Giuli: "We will nominate Ostia Antica as a UNESCO heritage site"

For the Minister of Culture "it is the Pompeii of Rome, too important to be abandoned"

"If the Ministry of Culture takes on the commitment to hinge the candidacy of Ostia Antica as a UNESCO heritage site? The answer is yes ." This was stated by the Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli, guest of the Fratelli d'Italia party at the Eur lake in Rome. " Ostia is our Pompeii - added Giuli -. It is something unique, an orthogonal projection of Rome and, therefore, Ostia is also caput mundi". A place "that restores the grandeur and beauty of the historical stratifications of Italian identity", the minister emphasizes.

Who recalled how the ministry has "promoted extraordinary discoveries, such as the oldest Jewish ritual bath in the world". Now, the minister underlined, "we need to give the citizens of Ostia a vision, the candidacy must be accompanied by urban regeneration , integration of the ancient with the contemporary and relaunching of the local administration. Ostia is too important to be abandoned". The president of the Lazio region Rocca "fully agrees, we at the ministry are here, we want to transform Ostia into a symbol of international attraction", added Giuli.