Caput Mundi: Theatre of Marcellus

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 project comprehensively restores and maintains archaeological artifacts, focusing on structural consolidation, enhanced lighting, and creating accessible visitor itineraries. It involves detailed masonry and artifact restoration, setting up archaeological remains with walkways, and specific work on Beatrice Cenci's rooms, including bird prevention measures. This project is financed by the Recovery and Resilience Facility with EUR 5060000. The project involves various activities, including conservative restoration, possibly accompanied by structural consolidation, and lighting and video surveillance of the archaeological artifacts. New itineraries will be identified and created, together with related service structures. A lift for disabled people will be installed up to the upper ambulacrum, and new informative signs will be created. Archaeological investigations will be carried out, as well as specific consolidations and restorations on the masonry elements that require detachment interventions. The accumulated earth will be arranged and leveled, and walkways will be created to allow access above the archaeological remains. Ramps and connections will be built to overcome small differences in level, and the stone artifact relating to the monument will be scenically set up, with extraneous ones removed. Adjustments and reorganization of the ascent routes will be made, and the lighting system will be reviewed and adapted to current regulations to improve the transitability of the upper ambulacrum. The gates along the access ramp to the upper ambulacrum will be eliminated. In relation to the itinerary of Beatrice Cenci’s rooms, the reorganization and rearrangement of the wooden coffers currently stacked outside will be carried out. The ceiling and mosaic will be adequately restored and illuminated. The wooden access ladders and balconies will be examined, consolidated, and brought up to standard. The functioning of the existing lighting fixtures will be reviewed, with their possible replacement, and a safety lighting system will be created in all accessible spaces. Furthermore, interventions will be carried out to prevent birds from being able to access, such as the closure of gaps and openings through the application of anti-pigeon nets and the use of mechanical and electrostatic deterrents.