“We want to make Villa Cuomo accessible, enhance it as it deserves, insert it into a broader tourist itinerary that can finally also include Sant'Antonio Abate and promote new archaeological excavation activities”.
With this objective, on Tuesday 4 July at 17 pm, there will be the signing of an important memorandum of understanding between the Municipality of Sant'Antonio Abate, the Superintendency of Naples, the Archaeological Park of Pompeii and the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Naples "Federico II".
For the occasion, a press conference will be held at the archaeological site of Villa Cuomo (via Casa Salese) to present the agreement between the various bodies.
The meeting will be attended by: the mayor of Sant'Antonio Abate, Ilaria Abagnale; Mariano Nuzzo, director of the Archaeological Superintendency of Naples and the province; Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii; Professor Danilo Ercolini, dean of the Faculty of Agriculture of the Federico II University of Naples; and archaeologist Mario Cesarano, official of the Archaeological Superintendency, Fine Arts and Landscape for the metropolitan area of Naples.
“A new excavation campaign – announced Mayor Ilaria Abagnale – will achieve what Carlo Cuomo hoped for, who almost fifty years ago demonstrated a strong civic sense and invested time and economic resources in his discovery. That villa, buried by ashes and time, came back to light only in part thanks to the exciting adventure of the owner of that land.
And now, thanks to funding from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and the memorandum of understanding that we will sign, we will finally move on to the phase of valorization, promotion and enjoyment of those archaeological assets". The appointment is for Tuesday 4 July at 17 pm at Villa Cuomo (Sant'Antonio Abate, via Casa Salese).
Article published on 1 July 2023 - 14:55
