The approximately 21,000 registered visitors during the week of August 19 locations in the city museum confirm, at the same time, the great potential of the cultural capital of Rome and the wide margins to increase quality and supply for citizens and tourists’ from the words of the mayor, said Monday it is understood that he will try to do more. And in fact speaks of “great potential,” Ignazio Marino, and “considerable scope for increasing quality and supply.” If you succeed you will see it over the years. Meanwhile, however, as they say, “puts his face.” The theme? The culture, one of those on which, from the very first day, the mayor threw himself headlong.
Mayor Marino at the show in St. Lawrence Outside the Walls (La Presse)
So 21,000 (visitors) Possoni enough, but you can do more and better, maybe working on it over an entire year. And more and better not only in terms of counter inputs in the period between the 13th and 18th of the month highlight of the summer: this at least as can be determined from the words of the mayor uttered yesterday about the usual budget of Ferragosto in museums , in the monuments and archaeological sites of Rome, those of municipal jurisdiction, an ‘initiative fortunately become a tradition that every year, some luster, repeats managing to attract the attention of tourists – most importantly – and a number of citizens remained in the city.
How many? Twenty-one thousand, in fact, 20,977 to be precise, a flow line (in fact, in slight flexion, a few tens of units) compared to 2012, but having to calculate the inevitable effect of the magnet-Via dei Fori Imperiali completely closed to traffic for four days (it was the novelty of the year, with subsequent recall also the media).
In detail, the most popular (obviously excluding the sites belonging to the State, Ministry for Cultural Heritage) were the Capitoline Museums: 8,996 visitors in the six days examined, followed dall’Ara Pacis: 4000 entries, by Markets Trajan: about 1,500, and the Museum of Roman Civilization and Planetary: 1,825 visits in all.
Capitoline Museums
Obvious that even apart from the mere results of the count-museum tickets, the initiative to open the places of culture in mid-August, when the city is still full of strangers (but should also get in one Roman …) should be inserted in a broader discourse of “civilization”. That said, just that Rome has as its objective to growth, numerical, of course, but not only: “Our city – added Marino, yesterday visiting with Piero Angela and the Commissioner of the Province of Rome, Umberto Postiglione at the Domus Romane under Palazzo Valentini – lives of culture, and therefore must make the most of its range, making it even more attractive museums and exhibition areas, and joining together tradition and innovation. Rome, as demonstrated by the international attention around the closure to traffic of Via dei Fori, is at the center of the cultural debate worldwide. It is therefore my firm commitment to point to a re-launching of cultural tourism city, with greater attention to the interests and timing of tourists and Romans, and making better use of technologies applied to cultural heritage. “
Complex of the civic museums aside, to understand if and how the influx of people on the Via dei Fori all pedestrian for four days has also been able to increase the entrances to the Colosseum and the Roman Forum. For now, the satisfaction of the Minister Massimo Bray, of State Property in August showed a + 14.3 percent compared to 2012 average
