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“In all Western democracies, encrustations of power are avoided, long-lasting encrustations, and we move towards alternation. In the United States, for example, New York tends to be Democratic, but it has had mayors like Rudolph Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg who were Republicans, and that is welcome. But this must happen on both sides. The time is ripe for Florence to have an alternation, which precisely means the salt of democracy.” This is the hope of the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano, who arrived in Florence to meet the candidates of Fratelli d’Italia and relaunch support for Eike Schmidt, who he strongly wanted as the name for the center-right to attack Palazzo Vecchio.
“This is a natural capital of art and culture, it is a city renowned throughout the world, therefore having a professionalism adhering to the problems of the city, which are also the problems of the protection and valorisation of the heritage on which my ministry he is highly committed, it means a lot.”
“We are doing many things for this city”
In this regard, Sangiuliano claimed the role played by his ministry in the relaunch of the May, “both in terms of material rescue such as economic resources” and for the “ability to identify a professional like that of Carlo Fuortes who could do well”, but not only. “We are doing many things for the city, we will inaugurate the restoration of the Vasari Corridor, we are working on the façade of Palazzo Pitti, then I made the one born from the union of the Bargello with the Academy a first-rate museum, then we made the museum autonomous archaeological where there is a new manager. We are making a lot of investments.” And again, interventions on the Uffizi, with a new ticket office and new accesses. “We are working a lot on Florence, convinced that our cultural heritage is first and foremost a great spiritual value. Culture is something that makes us all feel good, but it also represents an extraordinary opportunity for socio-economic development for the nation and we are working in this direction.”
Precisely on the union between Bargello and the Academy, regarding the new direction of the Gallery, he announced that “there will be a call for tenders very shortly” after the elections. “not my fault but because there are technical procedures. When a tender is issued, it must then be sent to a series of institutions and offices who must then give their approval.”
