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BUSSANA VECCHIA 1959-1961
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Most
houses being restored on minimal budgets structurally not altering
the outward appearance of the buildings, but making the basic changes
to render habitable the least damaged spaces. At this time the new
inhabitants needed to have a strong commitment and belief in the idea
of the village as its future was uncertain. Most houses were used
as alternative homes and studio' s, where people would stay and work
for limited periods of time and not as permanent accomodation
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From
the outside, tension from the old inhabitants of the village in Bussana
Nuova and their view on Bussana Vecchia started to become a costant
pressure. The fear of eviction, which had always been an uncertainty
in the village, came to a head in 1968 on the 15th of July with the
eviction order giving the villagers ten days to move out of Bussana
Vecchia.
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1963 - 1968 : LINES OF DEVELOPMENT
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1968 - 1979 : LINES OF DEVELOPMENT
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In the
lower part of the village, free spaces had become scarce and the rights
to these spaces were sometimes contested by individuals selling them
to one another at a price connected only to the cost of restoration
work. These changes appear to have had an effect on the production
of the village? The majority of the residents had other forms of income
from outside the village, either through fixed employment related
to their work, either contacts or outlets in other parts of the world.
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It is followed that the visible production in Bussana Vecchia also tended tomove towards craft based activities exploiting this new marketin 1974 it became possible for everybody in Bussana Vecchia to be connected to the main water supply and residancy was finally recognized in the winter of 1976, electicity was firstly supplied to a few properties, then in November 1977 permission was finally granted to everybody. |
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Thus
they did not have to rely to the same extent, as the new permanent
people, on the touristic flow from San Remo and the italian riviera.
Also during this time there was a slow change taking place from a
more exclusive type of tourism to the mass tourism one find today
during the summer months. .
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In 1979,
an italian law court pronounced a verdict which, for the first time,
clarifies and enforces a legal right to possession in the village.
In this case in favour of a foreign artist whose house had been occupied
by an italian family in during his absence.
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TEXT AND PHOTO N. 11 © COPYRIGHT 2000 - LABORATORIO APERTO - BUSSANA VECCHIA - ITALY
PHOTO N. 1 / 2 © COPYRIGHT WILLY DAHMEN - N. 3 © VANNI GIUFFRE' - N. 4 © A. GHEZZI - N. 5 / 7 © CLIZIA - N. 6/9/10/12/1314 © MAURIZIO FALCONE - N. 8 © E. BRUGO