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Genoa a year later
August 14th 2018 11:36 am, Morandi Bridge, the highway viaduct over the Polcevera river, collapsed.
43 people died and hundreds were displaced. Liguria region was already at its knees due to frequent floods and to the economic crisis that has been impacting it for decades. This sudden void has also erased any road regional connections.
During the following months, controlled demolitions of no-usable buildings and the June 28th 2019 explosion of the remaining stand of the Morandi bridge, they have finally crumbled the main points of reference for entire Genoese generations. Val Polcevera landscape, a mountain territory characterised by high overbuilding as result of post war development, is now full immersed in a huge construction site to demolish and rebuild a new bridge in record time
From the day after the Morandi Bridge collapse, the city of Genoa and all surroundings have suffered enormous discomfort, that still continues 12 months later. Due to that tragic event, citizens, business activities and territory had been unavoidably impacted in many ways.