District 71

Torino lost its symbol, Giancarlo, a local historic city, Arci, arch Murazzi place not place just below the street level of the central streets, a few meters from one of the finest squares in Europe, overlooking the river and straining toward the hills. A fire destroyed last night. Return, they say. We hope so: in that place, that accompanied the el’albeggiare many nights, you are consumed and not personal stories, have mixed feeling and sometimes the lives of persons known and unknown at that place they found, and were and built, something beyond everyday things that repel and move away, and that does not proceed in that place and joined approached. A long history, starting in the mid-eighties, who has gone through the change of a whole city. A history of brutality, music, crime, art, shop and want to change. Local newspapers have quoted the famous names that have frequented the place: musicians, jazz musicians, writers, politicians and entrepreneurs unexpected. On the edge dell’agiografia: even if that place does not place the word would never have nationality. A place that does not proceed in its peculiarity, with its history, the better moods of this city that I love desperately since the case I gave birth to us, as well as its contradictions cursed. Years ago, when blogs did not exist and many of my evenings ended there, had begun work to rebuild the stories of that place does not proceed, a work never completed and which remain, however, many memories, beautiful, meetings and evenings. And excerpts of interviews that I found and that I copy below.
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