DER PINIENWALD
A Papal bull (Pope Leone X) of 1518 imposed the safeguard of the pine forest and established the requisite of a majority of two third in the Town Council, to decide the felling of a pine tree. Afterwards Pope Clement VII hurled reproaches to French and Spanish soldiers, when they felled a lot of pine trees during the course of a war. But there were many other Papal bulls in the following centuries, issued in defence of the “big green lung” which was reduced, around 1914, to only 200 hectares, compared to the almost 900 hectares existing at the end of the popedom. The different political system did not anyhow settle the dispute between those who had a pro attitude to the “pineta” and the others who wanted to get a coltivable land out of the forest. This contraposition is continuing between social purposes and ecological motivations. We are talking about antithetical positions, understandable both, if they don’t become too extreme. Otherwise, with an absolute no to the felling of some pines, it would not have been possible to realize our Adriatic Golf Club Cervia.