Support for the “The 200 of FAI” project is part of the traditional commitment of the Italmobiliare Group – mainly carried out through Fondazione Pesenti – to promote initiatives, projects, and actions capable of creating a positive cultural and artistic impact on the territory, and to contribute to the enhancement of Italy’s finest excellences, known and admired worldwide.
The 200 of FAI
“The 200 of FAI” are a group of patrons who, together with their companies, support FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano in its mission to protect, care for, and enhance the historical, artistic, and environmental heritage of our country.
Alongside the Fondo Ambiente Italiano since 1987, “The 200 of FAI” help increase its recapitalization fund and finance important restoration projects.
Today, FAI protects 58 properties, has over 170,000 members, and involves millions of people in initiatives to raise awareness and safeguard some of the most beloved places in Italy. This success is also thanks to “The 200 of FAI”
FAI
FAI is a non-profit foundation founded in 1975, modeled after the British National Trust, with the purpose of protecting and enhancing Italy’s historical, artistic, and landscape heritage.
FAI’s activities, consistent with its mission, focus on three areas: the protection of artistic and natural sites; raising public awareness of the value of landscape and monumental heritage; and active mobilization to protect landscapes at risk.
PLACES
FAI’s main activity is caring for sites received as donations, inheritances, or under management: woods and coasts, parks and gardens, castles and historic residences, villas and abbeys, as well as smaller assets with high identity value, such as a historic kiosk or an ancient city barber shop.
TERRITORY
FAI aims to increase the number and variety of the country’s historical and natural sites, ensuring representation in every region and working so that these places become active parts of their cultural, social, and economic contexts.
RELATIONS
Italy’s heritage sites increasingly serve as centers of relationships: real communities that, thanks to the structured presence of volunteers, maintain ongoing dialogue with their territories.
PEOPLE
FAI is committed to nurturing the relationship between places and people by organizing large national campaigns to make normally inaccessible sites known throughout Italy. It oversees their restoration to open them to the public and offer unique experiences, also through a rich calendar of events.
EDUCATION AND PROTECTION
With the support of delegates and volunteers, every year FAI organizes awareness, active involvement, and protection events: Giornate FAI di Primavera and Giornate FAI d’Autunno, Sere FAI d’Estate, Mattinate FAI d’Inverno, I Luoghi del Cuore.
Alongside specific activities for younger generations through the Faiscuolainitiatives.
ZERO IMPACT
FAI works to reduce the energy impact of the sites it protects, aiming to achieve European standards of excellence.
SUSTAINABILITY
Fondo Ambiente Italiano operates so that the sites themselves generate the resources needed for their operation, maintenance, and development, always keeping their protection as the primary goal.
CIVIC COMMITMENT
FAI collaborates with civil society and institutions, at both local and national levels, to be actively involved in major environmental debates, defending the landscape and historical-artistic heritage.
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