Anfiteatro Andrzej Tomaszewski - Auditorium al Duomo Florence

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The message that I took home from my visits to the The Cracow Central Market Square Underground Museum on 17 and 25 September 2010 was this: “we must combat the risk of the deterioration of our cultural heritage caused by mass tourism by offering the ‘interpretation’ and ‘communication’ of that heritage to all visitors - not only to the world of experts and scholars - and we must achieve this by managing tourism rather than simply putting up with it; we need widespread ‘communication’ sensitive to need to promote the expansion of nonspecialist knowledge, in order to inform the nonspecialist and to help him or her to know and understand the context of a given culture as it has developed over time; a crucial opportunity for visitors from all over the world, offering them the chance to understand the roots and future prospects of the community they are encountering on their travels: thus, a contribution to knowledge and therefore to that intercultural dialogue which is so essential in today’s world.” The viewpoint is unquestionably the same as that underlying Life Beyond Tourism ® , whose roots, as we said, lie not only in Florence but also beneath the Central Market Square in Cracow. So it was interesting to see how the city of Cracow and the designer-cum-architect also subscribed to this way of putting cultural heritage to good use for promoting intercultural dialogue, offering greater opportunities for knowledge of, and thus respect for, diversity in the hope of fostering mutual understanding. Hence our cooperation with the City of Cracow, as we shall see, for the development of the Life Beyond Tourism ® ethos and of the Life Beyond Tourism ® Non Profit Portal, to contribute to furthering self-knowledge and to getting others to become acquainted with one’s own cultural roots, with one’s traditional knowledge, and with the various cultural expressions spawned by a region’s evolution over time, in a fully-fledged cultural biography designed to better illustrate the personality of a place as the result of its development through history. This is a contribution towards conjugating “heritage” with “knowledge” and with “dialogue” as we enter the third millennium; it is a contribution towards promoting a sense of respect for diversity, which is becoming increasingly necessary in this day and age. With Life Beyond Tourism ® we are rekeying towards a form of tourism based on values, values which are daily winning back precious ground from the predominant, overbearing ethos of consumer-oriented services in a world of spreading egotism. In voicing his appreciation for this ethos, indeed in expressly subscribing to it, Mayor Jacek Majchrowski was providing a proper interpretation of its spirit and illustrating it with the argument that cities such as Cracow, on the UNESCO World Heritage List, have undertaken a new mission which they must take on board in international civil society. That mission involves promoting dialogue among different cultures. This is a new responsibility which the cities on the UNESCO list must embrace today. On 14 April 2011 the city of Cracow signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with Fondazione for the Life Beyond Tourism ® Non Profit Portal in Florence. Thus Cracow is a fully-fledged member of Life Beyond Tourism ® : Encounters, Communication, Knowledge, Conservation, and Economy; and the fruit of this “flower” is a platform for the encounter of theory and practice in different cultures. This ambitious project begins with the grouping of a region’s cultural expressions - institutions and businesses - in order, ultimately, to perfect the definition of a region’s cultural biography, as I said earlier. This is the Life Beyond Tourism ® Non Profit Portal in which local government, universities and research centres are taking part. We are seeing active participation on the part of the Fondazione’s network of contacts which share the Fondazione’s aims and which share in its work, believing in the strength of Mankind’s Cultural Heritage as the medium, the vessel for full involvement in contributing to respect for diversity. For all of these reasons, the Underground Museum and Cloth Hall is considered by the Fondazione to be an answer in the spirit of Life Beyond Tourism ® that the city of Cracow, twinned with Florence, has made to the appeal launched by UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova following the UN decision to promote “cultural rapprochement”; and it was wonderful to see this museum being inaugurated in 2010, the year dedicated precisely to “cultural rapprochement”. So following my visit on 17 September, I resolved to return to Cracow also for the important cere- 70
mony the following Friday, 25 September, and it was an exhilarating moment, providing full confirmation of what I had seen and imagined in the course of my trip only seven days earlier. My gratitude goes to the City of Cracow, to its Municipal Administration headed up by such enlightened figures as Mayor Jacek Majchrowski and Deputy Mayor Tadeusz Trzmiel, together with their working group, in conducting this mission for Cracow, part of mankind’s cultural heritage, in the spirit of Life Beyond Tourism ® . My thanks also to the designer-cum-architect, my friend Andrzej Kadłuczka, who interpreted and communicated the hidden heritage in the Fondazione, making a substantive contribution to its birth and fuelling its growth, just as he was subsequently to do in the Central Market Square, the Underground Museum and Cloth Hall. Paolo Del Bianco Historical note by Florentine Architects Alessandro Dini and Władysław Krzanowski The twinning of Florence and Cracow was an event strongly encouraged by the then Mayor of Florence Lando Conti. A Republican and a lover of Giuseppe Mazzini, he believed firmly in Carlo Cattaneo’s internationalism, and as long ago as back then, when there was not much talk about it, he perceived the inevitable forging of a European Federation not only designed to regulate the economic aspects of the Community but also placed in the best condition for expressing political values and ideas. What better condition could there be than that condition which can be forged in parliament, which can freely debate mature ideas of freedom, of subsidiarity and of the triumph of the nonconfessional principles of the state? Thus spake Lando Conti. It was the spring of 1985. Only a few months later, on 10 February 1986, Lando Conti was to be barbarously assassinated by the blind and hateful terrorism that so gravely afflicted Italy at the time, while Poland laboured under Jaruzelski’s communist military dictatorship, Germany was still divided into two countries, and Czechoslovakia throbbed with its first yearnings for freedom under the leadership of writer and poet Václav Havel, who was to become the country’s first president after it became a free and independent state. In short, the Iron Curtain, maintained and strengthened by Brezhnev at all costs, was still drawn tight shut, but it had already begun to creak and groan. Poland was attempting to “open up”, becoming the most courageous nation in the European Communist Bloc and possibly even the boldest (we should not forget Solidarnosc!) because it could rely on the authoritative support of a Polish pope. And Lando Conti, a nonconfessional and a Republican as enamoured of intellectual freedom as he was of civic liberties, arguing that they had to live side by side in order to express their strength to the full, was already working hard on an expanded Europe and on the symbolic twinning of Cracow with Florence, his native city which did not always or to any great extent prove capable of fully grasping the values that Lando Conti sought to embody. Thus Florence and Cracow, twinned and historically united since the days of the Risorgimento against the Austro-Hungarian Empire, were to be finally and fraternally united in spirit and through cultural exchanges that had never entirely ceased. Thus a kind of “historic cycle” in the preferential rapport between the two citites was to be finally completed. But Florence in the late 20th century still could not understand; it pretended to forget the pact signed by Lando Conti, City President Tadeusz Salwa and Apolinary Kozub, president of the Voivodship of Cracow, in Cracow itself in April 1985. This meant that that “lopsided pact” was perfected only twenty years later, in 2005, thanks to the generous and tireless work of Paolo Del Bianco and of the Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco ® which he chairs, and to the interest of Councillor Eugenio Giani – belatedly, in the view of those such as architects Alessandro Dini and Władysław Krzanowski, both architects who worked hand-in-glove with Lando Conti to turn the idea into a reality, with the support of the Order of Architects of Cracow – chaired at the time by Architect Andrzej Wyzykowski – and precisely by Professor Andrzej Kadłuczka, then a young architect and lecturer at the Cracow Polytechnic, as well as by numerous architects driven by a sincere European spirit which, at that time, was premature for them too, yet none the less aware for all that. 71
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