I can’t say for Italy but in France it’s basically free indeed. Maintenance costs are high and the repairs must follow strict patrimony preservation rules with certified workers.
That is where you spend your money in practice. There is not enough state money to maintain all the castles. To be fair, there are a fuckton of them, even though our government is garbage, we can’t realistically justify to maintain all of them anyway.
I can’t say for Italy but in France it’s basically free indeed. Maintenance costs are high and the repairs must follow strict patrimony preservation rules with certified workers.
Do they pay for the renovation costs too, or is that where you’re actually spending all your money?
That is where you spend your money in practice. There is not enough state money to maintain all the castles. To be fair, there are a fuckton of them, even though our government is garbage, we can’t realistically justify to maintain all of them anyway.