Castles renovated with the Superbonus. After Il Foglio, “Farwest” also investigates the case

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Among the 500 thousand buildings that have benefited from the flagship measure of the Conte II government there are also historic (private) homes. By law they should be open to the public, but no one knows anything about it. A new investigation tonight on Rai 3

Years later, the Superbonus continues to be a topic of discussion. And after the articles in Il Foglio, Farwest also deals with the “Superbonus castles”, that is, the historic homes renovated thanks to the incentives introduced by the Conte II government in 2020.

Tonight, on Rai 3, Salvo Sottile's show will return to the topic, explored several times by this newspaper, with the contribution of Luciano Capone . The journalist from Il Foglio will intervene during the episode to reconstruct the story and the short circuit on the Superbonus.

As reported last February 26 , among the approximately 500 thousand buildings renovated with the measure there are also eight private "castles" distributed between Piedmont, Lombardy, Lazio and Basilicata (Enea data), for a total cost of approximately one million euros (1,082,833.15 euros, average cost: approximately 135 thousand euros). These historic homes should be open to the public , this was the condition for obtaining the subsidies, but no one has any idea where they are located and when they will actually be accessible. The renovations, initially excluded, were made possible in 2021 by the then Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini, who extended the 110 percent building bonus to buildings in cadastral category A/9 (i.e. castles and historic buildings) as long as, in fact, they can be visited by the public for at least 12 days a year.

Yet, "as far as we know, no act of commitment has been sent to the Ministry of Culture" in this sense, said Minister Alessandro Giuli in a question time a few days ago. Recalling, (as we had already written here) that the only data in possession of the ministerial offices concerns the medieval castle of Gioiosa Ionica in Calabria, which - following the signing of the agreement between the owners and the municipality - will be open to the public starting in January 2026.

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