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Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 October 2022, for the eleventh edition, the FAI Autumn Days return, the great public event that FAI - Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano ETS dedicates every year, in autumn, to cultural heritage and landscape of our country, animated and promoted by the FAI Youth Groups, with the participation of all the Delegations, the FAI Groups and the FAI Bridge Groups between widespread and active cultures throughout Italy. The Delegates and Volunteers of the Foundation, as every year, will make available energy, creativity and enthusiasm to reveal to the Italians the richness and variety of the heritage of history, art and nature that is in every corner of this surprising and unexpected country, and which does not only consist in great monuments or museums, but also in unpublished and unknown buildings and landscapes, special places that preserve and testify small and great stories, cultures and traditions, which are fully "our heritage", and which therefore we are all called to care and protect for present and future generations, as it is in the FAI's mission, first of all by starting to know them, to discover their value.
There are over 700 proposals in 350 cities of Italy, in all regions: wonders to discover, hidden little known and usually inaccessible places, which tell the history and nature of Italy, ranging from archeology to architecture, from art to craftsmanship, from tradition to memory, from ancient to modern, from the city to the countryside. From institutional buildings to civil architecture - hospitals, prisons, schools and universities, and even ports - from churches and convents to private homes, villas and castles, from archaeological sites to modern research centers, from villages surrounded by nature to parks, gardens and vegetable gardens in the city, from workers' villages to craft workshops and made in Italy industries: all this, and much more, is the cultural heritage of Italy that the FAI unveils to the public in two days of celebration, fun, but also learning and awareness. Participants will be offered a non-compulsory contribution starting from 3 euros, which will support the mission and activity of the FAI (the list of open places and how to participate in the event can be consulted on the website www.giornatefai.it ).
Among the most important openings we point out
In Rome, the Corsie Sistine will open exclusively, a 120-meter-long treatment room, built at the end of the fifteenth century for the Santo Spirito in Sassia complex and decorated with a cycle of frescoes in which the same workshops of artists of the Sistine Chapel. Part of the same complex, with opening reserved for FAI members, the Palazzo del Commendatore and the Lancisiana Library, built in the mid-sixteenth century, with sumptuous frescoed rooms and a collection of rare texts from the sixteenth century onwards.
Exceptionally, in Milan will be Palazzo Diotti, seat of the Prefecture, which hosts the heads of state visiting the city. Noble residence of the late eighteenth century, it is characterized by neoclassical staircases, refined furnishings, a room frescoed by the young Andrea Appiani and numerous monumental rooms.
A Venice, in the Castello district, the Complex of San Francesco della Vigna, with the facade of the church, full of masterpieces, created by Andrea Palladio and - on Sunday visits - the cloisters and the extraordinary vineyard, which has overlooked the Lagoon for 600 years north.
In Turin, the Einaudi Campus, designed by the English star architect Norman Foster and included by CNN among the 10 most spectacular university buildings in the world, also for its inclusion in the landscape;
In La Spezia, the port - never open to the public because it is always operational - in an evocative path that will combine past, present and future, starting from the end of the Second World War, when the La Spezia port became the starting point for those who escaped the Nazi concentration camps at the vault of the Holy Land;
In Bologna, Palazzo Vassé, with frescoes from the end of the sixteenth century and the “Galleria della Meridiana”, a long room with a seventeenth-century solar calendar represented on the floor and two holes in the ceiling that allowed to follow the nocturnal movement of the stars;
San Patrignano, the recovery community founded in 1978, will open its doors in Coriano (RN), where visits will focus on high craftsmanship workshops, from weaving to leather goods to wrought iron, whose activities will be told by the same guys who work there;
In Florence, a nineteenth-century itinerary linked to Baroness Favard, with two exceptional openings: the City Palace, on Lungarno Vespucci and the country villa, in Rovezzano, both rich in decorated rooms and home to prestigious schools.
In Naples, the complex of Suor Orsola Benincasa, a citadel surrounded by tuff walls built between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries on the Sant'Elmo hill by the will of the nun, a charismatic figure of the time, a university institution from the early twentieth century.
In Palermo, the monumental complex of Carmine, built starting from the fourteenth century, where it will be exceptionally possible to climb the bell tower, from which the view sweeps over the polychrome majolica dome of the church, built in the seventeenth century and over the entire city center.
In Cagliari, Palazzo Bacaredda, an eclectic building that evokes the Aragonese Gothic, built in 1907 as the seat of the Town Hall, a function it still holds today. Among other things, you will enter the Mayor's office, which preserves a large Flemish tapestry, a late sixteenth-century masterpiece, and in the Sala dei Matrimoni, adorned with a pictorial cycle dedicated to Love in Sardinia.
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