Caput Mundi: back wall of the Forum of Augustus

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 and includes this project.
This intervention aims to conserve a monument and ensure public safety, focusing on its front along Via di Tor dei Conti. Due to atmospheric exposure, the peperino blocks and a 17th-century portal, including an Annunciation group, show significant decay like detachment and exfoliation. The project will restore and consolidate these stone and pictorial elements. This project is financed by the Recovery and Resilience Facility with EUR 1428000

The intervention aims to guarantee the conservation of the monument and public safety, particularly with reference to the front on Via di Tor dei Conti. The surface of the peperino blocks shows detachments and exfoliation of the constituent material due to direct exposure to atmospheric agents. The same elements of decay can be found in the seventeenth-century portal leading to the church, in particular in the group with the Annunciation inserted in the tympanum. Specifically, the following interventions will be carried out: restoration and consolidation of the stone surface; restoration and consolidation of stone and pictorial elements from the modern era.