Pompeii is looking for a new director, notice on the Economist

(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 17 - With the publication today and tomorrow on the pages of the Economist, the search for the new super director officially opens in Pompeii, the professionalism that will have to collect the legacy of Massimo Osanna, from September at the guide of the Mibact museums, and continue its work. "That of Pompeii is a story of great redemption - reiterates Franceschini - in 2014 when I arrived at Mibact it was synonymous with collapses and strikes, today it is a model". Having successfully concluded the Grand Project started with the 105 million European funds, the work to be done, the outgoing director Osanna clarifies alongside the minister, "is still a lot". At stake, he explains, is an enormous project, financed with 32 million of Ciper funds "for the safety of the southern front". A project, he specifies, which had remained out of the work done with European funds because there was no time to complete it. Now, after a slowdown due to the lockdown, the interventions, says Osanna "should be banned by the end of 2020. In 2021 the construction sites". Then, of course, there is the question of the warmth of visitors, which also made itself felt in Pompeii, despite the fact that there was a notable recovery in July and August, "A 70 percent decline - says Franceschini - from January to today total visitors who usually flock to the park in a month ". But the greatest challenge, the minister insisted at the end, "will now be, after the excavations and the insecurity, to deal with everything around Pompeii, the infrastructures, the transport. It will be a long job, but we will get out of it". The call will expire on November 3, the procedure will be completed by March 2021. (ANSA).