Rtaking Italy into account is the first step towards protecting and enhancing it: this is the claim that announces the FAI Spring Days, a now successful event that returns every year in March. This year the most important street event dedicated to the cultural and landscape heritage of our country Yes will take place sSaturday 23rd and Sunday 24th March.
The FAI Spring Days 2024
With 750 places that can be visited for free in 400 cities, thanks to the volunteers of 350 delegations and FAI groups active in all regions, the Spring Days are confirmed one of the most awaited events by those who want to discover the hidden beauties of Italy. From places that are usually inaccessible in large cities and small villages, to the most curious and unusual places, which nevertheless equally tell the story of the thousand-year-old, very rich and multifaceted culture of our country.
750 locations open throughout Italy
“Caring for heritage by telling it” is the FAI’s mission: starting with its 72 properties open to the public during the year, but expanding and enriching this story on the occasion of the Spring Days, when many more wonders will open to the public. A story which, however, is choral and which is based on the participation of hundreds of institutions, associations, public and private bodies which in ever-increasing numbers collaborate with a single objective: to know and recognize the value of the Italian heritage with everyone’s contribution, because it belongs to everyone.
And then the weekend of March 23rd and 24th you will be fascinated by the villages and historic buildings, places of research and innovation, of industrial archaeology, private homes, workshops and places of ancient crafts, places where restoration is underway, places of nature and culture. A weekend to delve into the many realities and stories of the Italian cultural and landscape heritage.
The FAI Spring Days are back, the most important street event dedicated to the cultural and landscape heritage of our country (Credit FAI)
Openings not to be missed
Between the openings more interesting ones can be counted to Rome, extraordinarily, the Ministry of Agriculture with its very rich Parlamentino, with sumptuous Art Nouveau decorations. But then also the Minister’s study, the reception room and the Library where almost a million documents are kept. To Venice the seventeenth century Palazzo Labia, operational and representative headquarters of the Rai del Veneto since 1964. The sumptuous baroque residence houses important cycles of frescoes created by Giambattista Tiepolo in the Ballroom and in the Hall of Mirrors. You can also visit the Rai offices Of Palermowhere the public will discover the environments dedicated to TV production, e Of Turinwhere you will exceptionally enter the television studios.
Palazzo Carpano in Turin
Always at Turin will open Palazzo Carpano, formerly Asinari di San Marzano, a noble residence from the second half of the seventeenth century, in the past a meeting place for politicians and men of letters and the historic headquarters of the Carpano company. Furthermore, it will exceptionally reveal thePiedmontese Academy of Violin Makingat the nineteenth-century Monumental Complex of San Filippo Neri, where FAI members, accompanied by the students themselves, will be able to discover the laboratories where bowed and plucked string instruments are designed, created and tested.
TO Milan the public will discover the headquarters of Dolce&Gabbana Beauty, created in 2023 in the spaces of the former nineteenth-century monastery in via Kramer, the setting for an important architectural recovery and redevelopment project. Furthermore, the monumental building that houses the law firm will be accessible for the first time DLA Piper, a stone’s throw from the Duomo. TO Naples they will open the Rectorate and the historic Aula Magna of the Federico II University restored following the 1980 earthquake.
In Bologna with Wagner and Verdi
In the heart of Bologna will open one of the most important places for Italian musical culture, the Municipal Theatre, currently closed for renovation works. You will admire the Respighi Foyer with its splendid bronze bas-reliefs of Wagner and Verdi, then enter the Hall, now without the usual seats, and the “Mystical Gulf”, the Orchestra Pit, until you go on stage.
From Messina to Agrigento
TO Messina it will be possible to enter inside Piacentini Palace, the Court, inaugurated in 1928, and observe the places where magistrates exercise their functions. And it will be possible to visit the Courts, appreciating the symbolism linked to the divine role of the law. Still ad Agrigento the nineteenth-century building will be open to visitors Villa Genuardi, today the seat of the Superintendency of Cultural Heritage, characterized by a magnificent garden, full of rare botanical specimens. All appointments can be consulted on the portal of the Italian Environment Fund.
Volunteers, the backbone of FAI
A special thanks to which the Fund is particularly keen is to its volunteers who «translate the values of the FAI into concrete gestures – underlines the President Marco Magnifico – Without them, the FAI would not be what it is. The territorial network is made up of passionate people who have chosen to dedicate their free time to spreading the Foundation’s values. And it is only thanks to their inexhaustible commitment that events like these can be organised Spring days and the Autumn Daysit’s a rich calendar of events all over Italy”.
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