Dr. Benny Peiser 09.01.2012 18:09 +Feedback
The second destruction of Pompeii?
A Unesco report has identified serious problems with the World Heritage Site, including structural damage to buildings, vandalism and a lack of qualified staff. Unesco’s director-general for culture, Francesco Bandarin, tells The Art Newspaper: “The state of conservation is a problem, because of a lack of maintenance of very fragile structures. Visitor services need a dramatic improvement.” The collapse of a column at Pompeii on 22 December raised further alarm. The column was in a pergola in the courtyard of the House of Loreio Tiburtino, whose adjacent rooms have very fine frescoes. The Unesco report says that the “conditions that caused [the Schola Armaturarum] collapses are widespread within the site”. Full story
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