The Municipality of Forio has issued landscape authorization for work at the Santa Caterina da Siena school complex in Monticchio, holding that the Soprintendenza's negative opinion arrived out of time, according to Il Golfo 24.
The project provides for partial demolition and reconstruction to reduce seismic risk and improve energy efficiency at the complex.
The school is a public lower-secondary school at Monticchio, in the territory of Forio, listed with school code NAMM27900C.
The Local Landscape Commission had given a favourable opinion in August 2026, according to Il Golfo 24. The Soprintendenza requested additional documents in October 2026 and then issued a negative opinion on 9 November 2026.
Forio considers that negative opinion ineffective because, in its view, it was notified after the deadline set by Article 146 of the Cultural Heritage Code, so silence-assent had formed.
Under the ordinary landscape-authorization procedure, the Soprintendenza gives its opinion within 45 days of receiving the proposal, while requests for additional documents suspend the deadlines, according to the Soprintendenza for Parma and Piacenza. How that 45-day rule and the October request for additional documents affect the deadline in the Forio case remains to be tested against the full records.
The cost of the works and the construction timetable have not been announced. No public reply by the Soprintendenza to the Municipality's position has been reported.
