Piazza Italia Gardens Open In Carlton
The Age
Monday January 30, 2006
THE contribution of Victoria's Italian community to the life of the state was recognised yesterday with the official opening of the $3.5 million Piazza Italia gardens in Argyle Place, on the corner of Lygon Street in Carlton. First proposed in December 1998 by then premier Jeff Kennett during a visit by then Italian president Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, the Argyle Square redevelopment features traditional Italian hand-crafted porphyry paving surrounding a huge 45-square-metre solar clock.
The ceremony was followed with performances by the Banda Bellini 43-piece marching band, the 30-voice La Voce della Luna choir, the Victorian accordion sextet from Trent, Italy, singer-guitarist Sergio Ercole, The Signoras comedy duo Carmelina Di Guglielmo and Edwina Entwhistle and Mattopancetta male comedians Adam Mattaliano and Brendon Bacon.
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