Do you remember Isola delle Rose? That platform on the Adriatic Sea, along the coast between Rimini and Bellaria-Igea Marina (situated about 500 meters outside the Italian territorial waters), that in 1968 declared itself an independent State and put the then Government in trouble? Here, along Sardinia, the same utopian idea that Giorgio Rosa created at the end of the 1950s for his Rose Island could be born. This time around the work of Aldo Francesco III, in the century Aldo Poncini, a trade unionist and private researcher from Piedmont who has decided to create a new island named Atlantida in the international waters that separate the Sardinian island from the Balearic Islands. This time, however, it is not about carrying forward a libertine ideology like Giorgio Rosa did, but probably, more than anything, a place outside of any international and internal law where a casino should mainly be built. It will be così uno…stato-casino.
The Atlantis project
“The Principality of Atlantida will rise in international waters on a pair of ships that we have already individuated. There are companies linked to the game, whose name I cannot make, ready to invest millions. We are finalizing and contracting. Che ci gainadano? Avranno la possibilità di creare navi casino senza pagare le tasse. We want to attract research entities to set up a floating medical laboratory”. This is the explanation of Aldo Poncini, or Aldo Francesco III if preferred, on his will to establish a new independent state. A sort of free area for chiunque voglia collocarsi. In fact, this is not the case, the rules of international law are very different compared to the 70s when they chose to start activities on ships to escape State Law (a striking example is Radio Caroline, one of the first English pirate radios whose founder , Ronan O’Rahilly installed antennae and armament on a ship to broadcast outside the English jurisdiction). Ma Poncini seems to have increased the dose by affirming “another 28 micronations support Atlantida”. In realtà queste altro sono che small groups of people with old secessionist comme improvisati ordini di inspiration templare, autarchiche farm of rural America or so-called Romanian secessionists. Poncini seems determined but sarà tutto da vedere.
Why are there no casinos in Sardegna?
Sardinia is one of the regions where the game has been most affected both in physical stores and online, but also through the slot machine and the instant lottery. Only in Sardegna, in fact, it registers about a billion and a half euro annually. So far, in fact, and Sardi to play have only had the possibility to do so thanks to the important number of online casinos authorized by Aams present on the market, and which allow the use of different types of promotions such as a Pokerstars bonus code, valid both for new subscribers for those who already have an account on this portal. Large numbers that would make you think of fertile ground for the construction of a casino that has never existed on the island. On the other hand, there will also be the North coast, which, especially in summer, becomes a destination for super luxury tourism in the Costa Smeralda area, which has its nerve center in the Municipality of Porto Cervo. This would probably be the right point for such an investment. Despite the fact that over the years there have been various attempts to invest in this sense, there has never been a real project and the discussion is still open. Why? There is some resistance to this idea probably due to legitimate doubts about the effective economic return on the part of the eventual investor, on the one hand, but also for a cultural question, on the other. If he fears, in particular, that the presence of a casino could go to economically affect a territory, that of the entire region, characterized by a non-high income where the experience of maxi luxury is limited only to a seasonality and in an area well specific to the territory that does not benefit the entire island.
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