Raggi: “Roman Summer signal to restart for the capital”

“It is important to be here today, to announce the reopening of the Roman Summer, also with some new features: a signal for the capital to restart after the closures for Covid even if the city has never stopped, with particular attention to the sector of culture “. The mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, expressed her satisfaction by illustrating from the Casa del Cinema, inside Villa Borghese, the initiatives on the bill for the new ‘Roman Summer’, “with 65 projects and an allocation of 1,750,000 euros and activities in all municipalities, open to the use of citizens and tourists “; Speaking of which, he announces “the arrival in Rome of the first 200 American tourists, who landed yesterday at Fiumicino airport”. Raggi underlines “the strong request received from operators to multiply the opportunities for meeting, even outside the list of winners of the calls, through the free concession of outdoor spaces: we are available, please choose the places and, in absence of constraints, space will be given free of charge, an option that we strongly wanted to activate. We want to reconnect with the places and souls of this city and I hope that the Roman Summer will be a moment of great energy and cohesion, to rediscover the our identities: may this ‘Roman Summer’ be our summer! “. For her part, the Capitoline councilor for culture Lorenza Fruci recalls that” the Roman Summer was one of the first dossiers that engaged me in the councilorship in recent months: organizing this event was not taken for granted, between the limits imposed by Covid and the snares of bureaucracy. We listened to and accepted the requests of the operators, despite the economic difficulties that all municipal administrations. But returning to producing culture means returning to life “, Fruci underlines. As for the places that will host the events of the ‘Estate Romana’, they range from the Argentina Theater and the connected India, Torlonia, Villa Pamphilj to the peripheral theatrical spaces of Quarticciolo and Arena Tor Bella Monaca, in addition to the Lido Ostia theater and the site of Gabi sulla Prenestina; from the Globe Theater of Villa Borghese to the Circus Maximus with the summer season of the Opera House; from the Auditorium ‘Parco della Musica’, with Santa Cecilia also engaged on tour. And again: from Villa Celimontana to Maxxi, to Macro and to the ex Slaughterhouse of Testaccio, from Villa Ada to the Gardens of the Philharmonic, from the Palaexpò with the Quadrennial to the Casa del Jazz and the Casa del Cinema. ‘from the logo chosen for this’ Roman Summer’: the 1925 painting by Umberto Prencipe from the collection of the Modern Art Gallery entitled ‘Clouds of June’, “to look up in the sign of hope”, concludes the mayor Raggi. ( by E nzo Bonaiuto)