The General House renovates its frontage after 60 years of construction
After 60 years of construction, the General House began renovating the frontage of its buildings at the beginning of this year because that area of the building had begun to deteriorate seriously, with cracks in both the house itself and the hotel.
The General Administration decided to renovate the frontages of the General House and the Hotel by taking advantage of an incentive from the Italian government’s tax agency, called “bonus facciate”, which this year granted tax discounts to all those who beautify, restructure or repair the City’s buildings.
“The bonus for facades lasts for one year, which is this year 2021. Therefore, we started all the administrative part last year, and this year we started the renovations in mid-March, and all the work must be finished before mid-February 2022, because the report must be submitted to the municipality before March 2022”, as pointed out Br. Libardo Garzón, Econome General.
In addition to the change of the facades, which have to keep the same characteristics, the walls of the lower part of the first floor will also be washed for legal reasons.
In the future, the General House hopes to be able to maintain the dome of the large chapel, which is in need of maintenance and is expected to be done next year.
History of the General House
The land on which the present General House is located in Rome (55,000 m2) is situated in the areas destined for the “Roman Universal Exposition” (EUR). The building, constructed in accordance with the criteria and needs of the time, was inaugurated in 1961 and rests on the foundations of what was to become the “Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry”. In the 1960s, EUR was the venue for the Olympic Games held in Rome:
In this residential area of Rome, you can admire the “Palazzo dello Sport” by the architect Pier Luigi Nervi (the same architect who designed the “Paul VI Hall” in the Vatican) and a beautiful lake. The central building of the General House now houses the Superior General, the Vicar General, the General Council and a community of brothers who look after the various services of the General Administration.
The building of the former international school was renovated in 2000 to make better use of the facilities for social purposes. Thus “Villa EUR – Parco dei Pini” was born. In 2016 the building was rented to a company, which independently manages the hotel Parco dei Pini, Villa EUR.