Naples, the Cippo di Forcella reduced to a garbage dump

Naples, the Cippo di Forcella reduced to a garbage dump. Borrelli: “Cleaning required.”

The “Cippo a Forcella”, located in Piazza Calenda, is part of the oldest remains of the city of Naples. As most scholars believe, it dates back to the 3rd century BC and would be made up of stones that are part of the Greek-era city walls of ancient Neapolis: it could be the ruins of the Porta Herculanensis (later called Porta Furcilla or Furcillensis).

The history and its hidden beauties, however, evidently do not make a breach in everyone's heart. For some, in fact, that is just a pile of stones in front of the Trianon Theater so much so that the remains have been transformed into a sort of garbage dump, as documented by the Regional Councilor of Europa Verde Francesco Emilio Borrelli.

"As it happens with the Greek remains in Piazza Bellini, these in Forcella have also been transformed into a garbage dump. A symptom of a rampant incivility that is tarnishing 2500 years of history and obscuring unique beauties in the world. They say they love Naples, they get tattoos depicting Vesuvius, Castel Nuovo, the words 'I live to defend you' and then they behave as if they were in a pigsty, demonstrating that they don't know how to defend anything at all.

This is the part of the population that we fight and detest. We have requested a cleaning intervention for the Forcella memorial stone but the municipal administration must now declare war on the uncivilized and fight to protect our historical heritage.”– declared Borrelli.