A military representation of the "Sassari" brigade in service in Rome for the "Safe Roads" operation went to the Piazza del Campidoglio for a guided tour of the Capitoline Museums, one of the oldest, richest and most fascinating exhibition complexes in the world that prestigious collections ranging from prehistory to modern and contemporary art, from treasures to projects to enhance the historical-cultural heritage.
Access to the Capitoline Museums is the first of a series of fixed appointments that will take place twice a week and is one of the many ways through which the soldiers of "Safe Streets" free of service will know the cultural heritage of the city in a conscious and stimulating way. , a common and shared good, to be appreciated and protected.
In particular, the staff of the project will benefit from the initiative Grouping Lazio Abruzzo a "Sassari" brigade, the unit of the Army that since 15 last January took over the operation in which some 2.000 military are employed with the task of ensuring the safety of about 160 sensitive sites, present in the majority in the capital .
The project, created at the behest of the commander of the "Sassari" Brigade, General Andrea Di Stasio, was welcomed by the Rome mayor Virginia Raggi and the superintendent Claudio Parisi Presicce, with a view to increasingly consolidating the relationship reciprocal collaboration already existing between capital Rome, Capitoline Superintendence for cultural heritage and Army and as a sign of gratitude for the generous and exemplary commitment lavished by the military of the "Sassari" brigade in favor of the community.
The Capitoline Museums are the oldest public museum in the world.
The complex, founded in 1471 by Sixtus IV with the donation to the Roman people of the large Lateran bronzes, is divided into two buildings which, together with the Palazzo Senatorio, delimit the Piazza del Campidoglio, the Palazzo dei Conservatori and the Palazzo Nuovo.
