The mayor of the Metropolitan City of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi, approved this morning, with his own resolutions, the technical and economic feasibility documents for the completion of the facades of the Reggia di Portici and for the restoration and redevelopment of the ruins of Villa Parnaso in Torre Annunziata for a total amount of 5 million euros.
"It is – the metropolitan mayor underlined – of important interventions for the valorization of our extraordinary cultural heritage. This is a moment in which the entire metropolitan area is a destination of great national and international tourism: it is therefore essential to make the maximum effort to increasingly qualify our offer and our services so that these flows become structural and permanent.".
This is in detail what has been established for the restoration of the facades of the Royal Palace of Portici. Work is planned for a sum of 4 million and 250 thousand euros for the facades on the North side towards Portici and on the South side towards Ercolano in order to secure them and return them to their ancient splendor.
The works follow the restoration interventions already carried out in recent decades on the complex of the Royal Bourbon Site such as the fish pond and the lake, the mound, the clock tower, the sea-facing facade, the thirty rooms of the historic apartment, the facades of the central courtyard, the presidential hall, the Chinese Hall, the Hall of the Kiss.
In consideration of the inestimable historical and cultural value that the monumental complex of the Royal Palace of Portici represents, a synergy program has been launched between the Metropolitan City, owner of the structure, the Superintendency and the Federico II University of Naples, present in the complex with the Faculty of Agriculture.
The second intervention decided by the Authority of Piazza Matteotti, in the municipality of Torre Annunziata, provides for an allocation of one million and 350 thousand euros. The Metropolitan City owns a large complex consisting of buildings and gardens, the park "Cristo Re", also known as Villa (del) Parnaso, with access from Corso Umberto I and the underlying Litoranea Marconi.
Inside the complex there are the ruins of a building that was part of the largest block of the Villa intended for residential use. The proposed intervention concerns this part of the complex, which stands on a Roman settlement, the seaside villa of Caio Siculio, which reconstructions date to around the 1st century BC.
The villa, built in an exceptional location for its environmental and climatic conditions and the presence of thermal waters, was partly destroyed by the famous eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD and rediscovered only centuries later, around 1841, in the midst of construction work on the railway line from Portici to Nocera.
The remains under examination are located between the recently renovated stairwell and the Pitagora high school, owned by the Authority, and consist of a three-level structure. The intervention is aimed, in addition to the definitive safety of the remains of the Villa, also at the restoration of the property - in compliance with the protection constraints provided for by the Cultural Heritage and Landscape Code - at the recovery of the sea viewpoint and at overcoming architectural barriers to the benefit of the city of Torre Annunziata.
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