Overview
- Fondazione Carim has launched the sale process, with document access opening on October 30, offers due by noon on December 22, and bids to be unsealed on January 30.
- Riccione’s administration plans to bid to turn the property into public cultural and social space, building on its current use as an exhibition venue under a lending arrangement.
- Mayor Daniela Angelini says the city will participate without overpaying, citing its responsibilities as a public entity.
- Fratelli d’Italia lawmaker Beatriz Colombo urges retaining the villa’s historical name and proposes a museum on Riccione and Romagna in the twentieth century inside the site.
- Fondazione Carim president Paolo Pasini says the divestment is part of rationalizing the foundation’s assets to support other local initiatives.