They are coming back Fay days of spring and the meeting with beauty resumes, an unexpected, unusual, secret beauty that few people know about, but which on the weekend of March 25 and 26 we will all have the opportunity to (re)discover all over Italy. They will be open on the weekend 750 locations in 400 Italian cities, including villas, castles, private houses, public foundations, gardens and monasteries, to discover the most hidden and precious face of Bel Paese. with a minimum mandatory contribution of 3 euros for non-members. However, a list of reserved items is available to members and is available free of charge after booking. But let’s see in detail some of the places you can’t miss this weekend.
Fai days in Milan
In addition to Villa Necchi Campiglio and Palazzina Appiani, Fai sites in Milan that will be open to the public, the city will be able to visit Rai headquarters on Corso Sempionebuilt in 1939 by Gio Ponti. Edison Buildingl’Institute of the Blind at Palazzo Barozzi on Via Vivaio andSny San Siro Racecourse, opened in 1920 by Paolo Vietti Violi. Here, in particular, unpublished stops are planned at the Liberty Tribune, recently restored and returned to its former glory, in Tondino, in the Sala della Bilancia, with the jockeys’ dressing rooms, in the saddle, and also in the veterinary / anti-doping area, where horses are checked before the races. They are always open in the city Palazzo Clericifamous for the Giambattista Tiepolo Gallery, sea palacewhere, among other things, you can see the Sala della Giunta, with fragments of frescoes by Tiepolo, Green housewhich requires an Ffp2 mask as a home for the elderly, with a new room dedicated to the historic collection of gramophones, andAmbrosianeum or Rotunda del Pellegrini 1573 on Via delle Ore. Fai members only, but the entrance is already sold out, the doorsArchbishopric and gods Pirelli headquarterswhere, by the way, is the fifteenth century Villa Bicocca Arcimboldi.
Fay Days in Lombardy
Of the 750 places you can visit, only 138 are in Lombardy alone, most of which are usually inaccessible. Leaving Milan, you can visit Medici castle in Melegnano comes from the thirteenth century. While in Inzago, a walk through the historic center is organized with various stops between the Oratorio SS Rocco and Ambrogio, some villas with gardens on Naviglio and Palazzo Piola. After moving to Arcore, you can visit i Baroque gardens of Villa Ravizzaand in Comerio (Varese) Park of Villa Tatti Tallacini. In Pavia, you can visit the restored lodges, stalls and stage. Fraschini Theaterwhile inMonza National Circuit a press centre, a gallery of historical photographs, a briefing room, a ladder of champions, through which the pilots ascend to the podium, and a control room will be open to visitors. In Osnago, Lecco, it is open to FAI members. Villa Arese Luchiniluxurious residence of the eighteenth century, and in Brescia it can be visited by everyone New pawnshop in baroque style. You can visit the Center only on Sunday Spaziale del Larioin the province of Como.
Fai days in Italy
Moving on to the rest of Italy, we indicate, for example, Roberto Longhi Foundation. Reserved for members of the Fai, with the possibility of registration on the spot, it contains the private rooms of the art historian, including a library and an office, which have retained the original furnishings unchanged. The visible work is magnificent, from the fourteenth-century Tuscan and Po tables to the Lombard and Genoese paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, down to the contemporaries of Carlo Carra and Giorgio Morandi. In Rome, where it will be open to visitors Villa Bonaparte, seat of the French Embassy to the Holy See. Situated in the center of a triangle formed by Via Piave, Via XX Settembre and part of the Aurelian Walls, Villa Bonaparte was immersed in a French garden that was about twice the size of what we can see today.
During the visit, you can admire the historic chapel with stucco by Cardinal Gonzaga, the Egyptian apartments commissioned by Princess Paolina Borghese Bonaparte and the Grand Salon on the top floor with recently rediscovered decorations from the mid-18th century. all rooms are richly furnished with Empire style furniture, partly from the Elysee Palace and paintings from the Louvre. 19th century will be open to subscribers Villa Volkonsky, commissioned by the Russian princess Zinaida Volkonskaya, who built her summer residence here. You can visit the reception villas and alleys of the park, which contain a late 19th-century Victorian greenhouse that houses the family’s most valuable pieces of archaeological collection. On the hill of Posillipo, Naples, we indicate instead Villa Rosebery 19th century, immersed in a romantic garden of 6.6 hectares. A complete list can be found at www.giornatefai.it.
Source: Elle