One thousand interventions throughout the national territory in the three-year public works program 2024-2026. The total amount of the works is equal to 235,424,970.15 euros. This is provided for by a decree signed by the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano. For 2024 alone, the amount financed, with budgetary resources from the Ministry of Culture, is 63,710,789.33 euros. Of these funds – we read in a press release from the Ministry of Culture – 14,945,633.89 euros (23.46% of the resources) are allocated to archaeology, 27,209,564.46 (42.71%) to fine arts and landscape, while 12,448,948.98 (19.54%) will go to museums.
For archives 3,710,331.00 (5.82%) for libraries 5,396,311.00 euros (8.47%). Over the three-year period 2024-2026, 86,535,304.36 million will go to the fine arts and landscape sector, 66,604,660.17 million to museums, 43,754,364.17 million to archaeology, 19,929,810.05 million to libraries and archives 18,600,831.40 million euros. As regards the territorial distribution of these funds, the largest figure, in the three-year period in question, goes to the projects of Lazio with 38,844,632.56 euros with 133 projects financed, a little less to Campania with 34,289,484, 50 euros for 125 funded projects. Followed by Tuscany and Piedmont with over 25 million euros each, for 138 and 66 projects financed respectively. Then Lombardy with 17,072,330 euros for 59 interventions, Veneto with 16,623,067.94 euros for 67 interventions and then Emilia Romagna with 10,567,847.54 euros with 10 intervention projects.
“The 2024-’26 three-year plan represents the cornerstone of the financial commitment we have available to concretely intervene to protect and enhance the nation’s very rich cultural heritage – underlines the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano – These are very important figures and that we want to see transferred into concrete works throughout Italy. Our care, with the collaboration of the peripheral structures of the Ministry, will be to follow the progress of these interventions and try to find even more funds to be able to add other projects to those for now. included in the plan”, he concludes.