Villa Fazio
In viale Sisinna, 1. Property bound pursuant to Legislative Decree 42/2004 (DDS n. 6635 of 12.07.07). Restored it has become a youth educational center.
The history of Villa Fazio (text from: https://www.isiciliani.it/la-storia-di-villa-fazio-da-masseria-a-rudere-abbandonato)
An ancient rural farmhouse from the mid-800th century, Villa Fazio resisted the urbanization of Librino and until 96 its only visitor was a shepherd who used it as a shed to graze his sheep among the pylons of the adjacent Enel power plant. Then the renovations began: to inaugurate Villa Fazio was Giorgio Napolitano, then Minister of the Interior.
The structure, however, was not yet ready and for the Universiade of the following year, 1997, the works were not finished. Fortunately, the then Bianco quater administration listened to the requests of the neighborhood, in particular from the 'Risveglio' Cooperative in viale Castagnola, a few hundred meters away. And in collaboration with Uisp and with the Resurrection of the Lord parish, from 98 to 2002 Villa Fazio was the only true aggregation center of Librino.
The godsend, for the hundreds of kids who every day played free football, basketball, handball (and sometimes even tennis, if the net was set up well), ended with the arrival of the Scapagnini administration. Berlusconi's doctor changes references, perhaps at Uisp the sport was really too “for everyone”, and entrusts the management to the parish of Borgo Librino, then owned by Don Santino Salamone.
The decline is slow but inexorable: first the destruction of the doors, then the railings are stolen - hundreds of meters of railings - then the electric cables, then the floor, the gates to the fields. Even the wooden press of the oil mill.
Card insertion: Ignatius Caloggero
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Information contributions: Ignazio Caloggero, Web
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