Undersecretary Vacca: "For earthquake-affected cultural property, we have made commitments that we reiterate and want to keep."

Undersecretary for Cultural Heritage Gianluca Vacca issued a note on the issue of cultural heritage affected by the 2016 Central Italy earthquake, three years after the event. For Vacca, the earthquake was “a great tragedy and a deep wound for cultural heritage as well, since the earthquake affected regions of enormous historical, architectural, landscape, natural and environmental value.”

“Three years ago,” Vacca recalls, “the earthquake hit Lazio, Umbria, Marche and Abruzzo hard, with a very serious toll: 299 dead, hundreds injured, tens of thousands displaced and some towns entirely destroyed. In everyone’s memory remain the images of Amatrice, Accumoli, Arquata del Tronto literally reduced to rubble. A great tragedy and a deep wound for the cultural heritage as well, since the earthquake hit regions of enormous historical, architectural, landscape, natural and environmental value.”

The undersecretary says that “many works have been recovered, secured and started to be restored, and this is thanks to the extraordinary work of the offices and territorial staff of Mibac, which in these three years have worked with exemplary commitment and dedication. As a Ministry, we immediately made the Mibac Cultural Heritage Security Unit operational, for greater simplification, not only bureaucratic and administrative, but also and above all operational. We then took action to strengthen the staffing of all structures, both the central and peripheral ones in the earthquake regions, so as to better support the reconstruction phase of cultural heritage. And, again, we set up a steering cabin to make reconstruction procedures more efficient, a steering cabin that in September is called upon to produce a policy document for the governance of the Ministry.”

“We know,” Vacca concludes, “that much remains to be done, that we need to accelerate in order to return as soon as possible houses, schools, hospitals (but also places of culture, which are strongly identifiable) to those who have lost everything. It is a commitment that we had made, that we have repeatedly reiterated and that we absolutely intend to keep.”

Undersecretary Vacca: "For earthquake-affected cultural property, we have made commitments that we reiterate and want to keep."

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