New Virgil and Leopardi tomb park unveiled

(ANSA) – ROME, APR 17 – Italian officials including Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli and director if Italian museums Massimo Osanna on Thursday unveiled a new literary and cultural park in Naples at the site where the tombs of the great poets Virgil and Giacomo Leopardi are located.
Virgil was perhaps the greatest Ancient Roman poet and his greatest work was the Aeneid, the story in epic verse of Trojan her Aeneas's journey from Troy to the area where Rome was founded. His tomb is traditionally located in Naples.
Leopardi was Italy's greatest Romantic poet and is regarded as the greatest Italian poet after Dante. He spent his last few years in Naples and is buried in the southern port city.
Giuli said: "The park is dedicated to two giants of our literature and is in one of the most important cities in Italy, Naples, which synthesizes in itself, in its millenary culture, the highest and noblest things in Italian literature, history, tradition and culture".
Osanna said: "It is a day of celebration and it is also exciting to give back to the community, to Naples and to Italy this place that is among the most emblematic of our culture: the park of the tombs of Virgil and Leopardi, the two Bards finally together in a context that does them honour".
He said the project had restored the tombs, revamped the garden and added "an archaeological and botanical path in the name of accessibility: the QR code allows everyone, even the visually impaired and those with cognitive difficulties, to gain access to the information, and therefore it is a beautiful 360-degree accessibility project". (ANSA).
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