Italians protest against a new landfill unit near the villa of Hadrian

The Roman authorities are going to organize a landfill near the famous monument of the ancient Roman era - the villa of Hadrian. Artists and other cultural figures of Italian ready to resist

Italian postage stamp featuring the villa of Hadrian. Source: known cultural figures - archaeologists, artists and actors - said on Monday that they were ready to unite their efforts in order to oppose the construction of a landfill near the villa of Hadrian on the outskirts of Rome. "We are literally burying waste under 2 600 years of history, "- said the member of" Save the villa of Hadrian, "Urbano Barberini (Urbano Barberini). February 4 group promises to share" the symbolic closing of "Villa Adriana and Villa d'Este nearby, in March, performances will continue. Legambiente environmental group and the group local residents supported the protesters.

Roman authorities decided to open a dump near the villa after the other municipal landfills were almost overwhelmed. Mindful of the garbage crisis in Naples, Roman officials tried to take urgent action to avoid a similar scenario in the Eternal City.

Construction of the villa of Hadrian referred to as 118 AD, although work on the construction of its buildings continued for decades. It was a once-grand complex of 30 buildings, scattered in an area of one square kilometer. Emperor Hadrian, according to some, not too fond of the imperial palace on the Palatine in Rome, and although the villa on the outskirts of the city was designed for rest, for a time the emperor moved his residence. This rule Adrian Empire sending their orders by courier to Rome. After his death the heirs sometimes lived at the villa, but it gradually fell into decline. In the XVI century, Cardinal Hippolyte d'Este II "brushed" ancient monument, taking for their own villas, many with marble ornaments and statues.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : artinvestment.ru

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