Signs of abandonment are still there: while it's true that weeds and trash (which ill-mannered people continue to throw over the railings) are being cleared away, everyone continues to enter the Amphitheater, even homeless people seeking refuge.

What happened to the Municipality's plan to revitalize Cagliari's most important monument (along with the Bastion and Villa di Tigellio)? A year ago, the administration, using its own funds (€80,000), began cleaning up the project in preparation for the construction of a system of walkways that would allow Cagliari residents and tourists to truly visit the monument from the inside, all the way down to the underground section, beneath the first level, in complete safety (including for the disabled). For this reason, there was a project (ready and already authorized by the Superintendency) tied to regional funding (budget surplus) that Palazzo Bacaredda had been waiting for for a year. This funding was slow in arriving and stalled everything. Now it seems that the money is on the way: if so, it means that work can begin and the monument will be reopened to visitors, by summer at the latest.

Further details and insights can be found in Mauro Madeddu's article, available on newsstands today and on the L'Unione Digital app.

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