“L’Aquila, the miracle of Palazzo Quinzi. It has withstood the earthquakes thanks to mini-restorations”, so titled the daily newspaper “Il Corriere della Sera”, on 20th April 2009, just two weeks after the tragic earthquake that hit L’Aquila and part of the Abruzzi region.
Works for the restoration of the precious eighteenth-century palace began on 24th November 2003, and ended in June 2006. In the 2005 dossier prepared by engineers of the Civil Protection Department of the Abruzzi region, the degree of vulnerability of Palazzo Quinzi was the highest among the public buildings in L’Aquila, even higher than the Prefecture’s, and the degree of resistance assigned to any eventually “severe” earthquake was by far the lowest. In short, the building was predestined to collapse.
Palazzo Quinzi, which has been for over a century a seat for schools, is still there in its place. Damaged by the earthquake of 6th April, but still standing and with damages that the National Civil Protection engineers have called secondary.
SCHEDA LAVORO
