Benevento
This double recognition which runs through the heart of the city with the inclusion of the Appia Antica in the world heritage list will also allow Benevento to be given the city denomination of the two UNESCO sites”. The Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Benevento, Antonella Tartaglia Polcini, starts from here in commenting on the further achievement attributed to Benevento.
In fact, we are only waiting for the official ceremony scheduled in New Delhi on the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth of July for the recognition of the Via Appia-Regina Viarum in the UNESCO List.
“A goal – continues Tartaglia Polcini – which could affect the signage and the way in which the tourist offer is presented on a national and international level but, in particular, the double recognition of two important serial sites is the recognition of the history of a center which for geographical location, due to its people’s strong roots in the territory, due to great sensitivity over the centuries manifested by documentary, archaeological, architectural and artistic evidence, it has always placed emphasis on the promotion of culture. Because it is a symbol of the importance on the political, institutional and international level of the Arch of Trajan placed precisely to mark that symbol of the bifurcation of the Appian Way to guarantee an alternative route which however enriches and does not impoverish the main route, it is an expression of great futuristic vision of the emperor that he left to his people”.
And he adds: “Benevento is ahead and demonstrates it in all the following centuries also with its centrality. Suffice it to say that for centuries it has been the point of reference for autonomy, the ability to govern territories and processes of change”.
And finally the challenge “Today we find ourselves in a moment of epochal global crisis but we must look at this opportunity as a relaunch of the advantageous position that Benevento has towards the Mediterranean to consolidate an opening to a development of relations and growth that is economic , social, cultural and development empowerment especially for young people so that Benevento represents not only the crossroads of crucial junctions but also the location in which to stay or return with great opportunities and this symbol has the substance of everything that could happen”.
