Yesterday (Friday 18 February) the special commissioners of the Agnesi Foundation, Professor Alberto Falini and Prefect Luigi Varratta, announced the project from RTL radio microphones, who recalled how the Spaghetti Museum is destined to return to its «home original », in Pontedassio. The works should start next month and the center dedicated to the historic activity started in 1824 by the Agnesi family right in the village behind Oneglia will open by the end of the year.
The commissioners observe: “The Museum was created with the intention of reflecting the statutory objectives of the Vincenzo Agnesi Foundation, which since its establishment has had the aim of promoting knowledge and the enhancement of Italian pasta in the world and maintaining and developing its appearance historical-institutional. we would like to remember La Fabbrica della Pasta di Gragnano, which for years has held the ancient and prestigious machinery of the Agnesi family on free loan, making them visible to visitors, and the Pastificio Cuomo with which we have been in business for some time now “.
The mayor of Pontedassio, Ilvo Calzia explains: «A building site linked to schools is currently underway. At the end of the month we will restore the entrance for the students on the opposite side and we will be able to start the interventions for the Museum, which will find its place in a former mill in Via Leopardi: most of the work will be completed before the summer and the setting up is foreseen in Autumn. The Ministry of Culture has granted us funds for 466 million plus an additional expense of 117,000. A sheathing will have to be made on the roof, new flooring and plant engineering. ”The duration of the works is expected to be around six months. The plan is signed by the NG studio associated with the architect Torello and the engineer Papone.
Pontedassio “blew” the project to contenders like Rome, Naples and Gragnano. In the past, the premises where the Pasta Museum will be built housed the Valle Impero social oil mill. The center dedicated to the history of Agnesi had been opened in the old family home in Pontedassio in 1958. In 1997 it had “moved” to Rome, in the sixteenth-century building in Piazza Scanderbeg, near the Trevi Fountain. Now go back to the place where she is na