• Alberto Sordi's villa opens to the public: it is the first time. Reservation boom

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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 29 February 2020Boom of reservations for the great exhibition to be held from 7 March to 29 June in the Roman villa of Alberto Sordi, above the Baths of Caracalla, open to the public for the first time on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the great actor. Now comes the news that the house will become a museum, as anticipated by the newspaper Il Messaggero.

No more impediments, therefore, to the construction of the museum, a permanent exhibition in the home of the popular Roman actor, born in Trastevere in June 1920 and who died in February 2003 at the age of 82.

The 37 distant relatives, aspiring heirs who had contested the will of Aurelia Sordi, Alberto's sister, lost the case. The ruling of the Court of Rome, rejecting all the requests presented by the heirs, gave the green light to the construction of the museum inside the villa.

Following the ruling of the Court of Rome, the heirs decided to renounce the appeal and this will allow the start of the works for the construction of the museum in the house, beautifully furnished, with period furniture and valuable furnishings put together over the years by Alberto Sordi, with the fruits of his work.

In 2018 there was a failed attempt to block the immense patrimony of Alberto Sordi, trying to put him in seizure but the Court of Rome fully judged the sister's disposition to bring the actor's entire patrimony into the Alberto Sordi Museum Foundation. On the other hand Aurelia in this way has carried out the will of her brother.

Over time, all the requests presented by the heirs to the Forum of Rome were rejected because, according to the judges, Aurelia Sordi, who died at the age of 97 in 2014, at the time of the act was very clear and it was also when she donated sums of money to the driver and other service people who were acquitted of the incapacity circumvention charge.

The ruling thus confirmed the legitimacy of the deed by which the heritage, including the villa built by the great innovator architect Clemente Busiri Vici in the 1920s and purchased by Albertone in 1954, was destined for the Alberto Sordi Museum Foundation of which it is president Italo Ormanni, honorary president Walter Veltroni and vice president Giambattista Faralli.