The Herculaneum Archaeological Park has launched the enhancement protocol for Villa Sora

The Herculaneum Archaeological Park is hard at work on Villa Sora, which has come into the care of the park, with an intervention to secure and plan new excavations and restoration, and intends to undertake an experimental program of shared and participatory protection, enhancement and promotion of the site.Last March 6, there was the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the municipality of Torre del Greco and the establishment of a permanent discussion and consultation table open to third-sector associations, educational and volunteer institutions with the aim of increasing knowledge and enjoyment of the site. Villa Sora is the only Roman villa in the Vesuvian area still facing the sea of the Gulf of Naples. Before the eruption that buried it in 79 A.D. along with Herculaneum, Oplontis, Pompeii and Stabia, the villa took advantage of the natural slope of the ground and was built on terraces sloping down toward the sea with structures in view on both the middle and lower terraces, as well as other underwater evidence in the body of water in front of it. Although broken in two by the passage of the historic Naples-Torre Annunziata railway line, it has great potential for development in the UNESCO protected area.

“In the perspective of shared protection and integrated enhancement as envisaged by the Faro Convention,” intervenes Director Sirano “The Park wants to encourage the active and proactive participation of the community through the involvement of the various protagonists operating in the area, with the intent to stimulate and strengthen the network of relationships and to activate cultural initiatives for the better and more extensive enjoyment of the archaeological heritage. At the same time we are preparing to extend also on Villa Sora the protocols of planned maintenance already active in Herculaneum through a process of study, documentation and application of the criteria of analysis of degradation that must be the basis of any conservation intervention, always with the support of the professionals of the Packard Humanities Institute.”

“I have repeatedly had the opportunity to talk with the Director of the Archaeological Park of Herculaneum, Francesco Sirano,” says Mayor Luigi Mennella, “And we have always agreed on the need to give new impetus to Villa Sora. A synergy that will also lead us, among other things, to convene a technical table, at which sit all the actors of a program of revitalization of the property that can no longer be postponed and that indeed today can concretely be implemented thanks to the presence of specific financial resources.”

The Herculaneum Archaeological Park has launched the enhancement protocol for Villa Sora

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