(ANSA) – NAPLES, MAY 20 – “Today’s event has great significance for the history of relations between Intesa Sanpaolo and the wonderful city of Naples”. This is how the president emeritus of Intesa sanpaolo Giovanni Bazoli opened the inauguration conference of the new museum opened in via Toledo, in the large former Banco di Napoli headquarters today of Intesa Sanpaolo.
“The Galleria Italia – explained Bazoli – has been in Naples since 2007 in Palazzo Zevallos a few steps from here and today, in the sign of an ever stronger commitment in the city, we inaugurate a new location in Toledo which has three times the museum space. 2007, and which is added to the new headquarters opened in Turin three days ago and to the existing ones in Vicenza and Milan. It is a path of success that sees Intesa play a leading role in the production of culture in Italy. ancient buildings in a building that has existed since 1597 and which since 1940 has housed the Banco di Napoli then entered into Intesa and has now become a museum in a place returned to the city “.
Bazoli underlined the “rehabilitation of the building in a large space comparable – he said – to national and international museums, and which today is due to the architect Marcello De Luca. We use art and culture to draw moral strength in dramatic moments. that shocked Europe: ‘It is the energy of culture that must help us to stop the war’, said the President of the Republic Mattarella, inaugurating Procida, the capital of culture “. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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