Project for the completion of the extension of the access road to the Brancaccio industrial area and its connection to the outer ring road

Urban Integrated Plans (Mission 5 Component 2 Investment 5)

Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan provides for the regeneration, revitalization and enhancement of large degraded urban areas, with particular attention to the creation of new services for the person and the requalification of accessibility and inter-modal infrastructures, allowing the transformation of vulnerable territories into smart and sustainable cities. This investment includes two interventions: 

(I) support to general projects to deliver and implement urban integrated plans, such as maintenance and reuse of public areas and buildings, regeneration and valorisation of under-used or unused urban areas, etc. 

(II) specific projects to overcome illegal settlements in agriculture. Local administrations will be supported in the creation of action plans to overcome illegal settlements and provide decent housing solutions for workers in the agricultural sector. 

Furthermore, under this investment a thematic Fund (Fund of Funds) will be created, in collaboration with the EIB, targeting the support of private intervention in urban regeneration initiatives. This fund will be used to support the climate and digital transition of urban areas.

 This investment is financed by the NRRP by EUR 1.4 billion.

As part of this investment, the project aims to complete the highway junction on the Palermo–Catania motorway, focusing on the southern side (mountain side), corresponding to the Brancaccio Industrial Area,  the southern gateway to the city of Palermo. 

The work is of strategic importance for traffic entering the city and represents a key infrastructure intervention for improving accessibility and mobility in the metropolitan area.
This project is financed by the Recovery and Resilience Facility with EUR 4.999.827.