For her birthday, US pop icon Madonna takes a look around the sunken Roman city of Pompeii. She comes across a special youth project – and spontaneously shows herself to be generous.
Surprising donation announcement in Pompeii: US pop icon Madonna visited the excavation site of the sunken city in southern Italy on her 66th birthday. During her visit on Friday evening, Madonna spontaneously announced that she would cover the costs of a theater project for young people and children from the region for a whole year, as the archaeological park announced. The annual budget of the project is 250,000 euros.
On the evening of her birthday, Madonna was given a tour of the city, which was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, by the German director of the archaeological site, Gabriel Zuchtriegel. She then met the group from the “Sogno di Volare” (in English: “I dream of flying”) project, which was performing a classical play in the Teatro Grande in Pompeii.
This is what lies behind the youth project
“Sogno di Volare” is promoted by the archaeological park with the aim of involving the local population in the cultural life of the Unesco site. It is intended to address, support and encourage young people from the area around Pompeii in the southern Italian region of Campania. The area still struggles with a relatively high school dropout rate, youth unemployment and emigration.
Madonna has been in Italy for a week now. First she was in Portofino on the Italian Riviera in Liguria as a guest of the designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana (Dolce & Gabbana). Later there were rumors of a mega party in Pompeii, which ultimately turned out to be a private visit. Madonna, whose ancestors come from the Adriatic region of Abruzzo and emigrated to the USA, has vacationed in Italy several times.
Source: Stern
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