Taranto and pollution: let's clarify the matter

Very often the journalistic communication tends to create "monsters" to make audience, but often these monsters tend to generalize, so, in the so-called "case Taranto", everything becomes pollution, problems at work, mineral powder.
But no one is going to deepen, to explain well how the district is developed.

In this case, Taranto has become the alias of “pollution”, "cancer”, “death”, but this territory is very wide and the negative influence of the heavy pollutions is limited to a narrow circle around the industrial zone.

We have chosen to live in Capo San Vito over 15 years ago because we have had enough of the pollution, both from an environmental point, but also from the traffic and from the noise of which our cities are still suffering.

The choice fell on the San Vito area because it is the farthest point from Ilva’s steelworks, from ENI’s refinery, from the dust of the CEMENTIR.
San Vito area has also an excellent road network that connects the city in a few minutes, it has all the amenities of a city, despite living a stone's throw from the beach and in the silence and tranquility of a residential area of excellence.

San Vito is more than 10 kilometers far from the famous minerals parks close to the Tamburi area as well as from the ENI refinery.
In addition, the Scirocco, the prevailing wind in Taranto (from south-est), repels dust contaminants and keeps the air clean for more than 300 days a year.

In the picture above there is a map taken from a navigation software which shows that the distance between the industrial area and San Vito is more than 5 nautical miles (over 10 km).

Here is a beautiful image of the transparent sea off the coast of San Vito.