Galtellì and Villagrande remember the disastrous flood of 20 years ago

Twenty years ago Galtellì and Villagrande were devastated by a disastrous flood.

In the Ogliastra town there were two victims, remembered yesterday with the celebration of a Holy Mass: a three-year-old girl Francesca Longoni and her grandmother Assunta Bidotti. The town was literally devastated and there were damages for over twenty million euros.

In Galtellì, fortunately, there were no deaths, but here too, the damage was very serious, with hundreds of homes flooded, roads destroyed and dozens of farms devastated. In this municipality this morning, to remember those events, a meeting in the municipal auditorium promoted by the municipality with all the schools present. "An initiative, declared Mayor Franco Solinas, wanted to remind the community of that difficult moment and preserve its memory." In front of the students, the testimonies of many who in those days, fought against the fury of the water.