MORE SNOW IN THE CITY '
It snowed again last night and this morning, heart skipped a beat.
Esco half afternoon, after having performed the tedious tasks of Saturday morning and I obey the usual reminder that leads me to Straccis. Nothing to do: I could go somewhere else, in any other area of \u200b\u200bthis city, which retains the atmosphere of the century noble Habsburg lapsed. I like his decent buildings, palm trees in the gardens, the little 'melancholy of decay and faded roses of winter. But the legs go north, towards that anonymous cross between Via and Via Casale Brigade Brigade Pavia, where he began the "ghetto".
Just take the quick descent to Viale Colombo, appear the heights of Calvary, where the snow reveals terraces and small clearings, otherwise invisible. The sky is sponge compact ash and acacia veiled by a hazy fog that shrivels the heart. The miasma of the Horn take the throat and Columbus Avenue is deserted. Squalid buildings ocher, rust and pistachio, built in the fifties for the workers in blue overalls stained with grease, another village where there was segregation of the two thousand workers in the factories Ritter.
I smell the fifties, dairies with flypaper hanging from the ceiling and scooters parked under the house. I do not know why, but I feel at home. Inside the dusty porches of apartment buildings aged and ill, there are spiders of wrought iron and ceramic medallions with the image of the Good Pope. There are no more Workers in blue overalls and wives with the robes from home. Today, the North African ghetto welcomes families and Nigerians that the day of the Manzano swallows in some factory, or shipped through the streets with a bag on his back to dispose of paper towels and linens.
A few hundred meters, the family houses of the sixties marked the end of the "ghetto". Reappearance of gardens and villas of the early-middle-class Gorizia dignified and sleepy to survive itself.
The white blanket has become a dirty and slippery glaze and rain sad artificial snow.
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