Many ministers, government officials and the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, are in L'Aquila and Abruzzo these days for the commemorations of the 309 victims linked to the 14th anniversary of the 2009 earthquake but also for other events in the region.
Today in the regional capital, the Prime Minister and the President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, are arriving, who will participate in the 6 pm mass in the church of Santa Maria del Suffragio, known as Anime Sante, part of the busy program in memory of the tragic earthquake and of the victims caused by the quake of April 6, 2009.
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L'Aquila, 14 years ago the earthquake, the day of remembrance - Specials
THE SPECIAL - April 6, 14 years ago the earthquake.
The commemorations: the premier and the president of the Senate at 6 pm in the church of Santa Maria del Suffragio, then the torchlight vigil in memory of the victims and the 309 tolls © Ansa
Bernini: Athenaeum part of the city's rebirth
- The Minister of University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini opened the inauguration ceremony of the 2022-2023 academic year of the University of L'Aquila.
A ceremony that coincides with the 14th anniversary of the earthquake of April 6, 2009. "We all know the importance of this day - he said arriving in L'Aquila -. We are on the fourteenth anniversary of a dramatic event that changed forever, unfortunately, the face of L'Aquila, and has left a memory throughout Italy that we are amending thanks to the great, great strength of the work that L'Aquila has done on itself".
"And I must say - she underlined - that the University is a representation of this work". "Just now with the mayor, Pierluigi Biondi,
we were talking about a new horizontal student residence, a wonderful project that will take place here in L'Aquila, a sports center in one of the areas that hosted the displaced.
Between now and 2026 we have many opportunities in which the University of L'Aquila has shown interest", added Bernini.
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Living in the center of L'Aquila, 14 years after another construction site - Chronicle
The private reconstruction proceeds, the public one is further behind.
The Municipality: 'The problem is the timing of the funding'.
The school plan.
Traders ask for parking spaces.
Residents: 'Now we need social reconstruction' - Meloni and La Russa at Mass on April 5 THE SPECIAL - 14 years after the earthquake (ANSA)
