article published in "Il Tirreno" Sunday, January 27, 2008
In recent times the figure of Pistoia nursery has taken a distorted image that has no real counterpart in the ancient activities.
We start with definitions: "Farmers enriched", "Piantatoli", "water thief" for then go to the common places: "I do not pay taxes" "They are all merchants, now grows more than anyone" "They have thousands of facilities" "We poison the water and air."
I make some points and maybe give some explanation. Unfortunately, the nursery is done mostly by farmers, people more or less accustomed to easy work from early morning until late evening. They are people who have no time to waste on talking, prefer to work rather than to argue or otherwise communicate. Farmers? I would say no, even though the word, used as a pejorative, it is instead due to a culture and a civilization that has fueled and kept Italy for centuries, with a closed economy, that is self-sufficient. Enriched? Perhaps they have been able to save or perhaps do not have time to spend and how often are spreading other categories (including other people's money ..). They have homes in the tropics or on the ski slopes, Yacht mileage, helicopters and horses. At best, they have a nice house (half occupied by offices and warehouses) and a good car (often leased) and do not go around dressed exclusively signed with precious watch.
It is absolutely not true that the nurseries do not pay taxes, pay on the property, to be exact Agricultural Income and the cadastral income (ie pay) are in special arrangements with VAT at 10% but in contrast to industry and commerce are not able to deduct anything (advertising etc.).. It 's true, there are also benefits and subsidized loans, but sin that often the money fall into the wrong hands, as we read often in the Italian news.
steal water? The water you drink from the tap in Pistoia (frankly disgusting if not treated with filters) comes from the mountain and ends in the ground from which it is pumped into the area of \u200b\u200b"Airfield". The abundance of water is one element that has encouraged the nursery industry and agriculture Pistoia. The water would come from agricultural nurseries (for which they pay taxes and the consortium Ombrone), almost everyone has the recovery of irrigation water, decanted in special ponds and then reused. No one has ever remotely thought of using water for crops. Perhaps, instead of talking about theft of water we talk about mismanagement of public waters, aqueducts with a colander and the water supply in the years that has never been adapted to the growing demand. For their part but the nurseries have applied for some time now a recovery policy.
Finally the most annoying, "They are all merchants." Over the past 10/15 years, for reasons that would difficult to explain in a few lines, politics Pistoia embraced the development of business dealt for nurseries. Not only do these activities have transformed their fields in stores / displays but they also had a say in the world rather than in the nursery trade. According to the Chamber of Commerce of Pistoia nurseries are 1,500 subscribers, "nurseries" commercial, hidden from 1,500 instead as there are a dozen or so.
This Association is available to citizens of Pistoia to answer any questions on the ancient tradition Pistoia nursery.
The origin of the Museum of Natural History is located in the broad context of reform measures proposed by Teresa for a general renovation of the University. Composed for educational instigation of Lazzaro Spallanzani, owner of the newly created chair of anthropology, the Museum began in 1771 with a core group of minerals sent as gifts by the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. The collections are formed through personal collections, purchases, exchanges and donations in 1775 were exhibited at the prestigious Central University building, where they remained, rising for over a century. In 1778, the existing sections of zoology and mineralogy, was added to comparative anatomy that began with the findings from the Cabinet of the anatomy anatomy based surgeon Antonio Scarpa.