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The Cinema Progresso

The front of the former Cinema Teatro Progresso on Strada Nova: above the entrance of the Tigotà shop, the architrave keeps the carved sign
The front of the former Cinema Teatro Progresso on Strada Nova: above the entrance of the Tigotà shop, the architrave keeps the carved sign Photo: Wolfgang Moroder, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Among the shop windows of Strada Nova no one looks up above the detergent shop. You would do well to: on the stone architrave over the entrance an inscription is carved in large letters, all curls and early-1900s flourishes: CINEMA TEATRO PROGRESSO. It is the only thing left of a cinema that worked here for more than sixty years.

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