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Stéphane Gaillard Wakes Up Rome's Villa Medici

Published on , by Vincent Noce

Since Muriel Mayette's departure, he has been acting in the interim as director of the famous villa, the French Academy in Rome. A return to its roots. 

Sebastiano Luciano, Académie de France à Rome. Stéphane Gaillard Wakes Up Rome's Villa Medici

Sebastiano Luciano, Académie de France à Rome.

The Villa Medici has been run by a deputy director for the past year and a half. Is this usual? Muriel Mayette left on September 16, 2018. There has never before been such a long interim period at the French Academy in Rome. One of the recurring criticisms of the Villa's transformation is the degree to which the hotel facilities have developed... We have inherited a situation introduced by the Ministry of Culture about ten years ago. We now have an obligation to generate commercial income. We manage to find €2 million, with €200,000 to €300,000 coming from the hotel business. To give you an idea, sponsorship represents twice that. But you are right in a way: the hotel business…
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