In recent months I have followed on ‘Carlino’ the debate that developed after the tender announced by the Province for the redevelopment of the historic gardens of Villa Caprile. The tender to contract the works of around two million (investment financed with European money from the Pnrr) was in fact unsuccessful, and a direct award was made. But there are strong doubts about the solutions adopted, doubts expressed by environmentalist groups and associations such as Italia Nostra, Legambiente, Italia Nostra, WWF Marche, Lupus in Fabula, the Province, the Superintendency, the Ministry of Culture. The seventeenth-eighteenth century system of Villa Mosca in Caprile and the complex history that characterizes it require the collaboration of specific skills, which know how to combine structural protection and recovery with scholastic needs. But monumental and landscape constraints require very high profile skills, not always expressed by the projects developed. (Architects, agronomists, landscape architects??) The whole is then relevant in the landscape context of the Colle San Bartolo Natural Park, it should not concern individual projects for the restoration of the garden, the building, and the construction of new buildings, but globally the set of these. A historical-architectural-environmental system of the highest quality and complexity such as this requires all the necessary professional skills, i.e. professionals with documented experience in the different and complex types of intervention. A public meeting is requested, in which decisions taken such as new flooring, ramps and the felling of some trees will also be discussed again. The historic garden with water features is a complex organism, with plant, plant, sculptural and architectural components.
The presence of an interdisciplinary group is necessary
of experts and a broad and specific cultural meditation, in full compliance with the Cultural Heritage Code and the Procurement Code.
* art historian
