"Su Nuraxi resists. Not only to the passing of millennia, but also to the crisis determined by the pandemic. The numbers recorded in summer 2021 are close to those of summer 2019, the latest pre-covid. A virtuous management that still demonstrates a once, despite the great difficulties of these times, the enormous potential, including tourism, of our immense historical and cultural heritage, on which we want to build a new model of growth ". These are the words of the President of the Region Christian Solinas, who comments on the data of the Barumini Foundation relating to the influx of visitors in the last four months.

Between June, July, August and September, visitors to Su Nuraxi, Casa Zapata Museum Complex and the Giovanni Lilliu Cultural Center were 59,321, compared to 36,654 in 2020. Numbers still lower than the same period in 2019 (86,267), but which show an evident positive trend.

"Finally - says the secretary general of the Tonino Chironi Foundation - after a long period of suffering caused by the covid emergency, and the consequent dpcm that led to prolonged phases of forced closure of museums and places of culture, the Barumini Foundation, structured in various cultural and tourist activities, Su Nuraxi, Casa Zapata, Service Center, can look to the future with confidence ".

"The data of foreign visitors are also comforting - continues Chironi - which confirm a good turnout from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and a significant recovery in attendance from the United States and Switzerland".

Meanwhile, the exhibition dedicated to Barumini and Pompeii continues, set up with dozens of unpublished pieces in collaboration with the Archaeological Museum of Naples. An exhibition focused on the everyday objects of the ancient populations of the two sites, both declared UNESCO heritage in 1997.

(Unioneonline / vl)

© Riproduzione riservata