Art Bonus 2021, Arena di Verona Foundation wins.

The Arena di Verona Foundation won the sixth edition of the Art Bonus of the Year competition with a total of 38,499 votes received for the"67 Columns for the Arena“ project. The project, the contest website states, is ”a fundraiser in support of the Arena di Verona Opera Festival in awareness of its relevance in the economic context of Verona and its province. It is therefore aimed at individuals and companies who have social responsibility at the center of their interests and who wanted to do their part to defend the identity and economic value of the Arenian Festival, threatened by the international tourism crisis resulting from Covid-19. The idea behind the fundraising campaign was that entrepreneurs and ordinary people, by joining the project, ideally contributed to rebuilding the 67 columns that were destroyed in the 1117 earthquake." A total of 128 patrons contributed.

First place with a Special Award for its victory in the social campaign and second overall is TTB - Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo with the project “Monastero del Carmine di Bergamo,” an asset owned by the City of Bergamo that received 37,508 votes.

In third place is Teatro del Loto - Teatri Molisani of Ferrazzano (Campobasso) with 12,447 votes.

They are followed in order by the Loggiato di San Bartolomeo in Palermo, a project of the Sant’Elia Foundation on property owned by the Metropolitan City of Palermo (12,112 votes); theIpogeo di San Michele delle Grotte in Alta mura of the Municipality of Altamura (Bari) with 10.873 votes; the Piana del Cavaliere Festival 2021 in Orvieto, Italy (8,391 votes); theAntico Chiostro del Convento Certosino in Venice, a project carried out by Vento di Venezia S.r.l. on property owned by the State Property Office (8.166 votes); the Edicola Porta San Gennaro mural painting in Naples, a project by Friends of Naple Onlus on an asset owned by the City of Naples (7,574 votes); the Palazzo Beata Lucia Church in Narni, a project by Azienda Pubblica di Servizi alla Persona Beata Lucia (7,240 votes); the Palazzo ex Arsenale in Turin, a restoration of the Courtyard carried out by the Consulta per la Valorizzazione dei beni artistici e culturali di Torino on an asset owned by the Army Training and Application School Command (6,613 votes).

The Art Bonus Competition is an initiative of the Ministry of Culture, ALES s.p.a and Promo PA Fondazione-LuBeC.

Art Bonus 2021, Arena di Verona Foundation wins.

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