Culture Ministry responds to claims on Leuville estate attic
The rehabilitation works are set to begin at the end of 2023 and meanwhile, it is planned to empty the attic, as well as other parts of the chateau, the Ministry noted, adding in November 2022 the repair and rehabilitation works, worth of €251,895, had begun in the watchman house of the Leuville estate, which would be completed in the first half of 2023. Photo: Foreign Ministry
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The Georgian Culture Ministry on Tuesday said its employees had completed the process of inventorying the Leuville estate and commenced sorting archive materials, kept by the former owners for decades in the chateau attic, for transferring to the library.
The Ministry responded to the information disseminated by one of the social media users posting photos of the Chateau attic, as if the archive materials had been thrown away, and said the materials had been already transferred to the chateau’s library, noting that it was an “attempt to mislead the society”. The Ministry carried out repair works on the attic roof last year before the rehabilitation of the entire chateau, as it had been damaged by the water, the Ministry added.
The rehabilitation works are set to begin at the end of 2023 and meanwhile, it is planned to empty the attic, as well as other parts of the chateau, the Ministry noted, adding in November 2022 the repair and rehabilitation works, worth of €251,895, had begun in the watchman house of the Leuville estate, which would be completed in the first half of 2023.
In its statement, the Ministry also said the rehabilitation works of the damaged fence and the historical part of the wall had been also commenced, with € 376,694 allocated for the projects, and noted under the French legislation the company for the rehabilitation works of the Chateau-Mediatheque-Library-Academy would be selected and the project would be implemented in several phases.
The ongoing works in the estate park, in the value of €12,000, have been carried out on 3.09 hectares, the statement read, noting the Ministry would continue cooperation with the French company Scop Val'Emploi for the development of the park.
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