Culture Minister Dario
Franceschini on Monday said Rome's heritage superintendency was
"autonomous" and could not be overridden in its recommendation
that a horseracing stadium on the site of a planned new AS Roma
soccer stadium was a historic building to be preserved. "On
restrictions and opinions, superintendencies are autonomous," he
said. "If I intervened to try to influence ongoing procedures, I
would be breaking the law," he said. However, he said that once
all procedures and appeals have been exhausted, the matter could
come to a "final decision" by cabinet. The hippodrome at the Tor
di Valle site was designed by Spanish architect Julio Garcia
Lafuente and built in 1962. Roma are talking to Rome's
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) administration to see
if a slightly revised and downsized version of their original
project can go ahead and give the club its long-desired private
stadium.
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