(Tiper Stock Exchange) – The convent of San Bernardino in Ivrea (Turin), which was the home of the Olivetti familybecomes a new asset of the You do. The announcement this morning, in Ivrea, by Marco Magnifico, president of the Italian Environment Fund, thanks to the donation of Beniamino de’ Liguori Carino, nephew of Adriano Olivetti, and TIM.
The convent with its church, thus reunited under Fai ownership and management, they will be the subject of a major restoration and enhancement project made possible by the funding of 6 million euros allocated by the Ministry of Culture, represented today in Ivrea by Undersecretary Vittorio Sgarbi. The construction site will open in mid-2024 and will last two years: the conservative restoration of the buildings, the regulatory and plant adaptation and the seismic improvement, the re-functionalization of the internal and external spaces for the complete and regular opening to the public will be tackled. It is a total recovery of over 40 thousand square meters of historic buildings and greenery in the heart of the architecture of the industrial city of Ivrea, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
“To Giulia Maria Crespi, on the hundredth year of her birth, the FAI has decided to dedicate this new enterprise in the awareness of the unity of attitude, spirit and purpose who, despite never having met and being part of two different albeit very contiguous generations, links her figure to that of Adriano Olivetti, who, like her, has done good for Italy and the Italians. Two figures equally moved by a moral rigor and an inner and spiritual anguish that drove them (if not forced) their whole lives to dedicate their best strengths to ‘doing good for the Community”, said FAI President Marco Magnifico
“With our donation to the FAI of the San Bernardino complex, an area of over 40,000 square meters which includes wooded and recreational spaces, we wanted to make the territory a unique asset from an artistic and cultural point of view, accessible to the public. There are many initiatives that we are putting in place for the enhancement of Italian artistic and cultural assets, most of which see us engaged on the front of technologies and services for their digitization”, he said Maria Enrica Danish, Director of Institutional Communication, Sustainability & Sponsorship of TIM.
“As happened for the UNESCO recognition of Ivrea Industrial City of the 20th Century and in line with the 60-year history of our institution, also for this ambitious project the Adriano Olivetti Foundation is committed to ensuring that Olivetti’s cultural legacy and values represent the symbolic and above all enduring of an idea of a new world built around the identity between material progress, spiritual values and the ethics of responsibility. And because they represent an opportunity for new development for the city of Ivrea. And of this, once again, we are very proud,” he stressed Beniamino de’ Liguori Carino, Secretary General of the Adriano Olivetti Foundation and nephew of Adriano
The mayor of Ivrea Matthew Chiantore he “thanked all the subjects who in various capacities have contributed and will contribute to the realization of this project of exceptional value. The recovery of the church, with its extraordinary frescoes, the convent and the sports area will offer a great opportunity to promote the site’ Ivrea, Industrial City of the 20th Century” by returning these places to visitors and people from Ivrea. The UNESCO recognition will be the main tool through which to promote a new image of our city and the enhancement of this area will make the use of our heritage even more complete material and immaterial culture”.