Restoration Week kicks off: a week of restorations to be followed live or streamed

Restoration Week, the traveling event promoted by the ICE Agency and Assorestauro during which international experts in the restoration sector will have the opportunity to discuss, learn about, and explore Italian restoration techniques and methodologies directly on construction sites, with tours led by restoration experts that will provide a world preview of the country’s art treasures, started on August 30 and will last until September 4, 2022. It will be a tour with both in-person and live streaming visits to the main construction sites in Naples, Pompeii and Matera.

There are three events, exploring the construction sites of the three cities, which will be possible to follow from 2:30 to 4 p.m. via streaming at theappropriate link. The first stop of Restoration week, scheduled for Aug. 30, is in Naples, with visits to discover the Neapolitan artistic heritage in the company of experts from the Ministry of Culture: the visit is to the Girolamini Library and Monumental Complex, the Villa Galdi in Marigliano, the church of San Giovani in Carbonara and that of Donna Regina vecchia.

It continues on Aug. 31 with a visit to Pompeii, where the restoration industry is working tirelessly to bring to light relics and sites from the ancient city buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The insula of the chaste lovers and Villa Diomede will be the sites covered in the story of this second stage of discovery in Italy’s historical heritage.

Last stop, on Sept. 3, in Matera, the city of stones, where the tour will touch on Jazzo Gattini and the rock churches of the Park of the History of Man as well as the National Museum of Palazzo Lanfranchi, in a never-before-seen itinerary curated by the experts who oversaw the restoration of the construction sites. Visits to the construction sites will take place in the presence of a group of international delegates from Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Cuba, Israel, Lebanon and Albania, “partner countries” of the 2021 edition.

Restoration week will also make a stop at the Fiera del Levante in Bari, home of Restoration on Tour, the 2021 edition of the International Restoration Exhibition scheduled for Sept. 1-3, organized by Nuova Fiera del Levante together with Ferrara Fiere Congressi and in partnership with Assorestauro. And it will do so with two international conferences, also web-streamed. On September 1 at 2:30 p.m. it will be the turn of Heritage and Sustainability. Restoration of Italy’s Historic Cultural Building Heritage, an Inspiration for the World organized by Green Building Council Italia in partnership with Assorestauro and the Order of Architects Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservators of Bari. On Sept. 2, starting at 11 a.m., the Study Day on Restoration in Apulia will feature a presentation of the best architectural and monumental restoration work carried out in Apulia in recent years. Dozens of professionals and representatives of local institutions will illustrate in the conference-organized by Assorestauro in collaboration with the Order of Architects of Bari and the Assorestauro/Salone del Restauro Scientific Technical Committee-the state of the art of restoration and the different approaches used through interesting case studies.

You can register to follow Restoration Week and Restoration on Tour, as well as to be updated on the program and receive a ticket-invitation to access the event, at the links www.salonedelrestauro.com and www.restorationweek.it.

Pictured: restoration site at the Girolamini in Naples.

Restoration Week kicks off: a week of restorations to be followed live or streamed

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