Massa, trample delicate 18th-century stuccoes of Ducal Palace to unfurl flag

An episode that has the unbelievable about it occurred yesterday in Massa for the June 2 celebrations: in fact, in an amateur video you can see two firefighters who, in order to unfurl the Italian flag on the facade of the Ducal Palace, one of the most interesting 16th-century buildings in Tuscany, the ancient seat of the court of the small duchy of Massa and Carrara, inevitably find themselves stepping on the 18th-century stuccoes that decorate the windows of the main floor.

The video was shot by a citizen who was in the square, and he turned it over to the Mo(n)stre page, run by Fabrizio Federici, an art historian from Massa, who was the first to denounce the incident on Mo(n)stre’s Instagram channel through a few stories. The decorations date back to 1700-1701: the large windows are adorned with busts of the ducal dynasty, the Cybo-Malaspina, and constitute an example of an open-air gallery of sculptural portraits, in Bernini style, without equal in Italy. However, because they are made of stucco, they are also very fragile , and some of them have been protected with metal netting because they are subject to the risk of detachment.

Moreover, the Ducal Palace itself will be the protagonist in 2024 of an exhibition of the Uffizi Diffusi and would need a proper revitalization, as Federici himself wrote only a few days ago on these pages. But with this episode, the enhancement of the Ducal Palace certainly does not begin with the best auspices.

Massa, trample delicate 18th-century stuccoes of Ducal Palace to unfurl flag

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