Mattia Preti: Un Ponte Tra Italia E Malta/A Bridge Between Italy And Malta

The restoration of Mattia Preti's work of art 'St George and the Dragon', kept in the Co-Cathedral of Valletta, represents a significant success within the cooperation between the Italian and Maltese Governments in the area of Cultural Heritage. It is also a precious evidence of the skilfulness of the technicians of the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro who saved it from degradation.Thanks to its worldwide, constant activity in the field of conservation interventions and restoration of works of art, Italy has reached such excellent levels that UNESCO chose it as the country to which to refer in order to coordinate actions of tutelage of the cultural heritage endangered by wars, terrorist events and natural disasters.