Beauty is not just a gift: it is a responsibility. To remind you, with intense and in -depth words, the president of the Republic of Sergio Mattarella was during the meeting in the quirinal with a delegation of the FA – Fund for the Italian environmentThat is celebrating its 50th birthday this year. A precious opportunity to think about how close the relationship between the environment, culture and identity is close by
The Italian Environment Fund meets Mattarella in the quirinal
“Rianima” Forgotten places: not only recover or to retain them, but stand back and function them in the community. This is the great merit that is recognized by President Sergio Mattarella FA – Fund for the Italian environment. By restoring treasures of art, nature and history, the fund was able to listen and make the invisible mind live that makes every place unique.
Of the allocation of Cala Junco in Panarea to the restoration of the Torba monastery (Gornate Olona, Province of Varese – in the cover photo), a lot of assets have been sent back to the public, saved by relegation and oblivion. Each intervention represents a new life for a fragment of our collective heritage.
Not just restoration: the challenge of the internal areas
Mattarella has placed a special emphasis on the need to treat even the most vulnerable areas: small cities, small islands and internal areas, often victims of depopulation and abandonment. “It’s not about balming”Warns the president, but to make these places alive, able to offer new social and economic energy.
The FAI has played a groundbreaking role in this, in which forgotten places in sustainability and quality of life to transform, concrete examples of an Italy that can be reborn from its roots.
Man and surroundings: a common destination in the words of Mattarella
“The fate of man and that of the environment has never been so intertwined”Repeated Mattarella. Compliance with environmental activa is no longer just an act of aesthetic protection, but an essential need to take on the major challenges of our time: climate change, inequalities, loss of biodiversity.
The president also remembered the intellectual legacy of Benedetto Croce and his daughter ElenaPioniers in the defense of the landscape as an essential part of collective identity. Nowadays you need a new generation more than ever that is capable of “Increase the horizon of the can”Finding the power in the past to build an inclusive and conscious future.
Italy, a mosaic to be stored
Finally, Mattarella gave a powerful picture: Italy as a suggestive mosaic, composed of infinite maps from history, culture and nature. A fragile and precious work that must be defended with care and patience, because our common identity is born from that layering.
Culture – concludes the president – “He has an enormous force”: leads us to knowledge, mutual respect, dialogue. And above all he teaches us that beauty is not a conquest to be taken for granted, but a collective construction that requires love, dedication and vision.