Franceschini wants to speed up reconstruction of places affected by the 2016 earthquake

Cultural Heritage Minister Dario Franceschini plans to speed up the reconstruction of places affected by the 2016 earthquake. He said this on the sidelines of his visit to Norcia, the city hardest hit by the Oct. 30 quake, in the third year after the event. “On the reconstruction,” the minister said, “an extraordinary amount of silent work has been done by hundreds of technicians, restorers and volunteers who have intervened since the first hours. A job of cyclopean proportions, important and positive. Of course, much more needs to be done and catch up where there have been delays.”

“The work to be tackled is still very long,” he added, “let’s not forget that more than 4,000 churches and more than a thousand listed buildings have been affected.” Franceschini then remarked on the need to move toward a law text that can be useful in dealing with emergencies that cyclically occur in the country, especially those related to natural disasters. “It is not possible,” the minister concluded, “that every time a natural disaster happens in the first few hours the debate on how to intervene restarts: there is a consolidated efficiency of the civil protection system for the first emergency but there is no framework law for reconstruction after the earthquake. All the experience made here must serve for the future.”

Franceschini wants to speed up reconstruction of places affected by the 2016 earthquake

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