Roberto Cecchi new Special Commissioner of Rome and Ostia

Monday, May 25th, 2009

After the resignation of Guido Bertolaso, the new Special Commissioner for the archaeological sites of Rome and Ostia will be Roberto Cecchi, former Director General of Heritage and Landscape. The news was announced by the Undersecretary for Culture Francesco Maria Giro said that, furthermore, that ...

Bertolaso ​​new commissioner for the archaeological areas of Rome and Ostia

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

It 'official: Guido Bertolaso ​​was appointed special commissioner for the archaeological areas of Rome and Ostia. Despite the strong opposition of Italian archaeologists and staff of the Superintendent, as we have already had occasion to discuss in this blog, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has given to the Head of Civil Protection ...

Protest against commissariamenti loans and Cultural Heritage: closure of the archaeological sites of Rome and Ostia

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Is scheduled for Friday, March 6 closing of many monuments and museums of Rome and the archaeological area of ​​Ostia. The Colosseum, Forum, Palatine Hill, the House of Augustus, the four branches of the National Museum of Rome, the Baths of Caracalla, the ruins of the Villa Appia including Quintili ...

Competition Managers archaeologists to 10 of 2007: it shall be discussed in Parliament

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

After almost two years since its publication, was in March of 2007, has not yet had the right ending the competition for 10 Executives Archaeologists banned by the then Minister for Arts and Culture Francesco Rutelli. A slowness which sharpens considerably the already ailing sector of Cultural Heritage ...

Commissariamenti sites and archaeological sites: Pompeii after Rome ...!?

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

After the appointment of special commissioners for the management of the excavations of Pompeii and the work of underground Naples and Rome, is now the turn of the archaeological sites of Rome and Ostia. In fact, the Minister for Arts and Culture, Sandro Bondi, in agreement with the Mayor of ...