It is alarm a Caravaggio (Bergamo) for the nourish that endanger the historic votive shrine of San Bartolomeo. The small chapel was built in 1600 on the occasion of the plague that caused a large number of victims in the city, buried in a common field in via Valle. Next to it was built the aedicule that has remained a votive place dear to the Caravaggini. The sacred building, owned by the parish, after years of neglect has begun to have serious stability problems. The foundations have deteriorated due to the ditch it overlooks.
In 2019 the town hall intervened at his expense to secure it. The outbreak of the pandemic forced the administration to focus on the health crisis and then on the economic crisis setting aside the recovery projects. But now a new threat has emerged. The moat is populated by otters that digging the banks increase the risk of failure of the sacred building. A danger that all Caravaggio wants to avert, however.
“These days - explains the mayor Claudio Bolandrini - talks with the Alpini group and the National Carabinieri Association resumed, which in recent years have supported the parish for liturgical celebration of St. Bartholomew. Even pro Caravaggio and the newly formed Terre di Caravaggio association have joined the call to collaborate for the restoration, involving citizens and farmers "(Corriere della Sera).