The project to relaunch Pompeii, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata is in progress. The institutional development contract to enhance the territorial contexts in which the sites of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata are inserted and to favor the integration between archaeological resources and urban and peri-urban areas, is taking shape to give life to a single major tourist attraction.
The 45 projects
Presented by the Minister for the South and Territorial Cohesion Mara Carfagna, the Cis Pompei-Vesuvius-Naples finances 45 projects with 287 million euros, of which 14 (from 73 million euros) directly supported by the Ministry of Culture, to revive culture, tourism, social inclusion and urban regeneration in 19 municipalities of an extensive “buffer zone” around the most visited archaeological sites in the world, which today also includes the fourth and sixth municipalities of Naples: “An area that can and must engage the extraordinary cultural drive and tourism of Pompeii – explained the minister – no longer a simple geographical outline of the most famous historical site in the world but a partner in all respects of its development and its attractiveness “. A strong commitment, shared by six ministries (Economics and Finance, Economic Development, Infrastructure, Culture, Ecological Transition, Tourism), from the Campania Region and local administrations: large-scale interventions that implement a good part and the strategic plan for the management of the Unesco site, drawn up by the Great Pompeii Project, which has completed extraordinary actions for the protection of the remains of the largest archaeological park in Europe (an operation mostly financed by the EU), extending it to a wider territory, from 9 to 19 municipalities: urban centers, entire production chains of local excellence, disused production areas, territories to be reclaimed, but also a dense network of infrastructures and areas of very high historical, archaeological, cultural and environmental, which over the centuries have generated a very complex territorial system, often poorly governed. This is how the new CIS projects focus on enhancing the environment, with the creation of bio parks, cycle paths and pedestrian paths, the redevelopment of various historical sites, the construction of new, innovative and eco-sustainable archaeological deposits. Even the construction of sewer networks, as in Torre del Greco, and the reclamation of the Sarno river.
The plans for Naples
On the website of the ministry for the South, the complete list of interventions. ex purifier, the redevelopment of the ex Corradini archaeological industrial area in San Giovanni a Teduccio, a community hub in the former municipal oven of Corso Garibaldi, for 27 million euros. Thirty-three million are destined for the Torre Annunziata-Castellammare di Stabia-Gragnano railway line by light tram, 12 to the new waterfront that will connect Portici, Ercolano and Torre del Greco. “Today Pompeii is not just a model of management and enhancement of an archaeological site that dialogues with the surrounding territories, an example for the cultural revival policies of our country, but also represents an innovative model for monitoring and protecting cultural heritage through the application of the most advanced satellite technologies “, declared Undersecretary for Culture Lucia Borgonzoni, recalling that the 73 million allocated for the occasion by the MIC “are added to the 194 million euro allocated so far by the dicastery of the Roman College.” Meanwhile, with an accelerated procedure, never adopted before, the Ministry of Culture has already designated, in the within the CIS, its sole person in charge of the implementation, monitoring, evaluation and control of the interventions. This is the general of the Carabinieri Giovanni Di Blasio, general director of the Great Pompeii project: “This Cis is the completion of an unprecedented action for the safeguarding of our archaeological heritage – comments Di Blasio – Now we will proceed with the complex monitoring and control of the interventions. ”Waiting for the resolution of the Cipess for the disbursement of the advance of the resources to the administrations for the start of the works.