“I dream of a large museum dedicated to Rome. A project in progress that has already been working on for some time. A museum that does not speak only of antiquity, but with an eye to today, to contemporaneity, to the continuous transformations taking place in the city “. This is what the former mayor of Rome Francesco Rutelli, author of the recent ‘Roma, walking’ (publisher Laterza) declares to the time.news, which today has involved a passionate public in 2 ‘Roman walks’ to discover the capital. The first started from the Orange Garden and then continued towards Testaccio, the second was towards Casilina and Torpignattara with the Mausoleum of Sant’Elena mother of Constantine, the catacombs of San Marcellino, refuge for many civilians during the Second World War world.
And speaking of the City Museum, he adds: “It will be an interactive, multimedia museum that will tell about the urban changes of the city and its neighborhoods, which can also have a social and civil involvement. The space has already been identified, Palazzo Pantanella not far from the Circus Maximus “(continues)
A return to politics? ‘That cycle is over, young people will be our new administrators’
“A new way to present my book and the ‘story’ of the 18 Roman walks. A beautiful collective emotion to find many people together with this sense of community – continues Francesco Rutelli – despite the dramatic period we are experiencing, from which we seem not to be able to to free us. First the covid, now the war and the specter of economic recession “.
A return to politics for Francesco Rutelli? “No return – he replies – Life is made up of cycles. That cycle is over. But I have a lot of faith in young people. There are extraordinary and passionate ones. We must pass the baton to them. They will be our new administrators”.