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Of Angela Arena – April 28, 2024
In a country like Italy, which boasts 70% of the world’s artistic heritage, it is cultural tourism that drives hospitality: in 2023 accommodation facilities in cities and art centers recorded an increase of 11.4% . And it is precisely towards the preservation and valorisation of this strategic asset that the recent legislative decree no. seems to aim. 93, signed by the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano, which allocates a fund of approximately 236 million euros to Italian cultural heritage. A three-year package which, from 2024 to 2026, will affect the entire national territory for a total of one thousand public interventions. Among the major beneficiaries of the MIC provision we find Campania, immediately after Lazio, which will receive 34.3 million euros, with 125 projects financed.
The Mic invests: over 34 million arrive in Campania
The lion’s share will be the fine arts and landscape with 45 interventions for 19.6 million euros. The most substantial chapter concerns the courtyard of the Reggia di Portici, for whose consolidation and restoration works 600 thousand euros are allocated, as well as the famous villa La Colombaia in Ischia which will receive 1.3 million euros for the restoration and safety measures as well as for the panoramic tower of the Castle of San Michele in Voturara Irpina (500 thousand euros). Four million euros will be allocated to the restoration and renovation works of the Church of the Maddalena and the San Bernardino cloister in Aversa, as well as for the Basilica of the Madonna delle Grazie in Benevento for which one million euros will be allocated.
Furthermore, 160 thousand euros are planned for the Certosa di San Lorenzo di Padula, the only intervention in the Salerno area, and 100 thousand for the archaeological park of Villa Damecuta in Anacapri; also the Pausilypon naturalistic archaeological park in Naples and the archaeological areas pertaining to the Superintendence will have 420 thousand euros available for work to contain ruderal vegetation and maintenance of green areas. Finally, almost two million euros will finance the maintenance and restoration of important archaeological sites in the Caserta and Beneventano areas, where the Government’s attention has never been so high: 200 thousand euros destined for the restoration of the Roman Baths of Montesarchio; 500 thousand euros for the maintenance and restoration of the Roman city walls of ancient Telesia; finally, the completion project, already underway, of the ancient Baronial Castle of Puglianello, built by Frederick II of Swabia, was also financed with 103 thousand euros.
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