Treviso, Tino Zandigiacomi, historical voice of city renewal, has died

He was 92 years old. He founded “Civil commitment”. A life spent for a better city and a more liveable territory.

TREVISO. Mourning in the city for the death today of Tino Zandigiacom, historical voice of city renewal, lover of history and urban planning, of territorial problems, and always a supporter of social and urban development that takes into account the collective well-being. He was 92 years old.

Zandigiacomi after high school had started studying architecture, a great passion of his, but he had never graduated. he joined the family business as a young man, Sape, and worked there until his retirement as an executive but never forgetting his love and “very strong interest” for urban history and for the evolution of his city, Treviso, and its territory .

When the Resistance ended, Tino was 16 years old and immediately entered the political debate, approaching the Pci with his sister Ninetta Zandigiacomi. A long militancy that then translated into the civic left of the city by engaging himself in the issues dear to him with the foundation of the association “Civil commitment” of which he was president and in which he actively participated with friends and professionals of the city such as the engineer Giovanni Negro who remembers him as «a father and a teacher. A friend, a guide. We will miss his optimism and his confidence in the possibility of creating a more just and inclusive society ». with him the former councilor for culture of Treviso Luciano Franchin. “A man of great determination and political lucidity, who spent years with youthful enthusiasm for the city” he remembers Gigi Calessocompanion of battles.

Zandigiacomi passed away on Thursday evening following an illness that had recently worsened. He leaves his wife Clara, his brother Berto Zandigiacomianother historical voice of the city and former president of Italia Nostraher sister Ninetta who lives in Rome and five nephews and great nephews.

The lay funeral will be held earlier this week, probably on Tuesday.

“He was a shy person, despite his public commitment, but shy for him meant being extremely respectful of others”, his brother Berto remembers him moved.