The first public notice of the SEMI incubator is officially online. The subject of the intervention is the Bourbon greenhouses, a historic area in the heart of the English Garden that has had, over time, a decisive role, especially in terms of economic sustainability, thanks to its strong productive vocation.
Today, after years of disuse and management difficulties due to the absence of gardeners, the Management aims at its recovery, in a cultural and productive key, in an approach of shared responsibility and development opportunities by opening up to partnerships with private entities. Until 5 December 2022 it will be possible to participate in the public notice dedicated to the enhancement and promotion of the Bourbon Greenhouses located in the English Garden of the Royal Palace of Caserta, the first promoted by the new entrepreneurial incubator of the larger SEMI – Sviluppo e Meraviglia d'Impresa project.
This notice is the first step in the ambitious path that the Royal Palace of Caserta wants to take, with the aim of restoring the original productive role to artifacts of significant importance within the Bourbon complex. A difficult challenge, which the management of the Royal Palace of Caserta has chosen to face by relying on the special form of partnership provided for in Article 151, paragraph 3 of Legislative Decree 18 April 2016, no. 50, that is, between public and private.
“The Royal Palace of Caserta is a place of wonder, but also of inspiration, having all the characteristics to be a place of active enterprise – declared the director of the Royal Palace of Caserta, Tiziana Maffei, during the online event to present the notice – Being an “institute at the service of society and its development” is the inspiring principle in the management of a museum that has the productive function in its DNA.
The Royal Palace is the most important complex of the system of royal Bourbon delights which, as is well known, combined beauty with utility. The factories of this magnificence have often been true economic drivers. Today the museum function is an opportunity to operate with a view to shared responsibility: institutions must take charge of promoting and directing experimental processes of safeguarding cultural heritage, involving private individuals, on the basis of participatory projects that place professionalism, research and innovation at the centre”.
The notice concerns a large area with a productive vocation of the ancient Bourbon greenhouses: almost 8000 square meters that include the Bourbon brick greenhouse, the barrel greenhouse, the XNUMXth century greenhouse and the modern one (XNUMXth century). The special form of partnership chosen will allow to work at the same time on processes of safeguarding, recovery, maintenance, management, production, opening, enjoyment, experimentation and research: in fact, a complete valorization of the cultural heritage will be promoted in concert with the public administration.
The subjects that choose to participate will therefore have several actions to pursue: they will have to build a stable and structured relationship with the research centers and universities, in particular with the two centers already involved in the enhancement and conservation of the Green Museum of the Royal Palace of Caserta, the University of Bologna and the University of Naples Federico II. They will have to plan an investment aimed at the conservative restoration of the buildings and commit to co-designing, together with the management of the Royal Palace of Caserta, a plan to relaunch production activities.
To do this, the Royal Palace of Caserta will make available archive documents and historical catalogues, in which it is possible to identify many examples of the historical collection of the greenhouses, such as the collection of the famous camellias.
The notice also explicitly states the planning of activities aimed at increasing the use of spaces, the dissemination of environmental issues, the reproduction of the historical plant heritage, the diffusion of the concept of care in order to promote the necessary awareness of the complex and ever current relationship between man and the environment.
A specific agreement is being defined between the Royal Palace of Caserta and the Institute for Sports Credit, a public bank for the development of sports and cultural systems, aimed at financially supporting the redevelopment and enhancement projects of the Royal Palace, starting with the Bourbon Greenhouses.
"The collaboration with the Royal Palace of Caserta - declared the President of ICS Andrea Abodi - a symbolic place of Italian historical, artistic, cultural and landscape excellence, represents for all of us a source of pride and gratifying responsibility. The Institute, a social bank for the sustainable development of Italy through Sport and Culture, will accompany the redevelopment projects of the cultural heritage of the Royal Palace of Caserta, directed by the architect Tiziana Maffei, whom I thank for the trust in us.
ICS will evaluate the possibility of financially assisting private partners engaged in public-private cooperation relationships with the Reggia, including through the granting, in agreement with its Special Funds Management Committee, of guarantees and/or interest rate contributions, to be used for such financing”.
Given the particularity of the published notice, the Royal Palace of Caserta is organizing an in-person event in Caserta, inside the Vanvitellian complex, for Thursday, September 29: a moment of dialogue and networking for all those interested in participating in the notice. A unique opportunity to inspect the Serre Borboniche, learn more about the spaces, identify possible partners and imagine your own project.
“This form of partnership is special because it aims to revitalize cultural heritage in a new way,” said Marco d'Isanto, consultant for cultural businesses and institutions. “Great value is given to the community and the connections that can be created, in a perspective of horizontal subsidiarity where the public good concerns everyone, citizens, communities, institutions and private entities.”
Article published on 8 August 2022 - 14:13
