The money arrives for the road to the Elva valley. Today, on the last useful day before sending the dossier to Rome, the Piedmont regional council has reinserted the small municipality of the Maira valley and its road in the valley in the “Borgo dei Borghi” call of the Pnrr: a candidacy worth 20 million of Euro.
The search for a solution was guaranteed by the President of the Region Alberto Cirio himself during his visit to Val Maira in February. Also because the same Region, the month before, had instead indicated Stupinigi as the “flag project” for the tender. A proposal then shelved after a confrontation with the Ministry of Culture.
Many had protested against Stupinigi’s choice, including the Municipality of Cuneo, which in an agenda had invited “all citizens, organizations and associations” to ask Turin to use the resources of the PNRR that road. The president of the Province and mayor of Cuneo Federico Borgna had accused: “Elva is a symbol of the high lands, but it must be so even when there are resources to distribute”.
Now the choice of the Region for the recovery and reopening of the road, 9 kilometers considered an “engineering masterpiece”, dug into the rock between tunnels and alpine panoramas. But closed since 2014 due to the danger of landslides and collapses. So to reach the town, the inhabitants and tourists have to travel along another provincial road, the sp 335, which is twice as long and reaches Stroppo through the Cavalline hill.
To reopen the road to the valley there had been protests, an online petition of 9,000 subscriptions, but the problem has always been to find sufficient resources that will now arrive for an overall revitalization project of the area.