Hotel San Calogero has been inaugurated and renovated twice but has never been opened to the public due to an error in the project. And today, adapting it to legal standards would be too expensive. Three hundred beds, five floors, rooms with all amenities, restaurant, stunning views. And above all the thermal stoves, miraculous to treat joint pains. For the Sicilian Region the city of Sciacca could have been the Abano del Sud, but has managed to give birth only to a mess that combines incompetence, negligence and malaburocracy. A mess of which the Grand Hotel San Calogero is the emblem. The ho
Hotel San Calogero has been inaugurated and renovated twice but has never been opened to the public due to an error in the project. And today, adapting it to legal standards would be too expensive. Three hundred beds, five floors, rooms with all amenities, restaurant, stunning views. And above all the thermal stoves, miraculous to treat joint pains. For the Sicilian Region the city of Sciacca could have been the Abano del Sud, but has managed to give birth only to a mess that combines incompetence, negligence and malaburocracy. A mess of which the Grand Hotel San Calogero is the emblem. The hotel complex has just turned 60, and in fact is the oldest unfinished public in Italy. Older than the San Bartolomeo hospital in Galdo, in the province of Benevento, started 53 years ago and never finished. Since the opening of the building site in 1954, the Sciacca hotel has never been opened to the public for just one day, despite two renovations and as many inaugurations. The works for its construction last for almost forty years. It was completed in the early 1980s, but management tenure was defined ten years later. In the meantime the hotel went into ruin and the region proceeds with a first renovation. It is 1993, we proceed with the inauguration. The first. Furniture is still missing, but it does not matter because the opening will have to slip: a serious error in the project is discovered. The drains are not connected to the city sewage collector, so no health authorizations, mandatory by law. An error that will not only force the hotel to remain closed, but that in 2010 to the Sicily Region will cost 800 thousand euros to close the dispute with the cooperative "La Montagnola", which was entrusted with the management of the complex.
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