Art Bonus, restoration of Fonte di San Francesco in Perugia is best project of the year

Awarded as the best Art Bonus Project of the year was the restoration of the Fonte di San Francesco in Ponte San Giovanni in the municipality of Perugia. The competition, now in its fifth edition, is organized by Ales Spa in collaboration with Promo PA Fondazione LuBeC, Lucca Beni Culturali, and involved projects that involved 50 percent restoration work, 20 percent support for museums, archives and libraries and the remaining 30 percent support for performing arts activities (music, dance, theater).

“The Art Bonus is the strongest tax incentive there is in Europe to encourage cultural patronage and, since the date of its entry into force, has exceeded half a billion euros in funds raised,” said Culture Minister Dario Franceschini.

Below are the ten runners-up:

1st runner-up Municipality of Perugia, with the project to restore the Fonte di San Francesco in Ponte San Giovanni;

2nd runner-up the “CapoTrave/Kilowatt” cultural association of Sansepolcro in the province of Arezzo with the Kilowatt Festival 2019 project;

3rd place the association “Arena Sferisterio” of Macerata with the project Macerata Opera Festival 2019 - One Hundred Patrons for the Sferisterio;

4th classified the CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia with the project: #Iosonomecenate - #IorestoacasaconilCSS;

5th placed “Fondazione Teatro dell’Opera di Roma” with the project “Support annuality 2019”;

6th classified “369gradi” contemporary culture production center in Rome with the project Eco Logical Theater Festival in Stromboli;

7th classified the Eco di Fondo Theater Association from Milan with the project “Support for 2018 activity.”

8th classified the Municipality of Bagnacavallo in the province of Ravenna with the project of the Cappuccine Civic Museum - Albrecht Dürer, exhibition project 2019/20;

9th classified the National Gallery of Umbria - MiC with the project The “Divine Painter” and his School. Restorations of works by Perugino and the Umbrian 16th century;

10th ranked the Palazzo di Reale in Genoa - MiC with the project “Exhibition Anton Maria Maragliano.”

The proclamation was also attended by Ales President Mario De Simoni, Art Bonus referent director for Ales S.p.A, Carolina Botti, Lubec Director Francesca Velani and Perugia Mayor Andrea Romizi. The latter said, “The most beautiful thing about this Art Bonus initiative is to have reached out to the citizenry. To have involved both important economic realities and a significant part of our population that wanted to make a contribution, be there and participate. The Art Bonus was a tool to ask everyone to reappropriate the city’s history, neighborhoods and also a memory that is important to face the many challenges that await all of us.”

The disbursements received totally covered the cost for the extraordinary maintenance and restoration of the Fountain, amounting to 18,000 euros. This project received 2,314 votes on the www.concorsoartbonus.it platform thanks to a communication campaign carried out by the City of Perugia entitled #FannepArte. The Pro Ponte Association, Consorzio Revisioni, Oleodinamica Palmerini and Cristina Dragoni supported the winning project as patrons.

The Fonte di San Francesco is named after the patron saint of Italy who is said to have stopped at the spring in 1202 to quench his thirst and wash his wounds before being taken in chains to the prison in Perugia after the Battle of Collestrada.

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Art Bonus, restoration of Fonte di San Francesco in Perugia is best project of the year

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