Grow culture, awareness and experience of the landscape, promote awareness of places and widespread territorial quality. These are the objectives with which the first event totally dedicated to the landscape was born in Monza. Is called Monza Landscape Week and it will be held from 27 to 31 May in Royal Villa, with a preview of events in the area starting from Sunday 26th.
In Monza an event entirely dedicated to the landscape
Monza Landscape Week 2024 offers five days of meetings in the Hall of Honor of the Villa Reale. The official inauguration will take place Monday 27 May with institutional greetings from the Mayor, Paolo Pilottoand of the Territorial Government Councillor, Marco Lamperti. The guiding theme of the day will be the heritage widespread in the city of Monza and beyond, with interventions by personalities from the academic world and institutions to observe the landscape in its facets – from its protection to governance models – and analyze its historical characteristics geographical areas with particular focus, in the afternoon, on the twentieth-century landscape heritage, of which Monza itself is extremely rich.
“The landscape – observes the Councilor for Territorial Government – is part of our life experience every day. With the contribution of numerous institutional and non-institutional partners, the festival will become an opportunity for in-depth and multi-faceted reflections on the environment, architecture and urban planning of Monza and beyond, offering an important opportunity for in-depth study both for citizens and for experts and workers involved in jobs”.
In the following days the emphasis will instead be placed on management of regional parks; on greenery and urban regeneration; on biodiversity and landscape transformations in the last centuries of history to arrive at the last day with insights into the effects of the landscape on individual health and well-being and on the values of urban greenery in the challenge of sustainability.
At 5.00 pm on May 31st the final moment of synthesis and formulation of the perspectives that will project the public and speakers towards the 2025 edition.
There is also an “Outside Festival”
From 26 to 31 May, in parallel with the conference days in Villa Reale, they will be held 20 widespread events: meetings and appointments in various places in the city: guided tours, bicycle excursions, theatrical performances, concerts, photographic exhibitions to explore and discover the landscape of the city, yesterday and today.
The Festival program is completed by a booklet of seven cultural and in-depth events, including the exhibition of nineteenth-century Lombardy at the Orangery of the Villa Reale and at the Civic Museums until 28 July, and seminars promoted by the College of Surveyors, the Order of Architects and the Order of Engineers Monza and Brianza.
All initiatives require reservations. For meetings in Villa Reale, parking with entrance at Porta Monza is available to the public.
