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The Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI) is an organization that focuses on preservation. Its goal is to preserve, protect, and restore the Italian heritage and beauty. Its initiatives include art, architecture, and parks. Every year since 2005, the FAI organizes the campaign and contest Luoghi del Cuore. The literal translation is “the places of your hea...

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The new FAI campaign to vote the place in Italy closest to your heart, the Luoghi del Cuore, has begun. The Luoghi del Cuore initiative was inaugurated 15 years ago by FAI, the Fondo Ambiente Italiano. It is a national campaign aimed at raising awareness about incredibly beautiful, but perhaps little known, locations and buildings around the countr...

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The Italian Environmental Fund (FAI) is holding the 27th edition of its "Spring Days" initiative on March 23 and 24, with more than 1,100 sites open especially for the occasion, including 296 religious sites, 227 palaces and villas, 30 castles, and 50 villages across 430 towns and 20 regions. Andrea Carandini and Marco Magnifico, FAI president and...

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Villa Gregoriana Park is located in Tivoli, just a stone's throw from Rome. Amidst the park's beautiful natural landscape, it is possible to find archeological ruins of different periods, perhaps most notably the Villa of the Roman Consul Manlius Vopiscus, a luxurious residence also celebrated by the Latin poet Horace; and on the acropolis, the tem...

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by Antonello Cherchi   Today and tomorrow Italy will take center stage. Seven hundred and eighty monuments throughout the country that are usually closed will be opened to the public. This initiative, now in its 21st edition, is being promoted by FAI, the Italian Environment Fund, with the aim of revealing hidden treasures that perhaps one p...

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  WTI Magazine #47    2014 November, 12Author : buonenotizie.it      Translation by:   A special moment lived on that bench, walking hand in hand on the avenue, a smile pulled in front of a landscape, a stolen kiss close to the door. And the smells of childhood, the sounds of growing up, the looks lost in the beauty of the context. Some places g...

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by Lorenzo Zanini   Italy reveals its beauty and opens to the public the gates of some treasures that cannot be visited during the year. Saturday, March 19, and Sunday, March 20 the event is the 24th edition of the Spring Days of FAI, Italian Environment Fund. The menu of the initiative include over 900 extraordinary visits with voluntary co...

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by Silvia Donati   Italy has the largest number of UNESCO World Heritage sites - 51 - but that number doesn't even begin to quantify the immense (too immense to handle?) heritage of a country that, even in its most remote places, boasts some kind of historical or artistic treasure.   The issue of how to safeguard Italy's - at times cr...

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