“Four years ago, when I acquired the concession with a municipal tender, I was happy as if I had scored a decisive goal.” Go back in the memories Lorenzo Scarafoni, born in 65, debut in Serie A on 9 May 1982, in Rome-Ascoli, when Carletto Mazzone, who coached the Marche, called him on the field with eight minutes from the end. Scarafoni, bomber with 102 career goals, 84 appearances in Serie A and 260 in Serie B with important jerseys such as those of Ascoli, Triestina and Palermo and a call in the Italy Under 21.
They called him Valdano, after the Argentine world champion, for his ability to be a striker and to help defend. For four years he has decided to change his life and to manage a beach, in Marina di Altidona, in the Fermano area: «An investment that has cost me about four hundred thousand euros so far – he says -: I have progressed gradually, year by year. First the beach and the kiosk, then the gazebos and this year the construction of the main structure of 100 square meters and of the beach cabins for another 32 “.
The project
An entrepreneurial project started with his wife Elena, with whom he married by the sea, a stone’s throw from Bagni Sant’Andrea, what has become his chalet; with her he created a small company, which now risks having no future after the sentence of the Council of State: “This stop is pure folly, it popped up overnight and I hope it will be reviewed soon, perhaps providing for a right of pre-emption to those who are already concessionaires. In the meantime, thinking about the renewal of the concession until 2033, I had regularly paid the charges », is the former bomber’s regret. There are two bathing concessions currently active, “whose value had already collapsed when the Bolkestein problem materialized”.
Securing
Ubaldi Costruzioni of Maltignano is working on that stretch of sea (after months lost in technical slowdowns and appeals to the TAR, ed.), Thanks to an agreement between the municipality of Altidona, the Marche Region and Rfi for the safety of the north coast and, in particular, of the railway line, a public investment of 3 million to create protective cliffs that will allow the creation of a new stretch of beach, which by spring will also lead to having three kilometers of the available one, with at least another 8 concessions that would have gone a tender, and the strengthening of the Marina di Altidona-Marina Palmense section of the Adriatic cycle route.
The “in” beach of Campofilone
Just under two thousand inhabitants and an economy based on two pillars: the production of macaroni and seaside tourism. In summary, this is Campofilone, which in recent years has become the most “in” beach in Fermano, “thanks to the investments of the seven concessionaires, which also means seven families and dozens of other people who reinforce their staff in the summer”, says the mayor Gabriele Cannella. “We have put a sold out summer behind us – he adds – and the goal, before the sentence of the Council of State, was to open tenders for other bathing concessions to increase the receptivity of the beach, as foreseen in the municipal beach plan. “.