Ducal Christmas
By Christmas the First Noble Floor will open after a long restoration campaign that has taken five hundred days, ended three months in advance of the agreed date, without even closing the Castle to visitors. Along the Superintendence's lines, in the friendly work area suggestive visits had been organized, during the Cultural Week, led by professionals in charge of the restoration.
In all the rooms at the First Floor, works had been carried out by leading restorators of wood, stucco, gilding, plasters, frescoes, floorings, and textiles: an area of some 1800 square meters, including 15 rooms, two long galleries, over 280 linear meters of curtains, 3700 square meters of plaster , 480 of stucco, 370 of frescoes, 360 of windows, and 420 of restored floors. Special boards - prepared to be walked on by visitors – will allow warm visits in winter next year.
Among the most complex and interesting works of restoration, the Tuscolo Room and the Green Gallery stand out. In the former, strengthening the plafond vault had made way to the discovery of a mid-XVIIc. emblem decorative cycle, hidden between the vault and the floor above for close to two centuries. The frescoes, thus sealed, bring us back to the golden age of the Castle and the learned tastes of Filippo di San Martino, through their elegant themes and fine colours, particularly well preserved. In the latter, the encaust floor of the 1830s has been reconstructed, after having been remade by Umberto Chierici in 1960, due to its bad state of preservation: so the typical “restoration of a restoration” has been completed, after the removal of the damaged surface and the susbstitution by means of an elastomer that – layer upon layer – allowed copying the floor design of the parallel and coeval Art Gallery. The visit ends in the Antechamber of the King's Apartment.
The restoration works had been made a reality thanks to the unwavering support of the Compagnia di San Paolo.
Scaricare la locandina: Natale Ducale al Castello di Aglič
