Casa Bellonci becomes a museum, Franceschini 'extraordinary place'

(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 10 - Casa Bellonci, headquarters since 1951 of the Friends of the Sunday meetings that make up the Jury of the Premio Strega, becomes Casa Casa. "Recovering Casa Bellonci, this extraordinary one-of-a-kind, to turn it into a museum house, is a wonderful idea," said the Minister of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, at the announcement of the restructuring works, which will begin in January 2020, today at Via Fratelli Ruspoli in Rome, home of the Bellonci apartment.
"In Italy there is a great need, as happened in other countries, to have literary itineraries that also pass through the homes of great Italian writers and which allow us to aim at cultured, intelligent tourism, which is in Italy to seek and respect beauty. and we need to "said the minister. "If it is a question of making the country's heritage more valuable, the more public and private the better", he added. (HANDLE).