AFTER THE RENZI – HOLLANDE SUMMIT THE CITY QUESTIONS THE CLOSED AND FORTIFIED SQUARE

The Italy-France summit having ended without any particular problems, the newspaper pages dwelt partly on the effect of the closed and fortified square. The Gazzettino, for example, said that the ‘Renaissance’ effect of the square did not please everyone. Some business people whose businesses were in the red zone complained about the lack of customers, while the comment of Enrico Pellegrini, representative of the Musei Civici Filcams Cgil, was more serious. He questioned, again in the pages of the Gazzettino, the closing of the Doge’s Palace and the Clock Tower to the public, inviting the prime minister Matteo Renzi to choose a different venue for such important summits. Alberto Nardi, president of the Associazione Piazza San Marco, however, was satisfied. He told the local press that he had not received any particular complaints from business people and ‘moreover, to see the square go back to being Renaissance seems for a moment to go back to a forgotten normality’.