The cycle/pedestrian path along the Tavollo river
In Gabicce Mare, the route along the Tavollo river as a rediscovery of the geographical architecture of a place.
The need to secure a stretch of river in the town of Gabicce Mare has made it possible, with the creation of an environmental walk connected at its ends with existing sections of the route, to rediscover a piece of landscape, with new views and perspectives of and on city, stitching together pieces of urban fabrics, often dissimilar in terms of morphological and typological characteristics, in a unitary path linked by the red thread of water, the natural element that caresses the entire stretch, first as a long river, then as a long dock and along the port and finally as along the sea.
Water becomes the true protagonist of the route, it guides and accompanies the visitor, with the aim of narrating the geography of the place, offering him a new vision, a physical and emotional comparison with the river, with the natural elements of the river vegetation and more in general of landscape architectural ones.
The natural light then, with its reflections that refract on the surface of the water, contributes to making the entire day's walk from dawn to dusk even more exciting.
The reading of the place with its critical issues and dissonances has made it possible through the design of a broken line to reinterpret a piece of the city, allowing it to be read from a perspective where each part, however different, precisely to have a common thread, an element orderer, it becomes a part of the other.
Then even the remains of a Roman bridge, adjacent to a concrete underpass decorated with graffiti, represent the same geographical architecture of the river and determine a change of pace in the perception of reality, representing itself as a unique and unitary landscape along the entire route of the water.
And like every route, at the crossing, at the confluence point of the two river bends, where the city changes appearance as it approaches the sea, the discreet presence of the access door appears, transparent in the surfaces that cover it, representing a land-mark to signify not only the function of the route but the compositional role in the reverse-shot reading of the city plot, from a wider view, in the distance, in which each point of the route is part of the landscape scenario allowing harmonious coexistence combination of urban fragments.
