Every year, FAI UK chooses a specific restoration project at a FAI property, thus supporting FAI and its mission. For the year 2024, FAI UK has chosen to raise funds to support the restoration project at the Gardens of Villa Rezzola, in Pugliola, Lerici (Liguria).
Villa Rezzola is an extraordinary example of an early 20th-century historic residence in which the myth of holidaying in the south of Europe finds shape in the harmonious interaction between architecture and nature.
The park is one of the greatest testimonies to the presence of the English aristocracy in this part of the Ligurian coast, an obligatory passage for 19th-century tours.
The overall objective of the project is to restore the architectural design and vegetation of the park, re-proposing and reinforcing its original vocation as a Mediterranean garden of water and shade, to restore a space also intended as a tool to promote a harmonious, cooperative and non-dominant relationship with nature, as well as to raise public awareness of the care of a garden.
Starting from the constituent elements of the garden itself, the intention is to restore, redevelop, and secure an initial large portion that strikes a balance between the two founding matrices of the Park, the formal curation of the high garden and the naturalism of the low park, enhancing the excellent panoramic position towards the Gulf of Poets and favouring visual relationships with the elements of landscape value.
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