{"id":41770,"date":"2013-10-12T17:23:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T13:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=41770"},"modified":"2013-10-12T17:23:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T13:23:54","slug":"hard-up-italy-to-sell-50-historic-sites-in-bid-to-raise-425million-to-pay-off-government-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=41770","title":{"rendered":"Hard-up Italy to sell 50 historic sites in bid to raise \u00a3425million to pay off government debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/italy-Orsini-Odescalchi-castle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41768\" alt=\"italy-Orsini Odescalchi castle\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/italy-Orsini-Odescalchi-castle.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/italy-Orsini-Odescalchi-castle.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/italy-Orsini-Odescalchi-castle-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/italy-Orsini-Odescalchi-castle-483x300.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>The Italian government is to sell scores of historic properties to help it tackle its huge budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p>A haunted fortress, a cardinal\u2019s palace and an island in the Venetian lagoon are among 50 sites for sale.<\/p>\n<p>The move recalls 2012, when Greece was forced to sell off some its beautiful islands to foreign buyers, to chip away at its enormous debts.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian government hope that the nation\u2019s treasures will be bought by private businesses and converted into hotels, restaurants and museums, bringing much needed employment and international investment.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for the economy Fabrizio Saccomanni aims to make \u00a3425million from the sell-off.<\/p>\n<p>It was approved as part of an emergency decree aimed at keeping Italy\u2019s 2013 budget deficit within 3 per cent to avoid corrective action by Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Kill Public Debt\u2019 plan originally listed 350 properties but officials now deem that some assets, such as military airbases, are poorly suited for the commercial market.<\/p>\n<p>The properties include Orsini Castle, which sits above its own feudal village near Viterbo, about 60miles from Rome.<\/p>\n<p>The medieval fort was built for Pope Nicholas III in the 1270s and has a Euro 15 million price tag. Said to be haunted, it was used as a prison from the mid-19th century to 1989 and has since been an art gallery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian government is to sell scores of historic properties to help it tackle its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}