After the success of the spring season, with more than two hundred thousand visitors and sixty-seven municipalities involved, the fall edition of Monumenti Aperti 2025 - Dove tutto è possibile, the event dedicated to the enhancement of Italian cultural heritage, is back. Organized and coordinated by Imago Mundi OdV, the event reaches this year its twenty-ninth edition and proposes a new itinerary that, until November 9, will cross nineteen regions and eighty-nine cities, opening about eight hundred sites including monuments, churches, historic buildings and museums to the public free of charge .
The event, which has been promoting the knowledge and protection of the widespread heritage for nearly 30 years, is confirmed as one of the most participated and long-lived experiences of cultural citizenship in Italy. After a first spring phase that recorded record numbers - 17,226 volunteers, 205 associations, 359 schools involved and 59 thematic itineraries - Monumenti Aperti now continues its journey through history, art, faith and community, offering an autumn program full of events.
The autumn itinerary kicked off in Perugia on September 27 and 28 and continues in many other locations. On October 18 and 19 it will be the turn of Ferrara, a city celebrating 30 years since UNESCO recognition. For the occasion, visitors will be able to access the landmarks of the Este Renaissance: Palazzo Schifanoia, with its famous cycle of frescoes of the Months; the Palazzina Marfisa d’Este, a refined aristocratic residence; the Giulio d’Este Prefecture, the heart of the city’s political life; and the celebrated Palazzo dei Diamanti, whose facade is embellished with more than eight thousand marble blocks carved to a diamond point.
On the same weekend, in Venice, Monumenti Aperti will offer an itinerary among the stumbling stones of the Ghetto, in a journey that transforms walking into an act of remembrance, while in Mantua the opening of the new Virgil Museum will offer visitors an opportunity to rediscover the great Latin poet in his hometown.
The journey will continue on October 25 and 26 with a stop in Volano, Trentino, where the Church of San Rocco represents a rare example of popular devotion that has survived over the centuries. In Montefano, in the Marche region, it will instead be possible to visit the “La Rondinella” Theater, a refined 19th-century space, and the Ciclo Museo, which preserves the sports and community memory of the area.
On November 8 and 9, the event will conclude with dates in Bitonto and Turin. In the Apulian city, the Torrione Angioino, an imposing 14th-century structure that was part of the medieval city walls and has now been transformed into a contemporary art gallery, will be the protagonist of a journey between memory and contemporaneity. In Turin, the Museo Diffuso della Resistenza will offer an itinerary of strong civic and historical value, recounting the 20th century through testimonies and documents.
During the five autumn weekends Monumenti Aperti will also touch on numerous other locations, from north to south of the country. In Molise, Frosolone will be visited, in Sardinia Siddi, Capoterra, Neoneli, Olbia, Ozieri and Elmas, in Sicily Syracuse and Palermo, in Liguria Savona and Vado Ligure, in Veneto Treviso, in Friuli Venezia Giulia Trieste, and in Tuscany Campi Bisenzio.
The event thus confirms its national dimension, becoming a great collective tale of Italian heritage, capable of enhancing not only cities of art but also small villages, landscapes and local memories. Each place becomes an opportunity for meeting, knowledge and participation, in a community spirit that has always been the hallmark of the project.
As Massimiliano Messina, president of Imago Mundi OdV, points out, “We have already defined what happened in the spring tranche of Monumenti Aperti 2025 as exhilarating, in terms of participation, number of visitors and usable sites, and reception found and received in the cities involved in the Peninsula. But we were and are aware that we are not even halfway through, because a large autumn window awaits us, never so rich in stages and appointments. Even more massive and capillarized will be the presence of our project-now a permanent cultural workshop and inclusive space for enhancement-in places of great importance and value, from north to south of the Belpaese. We have the conviction that all this will still excite and excite us, that there will be a repetition of that joyous community celebration, which we are so proud of, ’where everything is possible’: it will be the best viaticum to prepare us to celebrate next year’s special anniversary, that of the 30th edition.”
The president’s words sum up the philosophy that has animated the event since its inception: to promote knowledge of heritage as a common good, encouraging the direct participation of citizens, students and local associations. A commitment that in almost thirty years has involved more than four million visitors, sixty thousand volunteers and one hundred and sixty thousand students, protagonists of the narration of more than two thousand monuments in more than 170 Italian municipalities.
Born in 1997 in Sardinia, Monumenti Aperti has gradually expanded its boundaries, extending to regions such as Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, Puglia, Lombardy and Lazio. In 2018 it received in Berlin the prestigious Europa Nostra Award, the European Union’s prize for cultural heritage, while since 2008 it has been awarded the Medal of Representation of the President of the Republic.
The 2025 edition enjoys the patronage of the Senate of the Republic, the Chamber of Deputies, the Ministries of Culture and Tourism, the Region of Sardinia, ANCI Nazionale and, for the fourth consecutive year, the European Parliament. The initiative is supported by the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy and numerous public and private institutions, which recognize in the project a virtuous model of heritage education and civic cohesion.
The leitmotif of the XXIX edition, encapsulated in the motto “Where everything is possible,” sums up the spirit of a journey that combines memory, culture and beauty. Each monument becomes a testimony to a collective history, each visit a gesture of participation and care. The free opening of the sites, guaranteed for the duration of the event, represents an invitation to everyone, citizens and tourists alike, to rediscover Italy through its most hidden and authentic places.
The official website www.monumentiaperti.com and the dedicated app provide up-to-date information on local programs, possible reservations and schedule changes. The event is also present on the main social channels - Facebook (@monumentiaperti) and Instagram (@monumentiaperti) - where it will be possible to follow in real time the journey of Monumenti Aperti 2025 along the peninsula.
The new season, which will close in November, is not just a series of extraordinary openings, but a great community workshop, an opportunity to build through memory a shared future. A journey that unites people, places and stories and that, year after year, continues to prove that culture, when it is participated in, can really make everything possible.
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