ROME - Pnrr funds to "save" the Casino dell'Aurora from private hands: this is what is asked in the petition launched a few weeks ago on Change.org and addressed directly to the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini to ensure that the Italian state exercise your right of pre-emption in good time and block the sale of the beautiful historic residence located in the exclusive area of Via Veneto in Rome. In fact, on 18 January the property - approximately 2800 square meters - will be auctioned for 24 hours with its numerous and incredible treasures, first of all the only fresco by Caravaggio in the world, the mural painting "Camerino di Giove Neptune and Pluto or alchemical cabinet ", but also the five frescoed rooms by Guercino and then sculptures, stuccos, statues, columns and the splendid garden.
"We use European funds to safeguard something that is ours", reads the text of the appeal, which in a few days exceeded 30,000 signatures. Meanwhile, while awaiting the response of the institutions, the date is approaching and the fate of the Casino, a building part of the historic Villa Ludovisi demolished in 1885, will be decided: the price has been set to win the residence and the artistic heritage located inside it. base of 471 million euros, with a minimum offer of 353 million 250 thousand euros, but the purchase of the complex is precisely "subject to the condition precedent of the failure to exercise the pre-emption by the state pursuant to art. 61 of Legislative Decree 42 / 2004 ".
The auction, literally dizzying, is arousing curiosity and is also attracting a lot of criticism, precisely because of the presence of priceless works that many would like to be made available to the community. However, the situation has now become unsustainable, due to the lack of agreement between the heirs (the last wife and the three children of first bed) of Prince Don Nicolò Boncompagni Ludovisi, owner of the residence, who died in 2018. The Casino dell'Aurora in fact needs of maintenance and restoration works that can no longer be postponed that the heirs cannot sustain: important interventions to be borne by the future buyer which amount to approximately 11 million euros, according to what was established by the Special Superintendence of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Rome, on last 26 February,and which concern - reads the documentation linked to the auction - "the restoration of architectural and artistic assets, the demolition of some superfetations and partitions, the reconstruction of the systems, the restoration of the finishes of the entire building, the reconstruction of traces and break-outs made in the masonry with techniques and materials identical to the existing ones ". Meanwhile, the "very rich" of the world have all been invited to participate but the risk that the auction will go deserted is real: if this is the case, the property will be put back up for auction with a lower price.the remaking of traces and cracks made in the masonry with techniques and materials identical to the existing ones ". Meanwhile, the" richest people "of the world have all been invited to participate but the risk that the auction goes deserted is real: if this is the case, we will proceed to put the asset back up for auction with a reduced price.the remaking of traces and cracks made in the masonry with techniques and materials identical to the existing ones ". Meanwhile, the" richest people "of the world have all been invited to participate but the risk that the auction goes deserted is real: if this is the case, we will proceed to put the asset back up for auction with a reduced price.
