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L’ex Palazzo Della Motta

Fino a una quarantina di anni fa, a Bari ad angolo tra corso Vittorio Emanuele e corso Cavour, sorgeva un palazzo di dodici piani, conosciuto da tutti come il «grattacielo della Motta». In cima a questo edificio risplendeva la grande – e un po’ pacchiana– insegna luminosa al neon della famosa marca di dolciumi milanese che, al piano terra e al primo piano di questo palazzo, aveva aperto un grande bar e un ristorante, che erano diventati dei veri e propri punti di riferimento per i cittadini baresi.

Il «grattacielo» era stato costruito alla fine degli anni Cinquanta sulle macerie di un palazzo di soli due piani che ospitava una storica marca locale di caffè.

Giudicato da molti come il simbolo delle «banditesche imprese di speculazione edilizia» (B. Zevi, Cronache di architettura) che sfigurarono il centro murattiano di Bari, questo palazzo riassume bene quella provinciale voglia dei baresi di “scimmiottare” le grandi città del Nord. Eppure quando l’insegna della Motta fu tolta e i primi due piani dell’edificio, dopo decenni di abbandono, furono rilevati da una nota multinazionale americana di fast food, molti hanno rimpianto la pacchiana luce al neon che illuminava con la sua fredda luce rossa le notti del quartiere murattiano.

The former Palazzo Motta

Until about forty years ago in Bari, the twelve-story building located at the corner of Corso Vittorio Emanuele and Corso Cavour was known to everyone as “the Motta skyscraper”. At the top of it there was the big – and a little garish – neon sign of the famous Milan candy brand, which had started a large bar and a restaurant on the building ground floor and first floor, real reference points for Bari citizens.

The “skyscraper” was built in the late Fifties on the ruins of a two-story building that hosted a historic local coffee brand. Although described as the symbol of the “banditesche imprese di speculazione edilizia” that spoilt the Murat district in Bari, it had become an urban point of reference (B. Zevi, Cronache di architettura).

When the Motta sign was removed and the first two floors of the building, after having been abandoned for decades, were taken over by a well-known American fast food restaurant multinational, a lot of people regretted the garish neon light that used to light up the Murat district nights with its cold red light.

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