The European Union has decided not to finance the Venetian 'Bosco dello sport', a new stadium in a green area with a total investment needed, through public funds, of 308 million euros. And the solution that a local politician has provided is to sell Klimt's Judith, a masterpiece owned by the Municipality of Venice, to carry out the project with the profits.
The paternity of the idea is attributed to the councilor of sports of the municipality of Brugnaro, Renato Boraso. "If a solution is not really found, there is an extreme way out to recover the resources: we can sell Klimt's Judith II. In 2015, when our mayor Luigi Brugnaro came up with the idea, the work was valued between 70 and 90 million euros, now it will surely be worth more," said Boraso.
The councillor has claimed that his idea was a joke of April Fool's Day, which is celebrated on April 1 in Italy. Other media also published that day, as part of the celebration, the resumption of the project of the sub-lagoon of Venice, with drawings by the Japanese professor Mizuno Nasaj, but the City Council, on the other hand, has not taken Boraso's idea as a joke.
So much so that he has issued a press release to clarify that Judith "stays and will stay in Venice. In fact, it is now at the Mart in Rovereto, on loan as part of a close collaboration between the two museums. Go visit it if you are in those parts. But soon he will return to Ca' Pesaro!" he says in the document.
But Bosaro has finally acknowledged that his idea is firm and not an April Fool's Day joke. "I mentioned Klimt and his sale - Corriere has a phone account - to finance and relaunch a dream (that of the new stadium) that has lasted 50 years. I also did it in 2015 and we managed to restore the accounts of the municipality, devastated by 25 years of leftist government. "On that occasion we also talked about selling the masterpiece."
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