Starts work on the restoration of the baptistery of Florence

Tomorrow, Thursday, 30 January, begin Assembly of scaffolding for the restoration of the baptistery of Florence, that will be high at the same time on the entire perimeter of the monument.

The scaffolding Assembly will require at least 30 days, After that in March will take away the restoration work itself whose term is expected in the summer 2015.

During installation of scaffolding, for security reasons, will be required of the momentary public closures, which will be communicated promptly to cases of monuments and on the site of the Opera.

Directed and financed entirely dell'Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, with 1 million and 800,000 euros, the renovation will cover the eight external façades and roofing of stone Baptistery: white marble, Meadow green serpentine and porphyry.

It is a conservative intervention intended to eliminate layers of black incrustations and deposits of pollutants, In addition to consolidate and refocus marble elements that have degraded over time. The eight facades of the Baptistery have different States of preservation, both the characteristics of materials for different exposures to atmospheric agents.

The work plan provides, After a general mapping of the State of conservation of the monument and the diagnostic investigations preliminary, a campaign of cleaning to be carried out tests on all the most important areas for features and problems in order to identify the most appropriate intervention methodologies for the conservation of the work and the most effective time planning.

The last General restoration on the baptistery of Florence is to run 70 years ago, from 1938 al 1944.

The restoration of the baptistery of San Giovanni Battista is part of a larger redevelopment project in Piazza del Duomo in Florence, Center of the Museum system of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, that also includes the cleaning and restoration of all marble facades of monuments totaling 40 thousand square meters.

This type of intervention is a fundamental part of the Mission of the Opera for over seven centuries.

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By the number 3 – The Year of 29/01/2014