Rumors of an offer from Arnault on the Casa degli Atellani worry Milan

The fear that even for one of the few Renaissance jewels of the Milanese capital a fate similar to that of the Punta della Dogana is looming is a source of anxiety and ill-concealed frustration among the Milanese. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage aims to extend the guarantee on the building

From the Ministry of Cultural Heritage they reveal that the ongoing investments in prestigious real estate in Italy by Bernard Arnault amount to about 900 million, although none of these include significant cultural or restoration projects. But there’s no doubt they’ll get their hands on the too House of the Atellani, one of the few Renaissance jewels of Milan, a property that has identified the city since the time when Duke Ludovico il Moro gave it as a gift to Leonardo (who in turn installed one of his protégés there) and has been owned by the Maranghi families for over a century , Portaluppi and Castellini Baldissera, it will be less easy than you think. Also because, after the news on the ongoing negotiations between Piero Maranghi and Arnault on a possible sale, yesterday morning the ministry immediately consulted the Lombard superintendency to understand whether and how to extend the protective bond that currently concerns a part of the building and of the garden (the Sheet has had the opportunity to consult the cadastral maps), and which was affixed in the 1950s, also to the remaining part, restored by Piero Portaluppi, and to the annexed Vigna di Leonardo, a cultural-vinegrower marketing project of the editor and entrepreneur Piero Maranghi. Vineyard which, moreover, since the years of the Expo has been the destination of tens of thousands of visits a year and on which the institutions had granted loans which they are currently trying to recover and calculate.