.:. opportunities / the heritage autumn 

Giornate FAI d’Autunno
Saturday, October 11 and Sunday, October 12, 2025

The FAI (Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano) is a sort of National Trust of Italy, a private foundation allowing old mansions and buildings of historical importance – whose maintenance the owners can no longer afford – to be still open to the public.
.:. Every year since 1993, as a promotion for their activity, the FAI organizes the "Giornate FAI di Primavera" or FAI Spring Days, an open door weekend throughout Italy. Hundreds of fascinating places otherwise closed to the public, or usually difficult to enter, can be exceptionally visited. Similar Autumn Days have flanked the Spring ones for fourteen years now.
.:. In Milan, you can take the lift to the top of the Gioia 22 building this year, to see the city from above, and visit, among others, the Palazzo Cusani (its main ceiling pictured) in the Brera district, and the Fondazione Renzo Piano at the Politecnico university. Entrance to some of the buildings may be restricted to FAI members, but you can get your membership at the moment.
.:. The dedicated web pages provide a complete list of all open locations throughout Italy, though in Italian only.

 several locations
  

  mostly 10am-5pm
   entrance by donation, entrance free for FAI members
    [+39] 02 4676151