It is one of the most characteristic images of Naples: the glimpse of a narrow alley with the clothes hanging on the ropes suspended from one balcony to another. A “postcard” that we had feared we would have to do without, visiting Naples: according to the provisions on Decor and Safety of the new Regulation, the ban on hang out the laundry “where it causes dripping” and, therefore, discomfort for those who pass under the tight ropes.
But now we know that the part dedicated to urban decoration was deleted from the first draft of the new Urban Safety Regulations of the Municipality: the danger has escaped.
The text said that to “protect public hygiene and decorum” it was necessary to prohibit a practice that is part of the Neapolitan tradition: “hanging or hanging linen, cloths, clothes and the like outside private places, as well as on the windows, on the terraces and balconies overlooking the public street when this causes dripping on the public area” .
A prospect that has inevitably heated the minds and raised the debate. It was also launched the hashtag #iostendoproposed by the journalist and blogger Laura Guerra, who wondered if it was possible, with expensive energy, to also have to buy a dryer.
The former mayor Luigi De Magistris had commented sarcastically: «The mayor who is not here at last beats a blow forbids hanging clothes on the balconies and windows of Naples and forbids playing football. This is his vision of the city. But Manfredi is o ver or do we?. The truth is that Naples does not go down well with him, as well as with his political leader De Luca. Naples is a big piece of the heart, it is not an armchair to be warmed up to put in place the wallet and the family with the quadrupling of the salary and manage in the rooms of the moral and political compromise the swag of the scandalous pact for Naples “.
Source: Vanity Fair
