May 3 kicks off the XXIXth edition of Monumenti Aperti: a major event spread throughout Italy

800 monuments, 87 cities, 19 regions: from May 3 to November 9, 2025, Monumenti Aperti is preparing to enhance Italy’s cultural heritage with a major widespread event involving the whole country. Abbeys, castles, churches, ethnographic museums and hidden and little-known corners will open their doors for a journey into the most secret soul of Italy. A shared journey through history, art and community, which aims to tell the story of the enchantment of a timeless Italy, weaving stories, memories and identities into a collective narrative.

For 2025, Monumenti Aperti bears the title Dove tutto è possibile, an invitation to rediscover Italy’s cultural richness with fresh eyes, allowing oneself to be surprised and making connections between past and future. Each work of art, in fact, holds not only its own history, but also that of those who lived it and continue to guard it with dedication.

From May 3 to November 9, the journey through the hidden treasures of the peninsula will be divided into two main moments: in May, a special focus on Sardinia, with more than 60 participating municipalities along with Benevento, Chieti, Cosenza, Perugia and the Casilino Ecomuseum in Rome; between October and November, an itinerary that will touch the whole of Italy, from Trieste to Syracuse, passing through Turin, Mantua, Venice, Ferrara, Palermo and many other cities, for a total of more than 80 municipalities involved. From the Roman Theater in Chieti to the underground Basilica of Porta Maggiore in Rome, from the stumbling stones of the ancient Ghetto in Venice to the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara; and again from Cagliari with the Punic Necropolis of Tuvixeddu, the largest in the Mediterranean, to Mantua with the Museum dedicated to Virgil, the great Latin poet, to the Pollino Park, on the border between Calabria and Basilicata, where nature and art come together in harmony: each place will be ready to welcome visitors in an experience between memory, culture and beauty.

By returning cultural heritage to the communities that live it and to those who explore it from near or far, Monumenti Aperti 2025 aims to offer an immersive experience and lay the foundations for a lasting enhancement of both physical places and intangible spaces. Not only guided tours, but also concerts, theater shows, artistic performances and moments of discussion with local communities will transform each place into a laboratory of shared memory and participation. This widespread event is realized thanks to the commitment of more than 20,000 students and volunteers, who will accompany visitors to discover symbolic places, lesser-known stories and the identities of territories.

The XXIX edition, coordinated at the national level by the Cagliari-based association OdV Imago Mundi, represents an important milestone: since the first edition in 1997, which originated in Sardinia, there have been more than 4 million guided tours, led by 160,000 students and 60,000 volunteers, telling the story of more than 2,063 monuments in more than 170 municipalities, initially concentrated in Sardinia and later extended to Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, Puglia, Lombardy and Lazio.

Thanks to the support of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies and collaboration with a wide network of the third sector, Monumenti Aperti - awarded in 2018 with the European Union’s Cultural Heritage | Europa Nostra Awards - expands further, taking its cultural mission to every corner of the country.

“Monumenti Aperti is now in its 29th edition, and the important, fundamental milestone of the 30th is getting closer and closer. It will indeed be a special year, next year, as special as this current one is, on several fronts. Above all, because the development of the national dimension has taken on connotations of great importance, thanks precisely to the project financed by the Ministry of Labor, which, in collaboration with the regional ACLI together with numerous cultural operators, allows us to be present and carry out the event in almost all Italian regions. The event is a great space for the enhancement of our heritage where dreams become realities open to endless possibilities, for schools, associations, male and female students, volunteers, municipalities and communities, the historical protagonists of the event,” said Imago Mundi President Massimiliano Messina.

To stay up-to-date on all Monumenti Aperti initiatives, the Monumenti Aperti app and the main social networks are available: Facebook (@monumentiaperti) and Instagram (@monumentiaperti). Free admission.

Places and appointments can be found at www.monumentiaperti.com

Image: Volano (TN) - Church of San Rocco. Photo by OdV Imago Mundi

May 3 kicks off the XXIXth edition of Monumenti Aperti: a major event spread throughout Italy

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