New lighting for the Pantheon, innovative and sustainable

New artistic lighting for the Pantheon: 150 latest-generation LED lights now illuminate one of Rome’s most significant monuments, with a focus on the environment, as the new system reduces energy consumption, and also from the point of view of aesthetics, as the aesthetic impact of the projectors is minimized and the color effect is improved. The new lighting system also uses innovative and sustainable technologies, and thanks to a control system it is possible to manage all the lights. The project is a collaboration between Roma Capitale - Simu Department and ACEA and was presented yesterday in the presence of Mayor Virginia Raggi, ACEA President Michaela Castelli and CEO, Giuseppe Gola, theArchpriest Rector of the Chapter of the Canons of the Basilica of Santa Maria ad Martyres Monsignor Daniele Micheletti, Rome’s Special Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape Daniela Porro, Rome’s State Museums Director Edith Gabrielli, and Pantheon Director Luca Mercuri. The event inaugurating the new lighting system opened with a tribute to Ennio Morricone by the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, which performed some of the maestro’s most famous compositions who died a few days ago, and the Band of the Rome Capital Police.

“With the new artistic lighting of the Pantheon,” said Virginia Raggi, “we insert another valuable piece in the path of enhancing the city’s places of culture and art. With this new installation, which uses latest-generation LED lamps, we enhance even at night the grandeur and charm of one of Rome’s symbolic monuments, visited every year by millions of people from all over the world. This intervention is the result of a team effort that has combined innovation and protection of the historical features of this splendid and evocative corner in the heart of the historic center. One of the goals of the artistic light projects, moreover, is to boost and relaunch the tourism sector in this delicate phase by restarting from the beauty of our immense monumental heritage.”

“The intervention of artistic lighting of the Pantheon,” added ACEA President Michaela Castelli, “is part of the broad project to enhance the historical and artistic heritage of the Capital that we have been carrying out for some time with conviction and dedication of our people. With these interventions, ACEA also intends to strengthen its bond with the city where it was born more than a century ago”; while CEO Giuseppe Gola reiterated that “LED technology combines the best color rendering with sustainability thanks to the significant reduction in energy consumption, while the latest generation projectors, with minimal aesthetic impact, increase the precision of the optics that enhance the architectural features of the monument. The operational efficiency of the new installation is, in addition, guaranteed by a digital light control and management system that allows for different lighting scenarios and timely maintenance interventions.” Among the most recent interventions carried out by Roma Capitale and the ACEA Group are the artistic lighting of Santa Maria in Trastevere, the Borgo di Ostia Antica, San Giovanni in Laterano, Santa Maria Maggiore, the Dome of the Major Temple and Piazza del Campidoglio."

Rome’s Special Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape, Daniela Porro, argued that “better valorization is what is needed to give more strength to the activity of protection”; finally, Edith Gabrielli, director of the State Museums of Rome, concluded by stating: “The Pantheon, one of the main classical monuments that have come down to our days and, together, an important basilica of Catholic worship and the burial place of the first two kings of Italy, is one of the most visited cultural sites in our country. The new lighting project, the result of a wide and beautiful understanding between various institutional stakeholders, will help improve the enjoyment of the monument, emphasizing during the night hours its role in the urban fabric of Rome.”

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New lighting for the Pantheon, innovative and sustainable

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