Milan joins the Network of Napoleonic Cities with the Royal Palace

The guidelines for Milan ’s membership in the Fédération européenne des cités napoléniennes, the European Federation of Napoleonic Cities, have been approved. The European Foundation of Napoleonic Cities (FECN) is a nonprofit association based in Ajaccio, France, founded in 2004 at the instigation of Charles Bonaparte (a descendant of Napoleon) and representatives of seven municipalities in different European countries whose history was influenced by the figure of the condottiere. The aim of the association is to create a network of cities, sites and cultural institutions to promote, in a European dimension, the enhancement of the cultural heritage of the Napoleonic era.

With the Royal Palace, Milan thus enters the Circuit of Napoleonic Cities, and the Palace is included in a European network with which to share perspectives on the development of the cultural heritage of the Napoleonic era, thus receiving support in the preservation and restoration of the heritage.

“After joining the Circuit of the Royal Palaces of Europe, the Royal Palace now joins a new network that aims to enhance the architectural complex not only as a venue for temporary exhibitions, but also as a residence-museum, to be visited for its rooms and furnishings,” said Culture Councillor Tommaso Sacchi. “The Throne Room, Ministers’ Room or the apartments will also be able to be visited regardless of the temporary exhibitions hosted in the other rooms. In the meantime, we are working, in view of the great appointment of 2026, on the reconnaissance of the furnishings lent in institutional venues around the world, and the recovery and restoration of many important elements of the Napoleonic-era furnishings, with the aim of bringing out the beauty and historical-artistic bearing of an internationally recognized venue such as the Royal Palace.”

As of 2019, in fact, an extensive project is underway to restore some of the original furnishings, the historical reconstruction of the Throne Room, which Napoleon Bonaparte had specially made for his coronation as King of Italy in 1805, and the restoration of the large and precious Centrotavola by Giacomo Raffaelli, commissioned from the Roman mosaicist for the banquet in honor of Napoleon at his coronation, now on permanent display in Sala Quattro Colonne.

As part of the enhancement, the restoration of one of the Napoleonic thrones in the Royal Palace has also been underway since July.

Milan joins the Network of Napoleonic Cities with the Royal Palace

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