The Fondo Ambiente Italiano (the National Trust of Italy) presents the FAI Spring days 2022 - 30th year
Guided visits on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 March
Thirty years of civic and educational passion
These words encapsulate the spirit of the 30th edition of the FAI Spring Days scheduled for Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 March 2022. Thirty years is an exciting milestone, but it cannot be just a celebration.
In the midst of a war that tragically marks Europe's history, this is not the time to celebrate, nor is it the time to invite Italians to distract themselves in the sheer enjoyment of our country's wonders, but rather to focus on the significance and role of the cultural heritage that reflects our identity, bears witness to our history and reinforces the values of civilised living.
The FAI - Fondo Ambiente Italiano | the National Trust of Italy presents the FAI Spring days 2022 - 30th year - in Trento: a series of guided visits over the weekend, entitled "Tra i frati e la Fersina: la Busa di Trento" ("Between the friars and the Fersina stream: the Busa quarter of Trento").
The Busa is the smallest district in the city but also one of the oldest, a small authentic world, inhabited by hard-working families (the "Busaròi") who exploited the water of the Roggia Grande - which began its journey through the city from the Busa - with a marked proletarian and libertarian vocation. A cohesive district that has managed, over the years, to develop and preserve an authentic community dimension and sense of belonging, and that only the 19th century opening of the elegant and bourgeois Via Giuseppe Grazioli has definitively joined to the rest of the city.
Guided tour programme in Trento:
SATURDAY 26 MARCH: 14.00 - 18.00 (last admission at 17.00)
SUNDAY 26 MARCH: 10.00 - 18.00 (last admission at 17.00)
- to the Church and Convent of St Bernardino of the Franciscan Friars
- to the St. Bernardino library and picture gallery in the “Toresela madruzziana”
- discovering the stories and trades of the Busa district
- and, with an exceptional opening for FAI Days, to the Simonino Chapel in Palazzo Bortolazzi.
Each guided visit is independent, and the duration of the visits is approximately one hour.
The list of open sites and how to participate can be found at www.giornatefai.it .
Online booking is recommended as it guarantees access to the visit. Once the confirmation email has been received, visitors can go to the FAI volunteers' desks set up near the sites at the indicated time.
It will be possible to register on site with FAI, or renew expired subscriptions.
Super Green Pass (over 12 years old) and FFP2 mask required.
