A double ribbon-cutting ceremony took place at Santa Maria al Bagno, with Mayor Pippi Mellone inaugurating the second stretch of the seafront promenade between Santa Maria and the Quattro Colonne. The second ribbon-cutting concerns the Hydro-surface with its attached mini-terminal and info point — the “heart” of the SWAN project (Sustainable Water Aerodrome Network), a system of eight multifunctional water landing areas between Italy and Greece. After a lengthy bureaucratic process lasting approximately four years, the infrastructure is now complete in its various parts: the first on land, comprising an info point, a seafront terrace, and a walkway (built with load-bearing steel structures and a wooden deck surface); and the marine section (floating docks arranged in a T-shape across their various components) — all constructed at the Nuova Metalmeccanica facility on Via Praga, in the Soleto/Galatina industrial area.
The company, through its Marine Division, puts its many years of experience in the construction and installation of steel structures at the service of boating and the marine environment, of ports and marinas throughout Salento, across Italy, and around the world.


