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In celebration of LAPADA‘s 50th Anniversary, FAI UK is pleased to offer members an exclusive VIP Morning Tour of the LAPADA Fair on October 24th.

On Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 October 2024, the FAI Autumn Days, one of the most important and beloved public events dedicated to Italy’s cultural heritage and landscape, organised by FAI-Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano ETS, will return for the thirteenth time.

On display until 24 November 2024 at the Negozio Olivetti in Piazza San Marco in Venice is the exhibition ‘Tony Cragg. The shapes of glass’, curated by Cristina Beltrami and Jean Blanchaert.

“If you try to imagine a world without glass, you realise what an enormous loss it would be, both in practical and aesthetic terms.” Tony Cragg, 2021

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the survey, a renewed communication campaign, simplified ways to participate and increased financial rewards for the winners. Until 10 April 2025 vote for your favorite places. It takes very little to save them!

The historic Simonino Chapel, bequeathed to the FAI in 2018 by Marina Larcher Fogazzaro, has become a classroom. A place to listen to a story from 1475 that has much to teach the citizens of today and tomorrow.

After a long restoration, La Velarca, the houseboat designed by Studio BBPR in 1959, opens to the public: a small masterpiece of modern architectural history moored in Ossuccio, on Lake Como.

The resilience of the carob tree in Sicily, the rediscovery of ancient varieties of drought-resistant vegetables, and the restoration of dry-stone walls are virtuous measures that belong to the history of our rural landscapes and that today, in the face of the challenges posed by climate change, can represent the future.

Nature walks at sunset, aperitifs at sunset, music and shows under the stars, short astronomy lessons. A full calendar of events and special visits to experience FAI properties until late in the evening.

FAI presents “Nel tempo“, an exhibition that, through fifty-nine works by twenty-three artists from the Panza di Biumo Collection, explores one of the most mysterious and complex subjects in our lives: time.

On June 23rd, 2023, FAI announced the donation of the Convento di San Bernardino – Casa Olivetti* in Ivrea. One year on, the Foundation is currently carrying out a wide-ranging campaign of studies and surveys on the entire complex in order to better direct the planning and valorisation choices for the asset.