It's time for balance sheets and projects for many Italian cultural institutions: this is the case for the Unesco site of Aquileia, which this morning summed up the 2022 season and presented its programs for the new year.
The last twelve months have seen the return to pre-pandemic numbers for the Friulian town, custodian of an archaeological heritage unique in the world: over 325,000 people have visited the places of culture in Aquileia, led by the extraordinary complex of the
Basilica. Evening openings, walks with archaeologists, educational workshops, tastings, experimental archeology events have aroused the interest of the Italian and international public.
"We have worked on a program focused on investments, projects, collaboration networks - explains
Roberto Corciulo, president of the Aquileia Foundation - and we are presenting ourselves with a shared program for 2023 and with ever greater awareness of the importance and value of the UNESCO recognition conferred in Aquileia in 1998 and which is 25 years old this year.
Aquileia is a World Heritage Site and the key word with which we intend to decline it is dialogue, a value that has always been present in the history of this land".
"In Aquileia we experienced an extraordinary season of restarting - said
the mayor Emanuele Zorino - Aquileia is increasingly confirmed as a place where it is nice to stay, stop, return and this response from visitors and the public of the events (over 100,000 estimated attendance) stimulates us to enrich our offer by expanding the typology of proposals and to make the city, our places of culture and our infrastructures more and more welcoming".