For the year 2020, FAI UK chose to raise funds to support several restoration projects at the Abbazia di San Fruttuoso, a magnificent Benedictine Monastery of the 10th century, between the mount of Portofino and the Eastern Ligurian sea.
The project focused especially on securing important restoration activities, such as:
– A project of landscape preservation, to help FAI recover the 8 hectares of historic olive groves, supported by dry stone walls, making 800 olive trees productive again according to the principles of organic farming, restore the dry stone walls that contain the terraces, clean the terraced land of the area, build fencing to protect the land from damage caused by wild boars.
– An emergency architectural restoration project, to help FAI restore the columns of the lower cloister. The small lower cloister of the Abbey dates back to the tenth century. In the sixteenth century, the cloister was raised with a second order of columns, made with materials recovered from the Roman and medieval eras. Recently some portions have broken off.
All of the columns need to be monitored and controlled and those that are more decayed need to be consolidated and restored.
– The Adoption of the Hall of the Abbey. This is a naming opportunity at the Abbazia di San Fruttuoso. A contribution can be devolved to the adoption of the Salone Abbaziale, the largest and most impressive room of the Abbey with an astonishing view on the San Fruttuoso bay through twin rows of Gothic triple mullioned windows.
Naming opportunities exist in every FAI property. If you would like to leave your name or the name of a loved one in an enchanting corner of Italy and would like to know more about this philanthropic gesture, please write to info@faiuk.org.
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