Caput Mundi: Aurelian Walls section Porta Latina - Porta S. Sebastiano

Caput Mundi Next Generation EU for touristic great events (Mission 1, Component 3, Investment 4.3)

Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan increases the number of accessible tourist sites in Rome, creating valid and qualified tourist and cultural alternatives with respect to the crowded central areas, as well as increasing the use of digital technologies, enhance green areas and the sustainability of tourism. The investment envisages six lines of interventions:
1. “Roman Cultural Heritage for EU-Next Generation”, covering the regeneration and restoration of cultural and urban heritage and complexes of high historical-architectural value of the city of Rome;
2. “Jubilee paths” (from pagan to Christian Rome), targeted to the enhancement, safety, anti-seismic consolidation, restoration of places and buildings of historical interest and archaeological pathways;
3. #LaCittàCondivisa, covering the redevelopment of sites in peripheral areas;
4. #Mitingodiverde, covering interventions on parks, historical gardens, villas and fountains;
5. #Roma 4.0, covering the digitalization of cultural services and the development of apps for tourists;
6. #Amanotesa, aimed at increasing the supply of cultural offer to peripheries for social integration.

The investment is financed by the Recovery and Resilience Facility by EUR 500 million.

As part of this investment, the project will conservatively restore a damaged section, addressing mortar flaking, facing detachment, and cracks. It involves structural stabilization, lighting upgrades, and restoring walkway access. Work includes cleaning, vegetation removal, reinforcement, new electrical systems, and ensuring accessibility, safety, and fire prevention compliance. This project is financed by the Recovery and Resilience Facility with EUR 7475000.

The section needs conservative restoration work to stop the mortar flaking off, the detachment of the facing, the disintegration of the wall ridges, and the presence of cracks due to infesting vegetation and deep root systems. Structural work will be carried out to restore the stability of several wall structures and the artistic and functional lighting system. Access to the walkway beside Porta Metronia and the patrol path will be restored. The following works are planned for the realization of the project: preliminary cleaning operations; elimination of infesting vegetation and biological attacks; conservation works; constitutive reinforcement works; construction of an electrical and lighting system; adaptation to legislation on architectural barriers, safety, and fire prevention.