The terrace of the Pincio back to the Romans. The first garden in the capital, protected by the Charter of Historic Gardens, built by Napoleon Bonaparte and built according to the neoclassical architect Giuseppe Valadier, returns to being usable in all its glory. On
Pincio terrace, or rather the achievement of an underground parking for 700 cars, was born a quarrel between the former mayor Walter Veltroni, the project sponsor, and the mayor Gianni Alemanno, contrary to this right away and supported by Minister for Cultural Heritage. Reason for the crash, the discovery of important archaeological finds.
To settle the issue had been appointed a committee of wise men who had considered it necessary to explain a "variant design" in terms of archeology. The essays, in particular, believed that "emptying into the depths of the hill and the inclusion of a very significant volume of new construction" could "irreversibly compromising the historical value and aesthetic quality and environmental sites concerned, from memory to the most modern archaeological significance of architectural order. "
At the end of 2008, it was then decided to stop work. The City of Rome was therefore undertaken the difficult period of recovery and restoration of urban curated by City Historical Department of the VI, together with the Superintendence state and municipal. Undersecretary Francesco Giro Cultural Heritage announced that most of the archaeological structures found were entirely covered with fabric and pozzolana: "The rest - he explained - which corresponds to the marginal structures of a Roman villa overlooking the Muro Torto, whose central portion had been already destroyed by the proposed reorganization of the Pincio Valadier, will be covered with a slab structure supported by 12 poles that will have to pay, where applicable, to drill holes made in the course of archaeological investigations and still fall back on virgin soil " . (ANSA)
Pincio terrace, or rather the achievement of an underground parking for 700 cars, was born a quarrel between the former mayor Walter Veltroni, the project sponsor, and the mayor Gianni Alemanno, contrary to this right away and supported by Minister for Cultural Heritage. Reason for the crash, the discovery of important archaeological finds.
To settle the issue had been appointed a committee of wise men who had considered it necessary to explain a "variant design" in terms of archeology. The essays, in particular, believed that "emptying into the depths of the hill and the inclusion of a very significant volume of new construction" could "irreversibly compromising the historical value and aesthetic quality and environmental sites concerned, from memory to the most modern archaeological significance of architectural order. "
At the end of 2008, it was then decided to stop work. The City of Rome was therefore undertaken the difficult period of recovery and restoration of urban curated by City Historical Department of the VI, together with the Superintendence state and municipal. Undersecretary Francesco Giro Cultural Heritage announced that most of the archaeological structures found were entirely covered with fabric and pozzolana: "The rest - he explained - which corresponds to the marginal structures of a Roman villa overlooking the Muro Torto, whose central portion had been already destroyed by the proposed reorganization of the Pincio Valadier, will be covered with a slab structure supported by 12 poles that will have to pay, where applicable, to drill holes made in the course of archaeological investigations and still fall back on virgin soil " . (ANSA)
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