Arqueo-Cuba project: archeology and environmental sustainability

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Publication date: 11/07/22

Last updated: 21/12/22

It started today July 11, 2022 in the Municipality of San Felice Circeo the first mission in Italy in the ambit of the Arqueo-Cuba Project: archeology and environmental sustainability for a territorial cooperation to fight climate change.

Two weeks of meetings, seminars, inspections and visits to institutes and places of culture in Lazio; a training programme, coordinated by the Directorate General for Education, Research and Cultural Institutes, which is addressed to the Cuban delegation with a view to mutual exchange and enrichment.

The project

Arqueo-Cuba is a project by international cooperation and training on issues related to cultural heritage and sustainability for the fight against climate change. In line with the 2030 Agenda, the project intends to offer an all-encompassing and inclusive approach to the question of sustainable urban development in Cuba, starting from the recognition of heritage, in its broadest sense of material and immaterial, in the search for environmental protection strategies .

The project is funded byItalian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), following the call for the "Promotion of Territorial Partnerships and territorial implementation of the 2030 Agenda", launched in July 2021 and lasting 36 months.

Partners

City of San Felice Circeo (proposing institution), ARCS Arci Culture Solidarity, Department of Environmental Biology - University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Directorate-General for Education, Research and Cultural Institutes of Ministry of Culture,  School of Cultural Heritage and Activities Foundation, Oficina del Conservador de la Ciudad de Matanzas (OCCM), Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de la Habana (OHcH).

The first mission in Italy

Sustainability, education, protection and enhancement of cultural heritage are the themes of the training program of the first mission in Italy of the Arqueo-Cuba project. In collaboration with Italian partners and public and private cultural institutes and places in Lazio, the mission includes a rich program of meetings.

11 July – institutional greetings, presentation of the project, the training program and the partners; focus and debate on the role of education by the Centre for Educational Services (SED) at the Municipality of San Felice Circeo.

July 12 - Heritage and sustainable development by theEntity of Circeo National Park with the director Nicola Marrone, the Tecnostudi Environment Company and thePangea Onlus Institute.

13 July – Focus on archaeological restoration and the protection and enhancement of underwater archeology by Superintendency of Archaeology, fine arts and landscape for the provinces of Frosinone and Latina together with the Port Authority of San Felice Circeo and the Maritime District Office of Terracina.

14 July – visit to the Circeo National Park and in-depth study of the naturalistic and botanical aspects by Giovanni Salerno, Botanical Garden of Rome.

15 July – visit to Ninfa and the historic gardens by Roffredo Caetani Foundation.

July 18 – visits to Archaeological Park of Cerveteri and Tarquinia with a focus on digital tools for the use of archaeological heritage and others Territorial Museum of Lake Bolsena.

July 19 - Focus on "Underwater archeology: from protection to enhancement" with a visit to submerged site of the Gran Dipper in the lake of Bolsena by the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the province of Viterbo and Southern Etruria.

20 July – activity by School of Cultural Heritage and Activities Foundation and of the Directorate General for Education, Research and Cultural Institutes at the institutional offices and a visit to the botanical garden.

July 21 – visit ofCentral Institute for Restoration (ICR) with in-depth analysis of laboratory activities and archaeological finds and Central Institute for Graphics (ICG) with a visit to the control room of the Trevi Fountain.

22 July – activity organized by the Sapienza University: Museum complex and Botanical Garden of Rome.

23 July – visit to the Area archaeological site of Ostia Antica e portus, Isola Sacra necropolis, Ostiense museum and Fiumicino Ship Museum by Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica.

Arqueo-Cuba Program – Italy Mission 1

Detail of the program (July 11-15)

Detail of the program (July 18-23)

The first mission to Cuba

The mission in Italy follows the fact-finding and organizational mission that took place in Cuba in April 2022 which included:

  • a series of institutional meetings with the Italian Embassy in Havana
  • technical work tables with Cuban partners
  • presentation seminars of the project activities carried out by the various partners
  • Finally, an initial survey of the project target areas both in Havana (Havana Archeology Cabinet, Archaeological Museum, Real Fuerza Museum, slopes of the Cabana fortress, Polvorin of San Antonio, Guasabacoa aboriginal site) and in Matanzas (original church, house of chains, Cañada site and Morillo Museum)

Further information on the project is also available on the page: https://dger.beniculturali.it/attivita-internazionali/progetto-arqueocuba/

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