We present a preview of an excerpt of the new playing field "urban" ... THE AIRPORT SEAPLANE "IVO MONTI" on the territory of cagnano Varano Varano lakeside setting in the beautiful Gargano. Here you are some curiosities Historical Idroscalo by Maria Teresa Rauzino: "Who runs the road that leads to Lake Cagnano Varano, is surprised seeing a village deserted on the shore: it is the former station Seaplanes" Ivo Monti. "pilot training center , center for the rehabilitation and repair of hydroplanes and light vehicles of attack, the seaplane base of Saint Nicholas is remembered as a military base of great strategic importance for the control of the Dalmatian coast. Numerous flights, day and night, to explore curzolane the islands and for the relief effort in the Adriatic. The military history of the settlement was rebuilt by Marie Antoinette Ferrante in the volume of war memoirs dall'Idroscalo (Edizioni the canopy, Foggia). The documents obtained by the author in the archives of the Navy of Rome, and used in key narrative, tracing the process of the Station during the years of WWI. In particular, Ferrante recalls the events for the setting: the work of construction, the use of the first housing, military organization, the problems that the admiral and the commander Thaon de Revel Ghe had to resolve, given the unfavorable characteristics area, isolated and haunted dall'anofele. A treat military decimated by malaria will be called Salvatore Donatacci, a doctor of Cagnano Varano who had distinguished himself in research and disease prevention. The year 1915 spent at St. Nicholas in the frenetic construction activity and the first movement of patrolling the Adriatic. The construction works at a fast pace. Revel has taken to heart the fate of the fledgling station Varano, has willed and want to make it more efficient by any means, including incentives for the young soldiers there. Asks for them, on September 2, 1915, to pay the maximum charge established. The response of the ministry will be negative. The commander Ghe, tastes fine, order the mobile station, functional and elegant. I buy a piano to cheer the long lonely nights of the soldiers in this small corner of the world. Day after day, the seaplane takes increasingly autonomous and self-sufficient aspect of the center are well taken care of the roads along which the buildings are lined with a plan. Simple, elegant architecture with a colonial feel, are arranged in two rows next to the airfield hangar made of metal, wood and canvas. "A special thanks to the Mayor, Secretary General and Municipal Police for the City of Cagnano Varano availability and sensitivity for granting us permission to play
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