Cities like dreams, are constructed
desires and fears,
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
was once a city that would meet soon thousand years. At least that decided some heroes of the place. While the academic debate about its origin is alive, and it seems quite likely that before birth and was born, and even before there had been a place and the Iberian and Roman settlement called Iliberri. In any case, many centuries ago that the fruit of the pomegranate gave its name, Granada. A name to pronounce so happy that sparkle in the mouth rubies and poppies.
desires and fears,
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
was once a city that would meet soon thousand years. At least that decided some heroes of the place. While the academic debate about its origin is alive, and it seems quite likely that before birth and was born, and even before there had been a place and the Iberian and Roman settlement called Iliberri. In any case, many centuries ago that the fruit of the pomegranate gave its name, Granada. A name to pronounce so happy that sparkle in the mouth rubies and poppies.
The Granada today retains in her bosom pearls and empty, poets and doctors, teachers and language lovers, public wasteland and courtyards, loss and forgetting, amalgamated by a political elite that feeds with a drop of milk everyday its real power. A complete food supplied in the appropriate dosage numbs the mind and prevents death. Granada today The past lives of mortgaging the future. A remote and ancient past evoked in postcards for tourists, as in Italo Calvino Maurilia "do not represent Maurilia as it was, but to another city who happened to be called Maurilia like this." The fact is that the inhabitants of Granada is increasingly more difficult to recognize Granada in Granada. Tourists do not have that problem, arrive at Albayzín and the Alhambra, walk along the Carrera del Darro, minibuses up to the Sacromonte night, and go fast, like all tourists in the world, to count with the graphic testimony of his thousand digital photos, which were in a place like Granada.
While all this happens, the people of the city are immersed daily in another city. In the city daily there are girls working early risers of pockets for 600 euros, grandmothers waiting for a bus with infinite patience, young people aware of the lightness of your life, tear with their bikes a peace that no longer exists, circumspect adults inside of his car, breathing the miasma girls a persistent pollution, mothers with their babies are not mature trees on the roofs of parking, athletes have to play paddle tennis and twelve euros per hour, people from the neighborhood which have to like golf but do not want to, art students who dream Berlin neighborhood merchants see their businesses splash veguero am frightened by the large commercial.
While all this happens, a few councilors met in municipal halls urged by their own indolence to agree on a few proposals worthy of the millennial celebration. Among the possible proposals million chose nineteen. "Morning sunshine and good weather, to say the classic Total loss. Granada will be World Capital Poetry Festival City, will celebrate the World Judo Championships and end up here the Tour of Spain. Granada will Albaycín rehabilitated, its center will be declared a World Heritage Site, and will focus on disadvantaged areas, Zona Norte to the head. Granada will Bienal de Flamenco and Andalusian music and Sephardic, there will be a Congress of History of the Kingdom of Granada, Culture Summit and Millennium Technology Prize. You end up outstanding infrastructure. To do all this and more, there will be lots and lots and lots of participation. Pomp and fireworks that are pleasing to the city drop of milk which give rise to propose more ideas for the Millennium. This could suggest a Congress Organisers Festivals of Music and Dance, World Falconry (which will be very Nazari), an Event of Economists for the Millennium, a meeting of Historical Fiction Novelists Specialist, World Championships and Esoteric Philosophy Arabian, and much more, and only time.
Few voices have been heard, not criticizing the proposals, which we may like it or not, because they all seem worthy has millennium or not, but asking a celebration more reflective, more consistent, to raise goals act on the real problems city \u200b\u200band its people. Voices warn that you can not start the house through the roof, which needs a commitment of state. Voices raised why we celebrate, why we celebrate and what we celebrate. Voices that define social, economic and environmental view to a more sustainable city. Voices that bring to light the best of what past generations left us, as the Vega, to bequeath to our sons and daughters the best of our generation. Mobility, protection of agricultural environment and landscape, environmental infrastructure, cultural, tourist, social, educational and sporting activities, which regenerate tissue and urban life, to promote civility and tolerance, are quite objective necessary. The pomp and festivities will follow, no doubt it.
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