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Josef Albers. Meditations, a unique presentation of paintings by Josef Albers, opens at the Villa e Collezione Panza in Varese, Italy, from 9 April 2026 to 10 January 2027. The exhibition brings together 29 rarely seen masterpieces from Albers’ Variant/Adobe and Homage to the Square series in a lean and spacious arrangement that gives an unprecedented sense of the poetry and alchemy of these paintings.

Until mid-September 2026, FAI’s historic properties will remain open into the evening, inviting visitors to experience Italy’s cultural heritage in a completely new light. FAI Summer Evenings returns with a three-month programme of special events designed to transform every summer evening into a memorable, multisensory experience.

The Giardino della Velarca in Ossuccio, on Lake Como, has been restored and reopened to the public, completing the conservation of Velarca, the extraordinary house-boat designed by the Milanese architectural practice BBPR in 1959 and reopened by FAI in 2024.

It only takes a moment to help save the places you love.

Take part in the thirteenth edition of Italian Places I Love (I Luoghi del Cuore), FAI’s nationwide heritage survey inviting people to vote for the Italian places they care about most.

The archive of the Piero Portaluppi Foundation has found its permanent home at Villa Necchi Campiglio in Milan. Furniture, drawings, documents and books are now displayed in a new permanent installation, alongside the temporary exhibition Piero Portaluppi: The Art of Drawing, on view until 18 October 2026.

Graziana Tura Canova has been a member of FAI since 1980 and, together with her husband, has chosen to adopt the Abbazia di San Fruttuoso. Adopting an FAI Property means helping to care for it, following its journey of conservation and enhancement, and feeling a sense of personal connection to it. It is a gesture that brings together heart and reason.

Paper is a delicate material that requires constant care. FAI looks after prints, drawings and documents through ongoing maintenance, targeted conservation work and specialist restoration, ensuring that this fragile heritage can be preserved and enjoyed over time.

FAI safeguards a remarkable collection of works on paper that vary widely in artistic technique, period and provenance, as well as in form and function. The collection includes more than 11,000 prints, drawings and photographs, 40,000 rare books, historical archives and around 700 square metres of wall coverings made of wallpaper and parchment.

Italy’s most fragile territories — its inland areas and urban peripheries — are at the heart of the latest initiatives supported by Italian Places I Love. Twenty new projects across 11 regions, from north to south, will receive financial support from FAI, in collaboration with Intesa Sanpaolo.

FAI has announced the start of construction on the Padiglione Brion, a project that will transform an ordinary villa into a visitors’ reception and services centre for the Brion Memorial, while also serving as an example of urban regeneration that enhances the surrounding area.

Spring arrives with FAI: discover the unmissable events taking place throughout April and enjoy the longer days surrounded by art, nature and beauty.