Half a century has passed since the birth of the Regions.
It was July 6, 1970 when the Liguria Regional Council met for the first time.
In the same year Genoa was devastated by one of the most tragic floods in its history.
The Years of Lead will follow, the crisis of the state industry, the development of the service sector, the growth of the port, the collapse of the Morandi bridge and the reconstruction of the viaduct, up to the covid.
The events of these 50 years are retraced through the exhibition 'Our first 50 years' created by the Regional Council and the Regional Council in collaboration with ANSA.
The exhibition will be inaugurated on 1 October (it will remain open until 8) in the Sala delle Grida of the Palazzo della Borsa in Genoa.
On the same occasion, constitutionalists will speak at the conference "Liguria Region: 1970-2020 our first 50 years".
A journey through time through the images of news stories and customs that have become icons, such as the murder of the delivery boy Alessandro Floris, the election of Sandro Pertini as President of the Republic, the snow of the century in 1985, the death of Fabrizio De André, the 2001 G8, the collapse of the Morandi bridge and the reconstruction of the Genoa San Giorgio viaduct.
Photos accompanied by the legislative action of the Region that has characterized from culture to the environment, from rights to the economy up to the fight against covid.
"The health emergency has also shown the fundamental function of the Regions, which from north to south and without distinction of a political nature have worked to restart the country and ensure adequate care for all. With this exhibition we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the organization. we retrace what has been, but it is also an incentive to look to the future, thinking of greater autonomy ", says president Giovanni Toti.
It was the Hall of Tapestries of Palazzo Doria Spinola that baptized the Regional Council, more than twenty years later than the Constitution provides.
The exhibition does not have the ambition to tell all the events that have taken place in 50 years, but it provides a glimpse of this period.
You can perceive the changes in customs, the social and industrial transformations.
We remember the decline of the state industry and the consequent employment crisis, the worsening of environmental problems, up to the rediscovery of the richness of the cultural and naturalistic heritage, driving a new economy that places quality tourism at the center.
The Cinque Terre, Porto Venere, the islands of Tino and Tinetto in 1997 were the first area of Liguria to enter the list of World Heritage Sites drawn up by Unesco.
It captures the international echo of events that have marked Liguria: the floods, the explosion of the oil tanker Haven, Euroflora, the concerts of Sinatra and Springsteen, the Colombiadi and Genoa, European capital of culture, the G8, the migrants stranded in Ventimiglia.
All this is accompanied by the description of the legislative part carried out by the Regional Council on the initiative of the junta and the commissions.
Fifty years of government with 2152 laws approved by the legislative assembly on issues such as health, urban planning, economic development or training, in which every visitor can find the reflection of the evolution of Ligurian society, its customs and its productive fabric.
From the beginning with the first urban planning provision in 1972, to the birth of the Filse financial institution in 1973, the first law for health protection in the workplace in 1974, the first law in favor of the disabled in 1975, the birth of the consultants in 1976 , up to the most recent years with the law to encourage separate waste collection in 2015, measures against air pollution in 2017, the responses to the collapse of the Morandi bridge and the coronavirus emergency.
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