VENICE CITY COUNCIL IN SEARCH OF SPONSORS TO RESTORE VENETIAN MONUMENTS

An interesting and detailed article by Enrico Tantucci in today’s Nuova Venezia newspaper says that the city council’s commissioner Vittorio Zappalorto is looking for sponsors to finance numerous restoration works to the city’s cultural assets at a cost of 46 million euros. A not negligible figure that it is hoped can be reached, also in view of the tax allowances offered by the so-called ‘Art Bonus’. Many of the works at diverse costs affect the St Mark’s area, specifically, the Procuratie Vecchie, the Giardinetti Reali and its quay, the Palazzo Reale, the Ponte della Zecca, the Museo Correr and the Doge’s Palace. So a long list, which now awaits the sensitivity, and money, of some major entrepreneur, as was the case with the Rialto Bridge and the arrival of Renzo Rosso.