result in the suppression The book "Hell" (1992), Giorgio Bocca, opens with a description of Isernia, when he was sent from '"European" many years ago to document a riot: "He wanted to become the provincial capital of a province stony and poor, the government did not understand why. Neither do I understand .."
It describes a city still under-developed, much less modern than that of today.
Since then, in fact, Isernia has grown, but mainly it was modernized with new buildings and infrastructure, so as not to be completely consolidated in any other areas in the south. For
Isernia, although not particularly vibrant economy and a social life, certainly not from the "movida" English flu, the degradation does not exist. It 'a city of just over 20,000 souls, which heads (since 1970) of the 52 municipalities.
also the only suburb, San Lazzaro, today is more than decent. The strong Roma community in this twenty years ago there was confined in the caravan, a status that does not help their integration and the fight to the store and wear. He now lives in palaces also almost always present.
Today the province of Isernia is with the lowest crime rate, also because of the low number of inhabitants, 88 000 souls for the most part concentrated in small mountain villages and pittreschi.
This reality is likely to disappear, according to rumors regarding the impending financial maneuver of the government, but is to be verified.
Here's how the president came out of the province Luigi Mazza on:
"You can not delete with one stroke of a pen the right to exist of a Province. A right also enshrined in the Constitution, obtained at the cost of great sacrifices and struggles by our citizens.
In recent years the institution has carved a strong space. He accompanied and is implementing a major process of social and economic development .(...) I do not understand, for example, because the State, before the abolition of the provinces, did not think to delete before all those intermediate institutions that are not relevant constitutional , recovering well, substantial financial resources .(...) From Rome, however, know that we are not willing to lose what we have achieved at great sacrifice and we intend to defend our autonomy clenched teeth. "
A statement "grudging" note: on the one hand wants to defend his political office, but on the other echoes the demands of local populations, which are certainly with him when it comes to defending their place in the sun.
Isernia real risk today is a serious blow to its economy and its prestige. An intermediate solution might be to a single province in one region: the establishment of the Province of Isernia-Campobasso, assumptions adventurous but not at all far-fetched. Andrea Russo