Palazzo de' Mayo, multi-purpose and cultural center for the town of Chieti

In the old town of Chieti, at largo dei Martiri della Libertà and corso Marrucino, stands the palace of the eighteenth-century belonging to counts Mayo, located between the church of S. Dominic and the Provincial Government Building. Its recent restoration is a tangible urban redevelopment by the “Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio della Provincia di Chieti”, and acts as a boost for the cultural, social and economic community. The monumental building, really precious in architecture, shows some important collections of the Foundation's permanent exhibition, an art-library opened to children, rooms dedicated to temporary exhibitions, an auditorium, a garden for concerts and actings, an underground archaeological area, rooms for workshops and two cultural centers international. In Palazzo de 'Mayo, a location of FAI’s day of spring, there was the placement of Mozart’s salons, homonymous subject of the annual music festival of Chieti. The size and the feature of the building have joined with the large architectural spaces, intellectual inputs useful to a modern renaissance of cultural activity. For these reasons, the program of work, initiated in 2004, has conducted with the objective of enableing a new social role of the building in the town and boost the historical heritage from the old town in a contemporary dimension.