, fashion a lot, " Christian shows.

On the bowl of Billy, a 11 year old Pekingese arrived from Milan, there is installed a sensor that detects its presence. When you approach shooting a tape with a recorded voice: "Come on Billy, there's the jelly." "If you do not hear the voice of the lady became agitated and does not eat," says the director.

Pearl arrived recently. The Sultana black female Newfoundland dog, wags its tail and makes the chanteuse after shampooing. 'To avoid the stress of abandonment, the dogs are two days of testing. If no environment can not accept them, would suffer. However, there are daily visits to a veterinarian and a dog psychologist, "says Christian every year organizes the Dog day to collect offers from shelters or turning to associations dealing with cases of neglect.

In holiday village for dogs wealthy think of all Daniela Conti, the dog-sitter. Clean, restaurant and stroll. For the most exuberant in a race, "riding", 200 meters garden where all turns out. But this time the four-footed princes almost all opt for the dip in the pool. The latest is the slime-dog, a Peugeot convertible that will take guests on tour of super-luxury resort in Versilia. A few days ago he escorted Gucci, a bullmastiff millionaire oligarchs who have left Moscow with a jet in Italy private. He landed in Florence and then back to the airport accompanied by two of Cinquale puppy-walker, in practice dog-sitter, but salaries to 24 spend 24 hours in the company of dogs. The Tsar's Village Dog came with a collar studded with turquoise and two bags as swollen sails: beaty-houses, and perfume kit. Exhibitionist and also some 'trash, she curled her nose Maffy.

Posted by Mario on Blacks Florence Republic (06/08/2009)

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Forte dei Marmi - among pine trees and houses built into the simplicity of a timeless Forte, via Roma Imperiale There is a blinding light, a solid white with Palladian windows and an entrance hypermodern. Further away, at a yard away Giglioli, the trucks scramble imperial ambitions. Four Corinthian columns surmounted by a pediment will guard the privacy of matrons under a new floor porch overlooking the red waters of a small pool spa. (See renderings of the project here left )

the villas are like the children of the Volga, the oligarchs who have taken advantage of the Soviet collapse and now make Forte dei Marmi a top luxury brand for their holidays. Some are new, others were already there, but Scrooge from the East have their quirks, Entrepreneurs have understood this and so reconstruct the following architectural tastes that might distort a protected area with strict planning restrictions.

are 30 residences sold seafood to the Russians throughout the City. The big game in these years, was unleashed in Imperial Rome, the only area where the Mediterranean still erode meters to concrete. Once completed the acquisition (almost never below 4 million euro), the captains conduct a restyling that breaks the balance established in the landscape a century of history.

"In addition to classical peristyle, a style that they love it, I happened to see an estate where, the pool, have installed rocks of the Costa Smeralda with a system that pours vodka on tap. Their tastes are in fact a little 'kitsch', says Francesco Bertola, real estate agent Victoria Apuan and son of Roberto Bertola, the former right-wing mayor who started the "construction season" blocked by the plan 's current administration.

Throughout the reconstruction that takes place every Forte a mile from the sea must be reported to the office and planning the new project presented to a committee of three "wise men". "I do not believe the violations would have escaped. I have not heard of houses that have been ignored characters Fortemarmini style, "says Mayor Umberto Buratti (Pd). Not ignored, reinterpreted to escape the ax of the Committee, perhaps yes. As for the new Prince Hotel in Viale Morin. Wanted by the new owners with a Russian style "German" has not gone unnoticed.

"It looks like an old building in the Sip. So it distorts the landscape. The Russians are welcome, but let their dwellings proiettino with its own identity without having tried a synthesis with the existing one can be dangerous, "says the architect Tiziano Lera. Those who flaunt wealth, buying bottles of champagne and seize the crazy numbers for a night of boutique shopping paying with briefcases full of cash, "are in Versilia to conform, follow the path of an elite holiday. It is above all that we have to make them fall in love with our area, "adds Lera. Creator of villas at the Fort, said: "When you rebuild a house you must work with nature, use local materials, consider the colors of the mountains, the vegetation, even the function of the winds, let alone the surrounding houses."

"Compared to the early years, the Russians are less obvious. True, there was a time when their presence was booming, such as "I'll show you how much money I have, but it is not so," Bolton said yesterday. Maybe, but the nouveaux rches legends abound. Saturday is the news of a motorcyclist Versilia compensated in place with 4 thousand euro in cash by the Russian that he had invested with his jeep and immediately dileguatosi because he had no time to wait for firefighters relief.

Generosity that Forte would turn into a business. From August 20 to 28 will pay homage to the golden beach for its guests with the Festival of Russian culture, a Eurasian mythography of knowledge useful to engage new business, especially now that the housing market is in braking. From February did anyone peep into one of 110 agencies in the country to buy one of the mega mansions. An effect predictable in the context of a global crisis, a crack for the anomalous Fort, where the prices of luxury homes have soared by 14%. According to data from the real estate area, we moved from a value of 700 € 10 thousand to 12 thousand square meter to 250.

The hope is that the Russians already resident at the Fort call it a gathering friends and family interested in shopping the brick. It would be the solution to the headaches produced by the collapse of rents (less than 30%, say the real estate) and the holidays hit and run. Thus, in the firmament of the pearl lakeside, a few years ago dotted with lounges and Florence Lombard, shine new colonizers of luxury. The Versilia is accustomed to think in Cyrillic, and even to mix the cement.

Posted by Mario on Blacks Florence Republic (04/08/2009)