Dario Franceschini has kept his word: the resources of the PNRR for culture must not go only to symbolic places and events. We must devote ourselves to things capable of attracting tourists, investments, curiosity. The word attractor has thus become the key to symbolically starting engines often only drawn on paper.
IThe Plan voted in Parliament, in addition to museums, cinemas, digitization, in the end included "major cultural attractions" declined in 14 surgeries. They are transversal projects that bring together art, history, the environment, in an attempt to give a circular breath back to the great Italian heritage. The sense of awakening after the hibernation of the pandemic it could only gather the spirit of lightness and low impact on the environment to harmonize places and structures. The reverse direction to that of the last few decades which has accumulated disappointments and squanderings.
Of the 6 billion euros allocated to his sector overall - Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Franceschini has allocated approx 1,5 billion euros for redevelopment works or resumption of hatched works. The Venice Biennale, the Old Port of Trieste, the River Park of Turin, the European Information and Culture Library in Milan, the Genoese forts, the Po delta park between Veneto and Emilia Romagna, the Artemio Franchi stadium in Florence, the Roman city, the Mediterranean Museum in Reggio Calabria, the South Coast in Bari, the Tobacco Factory in Palermo, the historic trains in Bari, the Peliade Tower in Trapani, the Real Albergo dei Poveri in Naples. From here the spring of attraction will have to spring, respectful of the completion times of the works, but above all capable of giving the signal of a different respect for the country's history. You can see the strength of a design that must accompany the recovery of the country swithout denying the transversal nature of the entire PNRR that Draghi spoke about.
Each intervention will have eco-sustainable characteristics, so that the use of any event is part of that green vision that young people have taught us to appreciate. In this effort, Franceschini and the government will have to bring together, in the most suitable forms, large energy companies to have their technical and economic contribution. With them, principles and methods will have to be established to improve every energy aspect with a long horizon.
“Culture will make a great contribution to the restart – said the Minister. From interventions on the great cultural attractions in the metropolitan cities to a major operation to revitalize the villages, to the intervention on the anti-seismic safety of places of worship, to digitization, creativity and the strengthening of the film industry". A good synthesis in which the creation of the Center for the control and monitoring of cultural heritage. If it is not thought of as a new bureaucratic structure, we hope that among its tasks there will also be control of the environmental sustainability and the fight against neglect over time. Of the 14 attractors of today and of the many others that can be created.
