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The cancellation, according to the contract, will come into effect on December 31. And as of January 1 of the new year, the Palazzo Grazioli, Silvio Berlusconi’s historic residence in Rome for more than twenty years, will close its doors forever. For some time, mainly for economic reasons, the Cav had decided to “dispose” of the more than a thousand square meters of the first noble floor of the 16th century building belonging to the Grazioli family, which cost almost 40 thousand euros a month to move to Villa Zeffirelli in the Appia Antica, bought for more than 3 million euros in 2001 and then given for free use to the Florentine director, his friend and former member of the Force, who died in June of last year.
The boxes are ready. The so-called “Blue Parliament” where the “plenaries” of Forza Italia and the more restricted summits were held, is closed. The offices on the ground floor, the ones facing Via della Gatta, are also closed, with some employees at risk of dismissal or transfer between Brussels (where the Cav is in the EU Parliament) and the national headquarters of the blue movement , which remained open in via in Lucina. although it was significantly reduced for budgetary reasons after cuts due to the abolition of public funding for parties.
It is unlikely, from what we learn, that Berlusconi will be seen in the new house of the Appia Antica: everything will depend on the emergency of the Covid that has upset the agenda of the president of Fi, who tested positive last September and then was recovered after quarantine and a long convalescence. Not to mention, renovation works on the Zeffirelli mansion have yet to be completed.
The former prime minister, they say, will not be able to return to Arcore and remain in Provence, the guest of the eldest daughter, Marina, until the contagion alarm returns, at least until February, early March, when Italy should be out of danger. ” third wave “. In any case, when it is seen again in the capital, the villa on the old Appian Way will be used as a private residence and will therefore be out of the reach of everyone. Translated, there are no processions of deputies and senators and no “post” of journalists to obtain some statements.
With the farewell of the headquarters in via del Plebiscito Berlusconi files an important chapter of his public and private life. And what has been the symbol of Berlusconi’s power for a quarter century of Italian politics disappears. The Palazzo Grazioli, in fact, also because of its strategic position (a stone’s throw from Montecitorio and the Senate) has played a central role in the political career of the Italian leader, 4 times Prime Minister, hosting international summits, party meetings and dinners. . with friendly heads of state and government, like Vladimir Putin, who found himself tasting the tricolor menu prepared by the Cav’s personal chef, Michele Persechini.
Many memories linked to the walls of Via del Plebiscito: joys and sorrows, victories and failures, from the descent on the field of play in 94 to the failure of the last autonomic ones with Fi plummeting to 6% and more and more in crisis after the historic advancement of the Lega di Matteo Salvini to the policies of 2008.
However, the fate of several Forza Italia employees is also linked to Palazzo Grazioli, some of whom were close associates of Berlusconi and are hired under a contract signed by the former head of government. The situation is not easy for them. In addition, according to Italian parliamentary sources, there was the bitter surprise of going to the office and not finding the workplace with computers and chairs removed during the night just when the leader of the force was hospitalized at the San Raffaele by Covid.
Following Berlusconi’s decision to move his Roman residence along the Appian Way, to Forza Italia, in the capital, nothing remains but the national headquarters in Piazza San Lorenzo in Lucina. An apartment of about 300 square meters, rented for more than 130 thousand euros a year, on the third floor of an old building protected by the Fine Arts in the heart of Rome, a few steps from Montecitorio.
According to the last budget of the party, the one closed on December 31, 2019, the “full year lease of the registered office in Via en Lucina 17” is equal to 132 thousand euros, or eleven thousand euros per month. Inaugurated with great fanfare in 2013 (about 3,000 square meters with an initial rental cost of 960 thousand euros compared to 2.8 million per year for the 5,000 square meters of the old headquarters in via dell’Umiltà), San Lorenzo in Lucina risked more Sometimes the closure causes red beads. The lockout came, in fact, in 2015, a horrible year for Fi’s finances and the new blue house has once again been a Plebiscite route. Then, after the Buriana, the reopening took place, so Antonio Tajani and the rest of the senior executives found an ultra-luxurious but shrunken seat: the current 300 square meters with a large room for press conferences.
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