Help Italy
stay beautiful

Did you know that some FAI properties overlook the sea or are located just a few kilometres from the coast? From North to South, discover the unique places that we protect every day to make your Italian seaside holidays even more unforgettable.

From picnics and aperitifs at sunset to music under the stars, from nature walks at sunset to observations of the celestial vault, a packed calendar of open-air events and special visits to experience the FAI properties until late in the evening.

Until 8 October 2023 Villa Necchi Campiglio in Milan is hosting the exhibition “Adriano Pallini. A family collection”. Among the works are masterpieces by de Chirico, Fontana and many others. We talk about it with his daughter Nicoletta Pallini Clemente.

The Zegna Forest project is the new forestry reforestation model adopted by Oasi Zegna, which celebrated its thirtieth birthday on 26 May: a programme that reinforces the hydrogeological capacity of the soil, increases the resilience and biodiversity of the forest, while preserving the identity of this natural area on the heights of Biella.

A new multimedia space at Villa dei Vescovi in the Euganean Hills narrates the value of landscape in the past, present and future with the narrative voice of Italian actor Marco Paolini.

The Convento di San Bernardino – Casa Olivetti in Ivrea has been donated to FAI by the Olivetti heirs and TIM. A major restoration project financed by the Ministry of Culture and Compagnia di Sanpaolo to tell the story of Adriano Olivetti’s enterprise in the place that was once the family home.

On Saturday, March 25^th and Sunday, March 26^th, 2023, FAI organised the “FAI Spring Days”, the most important public event dedicated to Italy’s cultural heritage and landscape, with the exceptional opening of more than 750 inaccessible or little-known places.

Continue reading FAI Spring Days 2023: a collective commitment that animates Italy [..]

With 1,500,638 votes collected in 2022 for more than 38,800 places, the “Italian Places I Love” (I Luoghi del Cuore) survey confirms itself as the most important Italian campaign to raise people’s awareness of the value of heritage and the need to protect and enhance it, as is FAI’s mission. Discover the final ranking!

Continue reading The final classification of “Italian Places I Love” (I Luoghi del Cuore) 2022 [..]

Between January and February 2023, a portion of the Bosco di San Francesco in Assisi underwent coppice cutting, to improve vegetative conditions and enhance the different functions of the forest in a balanced – and therefore more sustainable – way.

Continue reading The forest management project of the Bosco di San Francesco in Assisi [..]

After four years of restoration, FAI, together with the Municipality of Morazzone (VA), inaugurates a new Property, Casa Macchi: the exceptional historical testimony of a style of living and a way of life that has now disappeared.

Continue reading Casa Macchi: a typical old house, the last of its kind [..]