Trajan's Forum - arrangement and enhancement of the south porticoed area

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.
To revitalize a closed Imperial-era area in Rome, the project will restore the portico's marble flooring and architectural elements (columns, frieze, ceiling fragments). It also involves an anastylosis of one portico column to highlight the original structure. This project is financed by the Recovery and Resilience Facility with EUR 476000. The area, currently closed to the public, requires the redevelopment and enhancement of its constituent aspects for better use and intelligibility of the original architectural structure of the imperial era. Specifically, the following interventions will be carried out: conservative restoration of the portico flooring with cipollino and portasanta marble slabs; conservative restoration of the architectural elements attributable to the architecture of the porticoed court, including elements of the Corinthian columns with cipollino shaft, of the frieze-architrave with Apollonian griffins, and of the ceiling with lacunar fragments of the dedicatory inscription; anastylosis of a column of the portico and preparation of the architectural elements.