Claudio Del Frate
BERGAMO - How to Vienna in the summer of 1683 when the Ottoman army of Kara Mustafa laid siege to the city walls. Worse, in Bergamo, the Turks have already penetrated into the Upper City, but instead of brandishing scimitars a different weapon, a sandwich filled with shavings of beef. And just like in Vienna in 1683, has already moved the leader Jan Sobieski, who here has the kind of look Silvia Lanzani, architect, professor at the Polytechnic and City Council of the Northern League.
The last act of confrontation between immigrant Northern League and has as its object kebab, the declination of the Middle Eastern fast food. A small kebab stands opened its doors in the Footwear Market Square, the heart of medieval Bergamo. "A presence that has nothing to do with the image and traditions of the old town" so Silvia Lanzani set fire to the closure of a small shop dust. "Well, all advertising for my shop," he rubs his hands Gasri Sami, Tunisia, owner of the shop.
say that we are faced with the nth argument from the Northern League hanged under the pretext of bothering to immigrants is reductive: the proof is that the "war gastronomic 'in Bergamo has resulted in the opening of two blogs opposite sign ("Save the kebab High City" against "closed walls") and patronized. Sign that the reactions to historical changes also pass by eating habits. The battle at an end in itself, because the law is all part of the Sami Gasri: nothing prevents you to open that type of exercise center, the cards are in order and nothing will even the proposal made by the League in the Region to " expel "the kebab from the old town, which is unlikely to have retrospective effect.
"Everything except that I would take the charge of xenophobia - attacks Silvia Lanzani - that my battle is not against foreign cuisine. Those places I are fine, but not in old city, there must be adhered to the historical and traditional places and also their function. Bergamo Alta is not a tourist park, is a neighborhood where 5,000 people still live and where essential services are likely to disappear. I make war on kebabs as well as I would a McDonald's, a store of trinkets. Our centers are not historical Marrakech and take care that a proposal such as ours have also presented in Lucca in Tuscany. "
The last act of confrontation between immigrant Northern League and has as its object kebab, the declination of the Middle Eastern fast food. A small kebab stands opened its doors in the Footwear Market Square, the heart of medieval Bergamo. "A presence that has nothing to do with the image and traditions of the old town" so Silvia Lanzani set fire to the closure of a small shop dust. "Well, all advertising for my shop," he rubs his hands Gasri Sami, Tunisia, owner of the shop.
say that we are faced with the nth argument from the Northern League hanged under the pretext of bothering to immigrants is reductive: the proof is that the "war gastronomic 'in Bergamo has resulted in the opening of two blogs opposite sign ("Save the kebab High City" against "closed walls") and patronized. Sign that the reactions to historical changes also pass by eating habits. The battle at an end in itself, because the law is all part of the Sami Gasri: nothing prevents you to open that type of exercise center, the cards are in order and nothing will even the proposal made by the League in the Region to " expel "the kebab from the old town, which is unlikely to have retrospective effect.
"Everything except that I would take the charge of xenophobia - attacks Silvia Lanzani - that my battle is not against foreign cuisine. Those places I are fine, but not in old city, there must be adhered to the historical and traditional places and also their function. Bergamo Alta is not a tourist park, is a neighborhood where 5,000 people still live and where essential services are likely to disappear. I make war on kebabs as well as I would a McDonald's, a store of trinkets. Our centers are not historical Marrakech and take care that a proposal such as ours have also presented in Lucca in Tuscany. "
remains to be seen if Silvia Lanzani is satisfied with the turn that took the discussion a bit 'too much' curve curve north against the south. " "The diatribe between communists and members of the League does not interest me - he said - and indeed I have spoken more as an architect and resident of Upper Town that as the League. " Piazza Mercato delle Scarpe
In the little kebabs of contention remains closed during these days: the boy committed to move forward and had to return to Tunisia for family reasons, but in the Santa Caterina - Bergamo Bassa - Sami Gasri laughs from behind the the other counter kebab which he owns. The menu, it must be said, is anything but fundamentalist and Arabic in addition to the sandwich also offers burgers, stuffed olives, potato chips and even beer. "This controversy is doing just a lot of free publicity for my business - argues - the more you talk and I will more money. " But then the sarcasm gives way to bitterness: "Tell me where all the problems we have in Italy and in Bergamo, the scandal has to be my little shop of two meters by two. If my sandwiches are not okay, shut up, but if I have many customers, it means that my work is appreciated. " And maybe a sign of peace, you can also get a plate of polenta and kebabs.
In the little kebabs of contention remains closed during these days: the boy committed to move forward and had to return to Tunisia for family reasons, but in the Santa Caterina - Bergamo Bassa - Sami Gasri laughs from behind the the other counter kebab which he owns. The menu, it must be said, is anything but fundamentalist and Arabic in addition to the sandwich also offers burgers, stuffed olives, potato chips and even beer. "This controversy is doing just a lot of free publicity for my business - argues - the more you talk and I will more money. " But then the sarcasm gives way to bitterness: "Tell me where all the problems we have in Italy and in Bergamo, the scandal has to be my little shop of two meters by two. If my sandwiches are not okay, shut up, but if I have many customers, it means that my work is appreciated. " And maybe a sign of peace, you can also get a plate of polenta and kebabs.
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