The Ministry of Culture will spearhead theacquisition and revitalization of the SannazaroTheater , which was hit by fire last month, ensuring continuity for the community and the theater’s large family, with the aim of preserving its cultural and social role in the city. A meeting was held yesterday, March 11, in Naples at the Prefecture between Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, Prefect Michele di Bari, Campania Regional President Roberto Fico and Naples Mayor Gaetano Manfredi, along with Department Head of Cultural Heritage Protection Luigi La Rocca, Regional Culture Councillor Ninni Cutaia, and the owners and managers of the Sannazaro Theater. The focus of the discussion was updates and operational decisions regarding the future of the Neapolitan theater.
“The Ministry of Culture will buy the theater and provide the operators with a space that could also be inside the Royal Palace so that the theater activities will continue,” said Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli. “It will be a choral operation with all the people who care about the Sannazaro project that can be summed up in the word State. With the Prefect, the Mayor and the President of the Region, we will ensure continuity for the great Sannazaro family, which ranges from the ownership, to the managers and, above all, to the community that will continue to live.”
“It was a constructive and fruitful meeting. We are working with determination for the rebirth of the Sannazaro Theater,” said Campania Regional President Roberto Fico. “We warmly welcome the decision of the Ministry of Culture to proceed with the acquisition of the theater, a decision that will thus allow the institutions to be able to put in place all the necessary actions to make a place that is part of the history of Naples, its culture and art, a heritage that belongs to all of Italy, shine again.The Campania Region has begun to allocate in the 2026 budget one million euros, a first step in this path of rebirth, for which the commitment will be maximum.”
“I am very pleased with the understanding reached on the future of the Sannazaro Theater,” said Naples Mayor Gaetano Manfredi. “We had promised the Sansone family that the institutions would work quickly to ensure public support in order to resume activities as soon as possible and then to rebuild the Sannazaro. This step forward confirms full institutional collaboration to preserve a cultural asset that is fundamental for Naples and for all of Italy.”
“I express satisfaction with the outcome of the meeting attended by the Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli,” stressed the Prefect, Michele di Bari. “During the meeting, the minister declared his willingness to initiate, as a first concrete step for the rapid realization of the Sannazaro Theater, the possibility of an acquisition by the Ministry of Culture. This is an important signal of attention to a cultural project awaited by the territory and capable of restoring value and function to a significant place for the community.”
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