The city council has decided, this morning, to dedicate the gardens of Palazzo De Simone to Maurizio Costanzo. 'Exactly one year after his passing - declared Mayor Clemente Mastella at the end of the session - we proceeded to name the gardens of Palazzo De Simone after Maurizio Costanzo as recognition of the contribution he has made to the world of entertainment and Italian culture, as well as an expression of the particularly dear and grateful memory of the city of Benevento to the memory of the journalist, writer and television presenter who, as is known, was the artistic director of the Città Spettacolo festival for eight editions, from 1995 to 2002'.

Years that Costanzo himself defined as 'happy' in an interview given in 2020 as part of the documentary 'Benevento 40. Stories of Città Spettacolo' testifying to the strong bond established with the capital of Sannio.

'The chosen location for the dedication - explained the proposing councilor, Tartaglia Polcini - is part of an architectural complex recently subject to restoration, requalification and restoration of the spaces of the gardens and the loggia annexed to the body of the De Simone theater, and represents a real open-air living room in the center of the city. Therefore, it is a space that emblematically evokes the memory of the 'living room' linked to the most popular television image of Maurizio Costanzo and, with the spaces adjacent to the theater's foyer, the loggia and the cafeteria/tea room, it lends itself to welcoming, in a frame of particular charm and suggestion, occasions for meeting and open confrontation with humanity, in the style inaugurated by the famous 'theatrical living room' of the Italians'.