Cultural heritage and the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). Objectives, strategies, outcomes

The National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), which will expire in 2026, focuses on key assets of Italian cultural heritage through targeted investments in seismic safety, digitalisation, urban regeneration and innovation, with the aim of making it more attractive, accessible and sustainable, improving tangible and intangible infrastructure through the promotion of a multi-level governance model in line with the Faro Convention and the European Framework for Cultural Heritage. Starting from the identification of the objectives and strategies put in place by the Plan to enhance, modernise and promote our immense cultural heritage, this contribution aims to highlight the results achieved, investigating them according to a number of thematic axes such as the safety and resilience of historical infrastructure, the digital ecosystem and immaterial accessibility, urban regeneration and social cohesion, culture and tourism, resources and socio-economic impact. In this context, it also aims to highlight the potential and limitations of the NRRP’s actions, both in terms of the quality and innovativeness of the objectives achieved and the possible lines of action that could follow the closure of the Plan, in order to consolidate the results obtained and transform the structural interventions into permanent levers, raising the levels of settlement and environmental quality, social cohesion and economic growth in the country.