Panzano...a company town to discover!

Slow Tour

16 July 2020

Slow Tour

Panzano...a company town to discover!

From the building of the former worker's hotel, which today houses the Muca (museo della cantieristica, Shipbuilding Museum), my journey starts through the streets of Panzano and its stories of over a hundred years of life. Starting in 1908 foundation year of the shipyard by the Cosulich family, until 1927 the houses increased until becoming a small town shaded by the great ships in construction. Walking along Via del Mercato, near the old water tower, I come across the Monument to the workers fallen during the Resistance. I turn down Via Pisani, leaving the shipyard behind me whose sounds follow me down the street that used to house the shops of Panzano.

Step after step, I come to a small square on the right dedicated to the victims of asbestos, which is a cause of great bereavement in the community of Monfalcone. I stop briefly in front of the monument by Mauro Tonet and Massimo Carlotto, to then turn down Viale Cosulich, the main artery of the working village whose last ramification is represented by the white walls of the sports field of Panzano across the street, I begin to glimpse the manager’s villas among the trees, eclectic in their Art Nouveau forms and decorations, designed by Dante Fornasir, the founder of the whole company town. A discovery that comes to an end, but not without admiring the façade of the worker's hotel, Today the Europalace Hotel, whose decorations link the local farming tradition and the industrial development of Monfalcone, so strongly bound to the shipyard.

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Andrea Ferletic

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For several years I have been involved with the Great War as part of the historical group called “I Grigioverdi del Carso”. This passion leads me to focus on “Art and culture” and “slow tours”, above all in the Karst region and in the places that experienced battles in the twentieth century.