Mama Mia, what a chaos! After shameful errors on street plates, the cultural capital of Italy came across the next malfunction in 2025: Canal lids were accidentally removed. Now employees with metal detectors are looking for and leaving fresh crater behind. Residents increase the alarm: “Life -threatening!”
Agrigento, the Italian capital of culture in 2025, again gets the headlines, but not, as hoped, with a cultural splendor, but with a curious infrastructure faux pass. In the hectic asphalt of the streets to beautify the city for a visit to the president and the official opening, dozens of channel cover were quickly transferred. The episode? A chaotic search game: employees had to move with metal detectors to find the missing covers under the bitumen.
This bizarre campaign offers spot on social media. “High -tech for the Gully lid”, users jokes, while videos from employees go viral those graves with metal detectors in freshly paved roads. The result? New gaps that had just been removed. The responsible engineering agency, the “Genio Civile”, tried to justify a technical problem and spoke about a technical problem: the lids of the Gully were “not geo -referred” – a technical term that caused a head shaking for many residents.
Residents warn each other for the holes
Some canal covers have now been discovered, but leave dangerous holes or sudden differences in levels in the asphalt. The care for accidents is growing – especially in a city that is now exposed to the critical eyes of visitors and tourists. In the meantime, the residents also warn themselves in local Facebook groups of the dangerous circumstances. In a message with a photo of the hole in the asphalt it says: “Via Empedocle, next to the bakery … I would put a warning board there … There are more than five centimeters height difference! Someone can really hurt.
Grammatical errors on drawing to the capital of culture
But this incident is only the last chapter in a number of malfunctions. Agrigento had previously given frown when embarrassing grammatical errors were found on official information boards such as the Cultural Capital. Moreover, there is the internal power struggle for the management of the foundation, namely the coordination of the program of “Agrigento Capitale”. Three responsible persons have been replaced in just a few months. Recently the cultural economist Giiacomo Minio resigned – with pressure from regional President Rosario Schifani.
But there is also criticism of content. The program of the capital of culture has so far remained vague, concrete agreements and artist names. Partners such as the island of Lampedusa, who still played a central role in the application file, complain about lack of integration. While Agrigento continues to try to repair the damage to its image, the path to the capital of culture remains bumpy through international rank – literally and figuratively.
Source: Krone
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