After nine years, restorers clean the Temple of Neptune in Paestum

After nine years, maintenance work by restorers will take place for the next two months to “clean” Paestum Archaeological Park ’s Temple of Neptune of grasses, small shrubs and other organisms.

Park director Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “Further confirmation of the impression that the temple, in addition to a masterpiece of Greek architecture of the classical age, is also a large biotope, where plants grow and where animals such as birds, bees, lizards, ants and so on live...now this romantic aspect of thebuilding is to be resisted to a certain extent for reasons of conservation, although perhaps it will displease those who prefer to see the temple covered with vegetation as one sees it in the plates of Piranesi, a brilliant interpreter of Doric monuments in the eighteenth century, whom we will remember on July 13 with the opening night of the musical review in the Park.”

He added, “Now we are finally off and running: a tangible result of the financial and managerial autonomy of the Paestum Archaeological Park. But what makes us even more optimistic is that for the next intervention, which will concern the Temple of Athena, we have been able to mobilize a group of local supporters, who are financing the restoration of the monument.”

To reach the highest parts of the Temple, restorers will use a mobile arm with a platform.

The maintenance work is being coordinated by architect Rosalba De Feo of the Pompeii Superintendency.

After nine years, restorers clean the Temple of Neptune in Paestum

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