Milan, Porta Venezia, a stone’s throw from the Montanelli gardens. There is a place that escapes any definition. Balera, a meeting place for retirees for the smooth, “gambling den” to challenge Maurizio Cattelan in Burraco, or for a dinner based on lasagna and fried dumplings.
Sala Venezia, Combatants and Veterans Club, one of the most beloved historical recreational places in Milan before the pandemic put us on forced stand-by. But what time rischia to disappear to become an archive of the police headquarters.
The manager (since 1987) Antonio Di Furia, surrounded by his family, has received an eviction from the State Property Agency which will be operational from 8 April.
It is not news that leaves you indifferent. So much so that in a few minutes a petition was launched on Change.org that “asks to save her”. Petition that bounces from social to social, increasing in number at a constant rate. To sign it, everyone. Retired and famous, boys and boogie woogie fans. Because in the Sala Venezia there has always been space for everyone.
“Thanks to Sala Venezia, I discovered that the elderly in dancing are far more agile and quicker than the young,” he explains Maurizio Cattelan. “In the Sala Venezia I found the only man who was able to guide me in the dance, Mr. Gianni, a war veteran who taught me all the tricks of boogie woogie”, he continues Victoria Cabello.
Also passionate about dance hall Arisa: «In the Venezia room I sang out loud, danced and found many friends. Transforming a place of culture and aggregation into an archive would be an unacceptable wound for a city that wants to try again to be together in the most authentic way possible ». In the Sala Venezia he also started cooking Carlo Cracco: «My memory is in the kitchen with Mrs. Rita with whom I prepared a lasagna for a group of friends and where I tasted one of the best pasta and beans».
“We ask for a solution to the State Property Agency, the Milan Police Headquarters, the Lombardy Region in the person of the President Attilio Fontana and the Municipality of Milan in the person of the Mayor Beppe Sala”, reads the petition. In September 2018, di Furia had sent an application for renewal of the concession but remained unanswered. “In December 2019 I realized that the Hall was the subject of a notice published by the State Property Agency which was also looking for other potential interested parties”, he says, embittered. No consequence emerges from the announcement, but in June 2020 he received a “note to initiate the procedure for the release of state-owned spaces at the Police Headquarters”.
Ora Di Furia presented appeal to the Tar. And he knows it is not a “war” he will fight alone.
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