There province of Cuneo contains a complex and very rich heritage of cultural assets: churches, chapels, fortifications, castles, historic buildings and archaeological sites in which the roots and traditions of the territory are rooted. Since 2016, the CRC Foundation has traced a path to preserve this heritage through support for restoration and conservation interventions and, in parallel, valorization, with the dual objective of safeguarding the beauty of the places and giving new life to the spaces through the involvement of the communities, the diffusion of knowledge and tourism promotion, with growing attention to physical, cognitive and sensorial accessibility.
Manifest Beauty is the title chosen for the weekend that the CRC Foundation dedicates, from Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 June, to cultural heritage: to delve deeper into the interventions carried out in recent years on cultural heritage, launch the new edition of the Cultural Heritage Notice and offer an opportunity to discovery open to all.
On Thursday 27 June, at 5pm at the Rondò dei Talenti in Cuneo, the volume Manifesta Bellezza will be publicly presented, created by the CRC Foundation with the scientific collaboration of the Polytechnic of Turin, Inter-University Department of Territorial Sciences, Projects and Policies: the publication returns a prospective rereading of 47 virtuous interventions supported in recent years as part of the Cultural Heritage Call, to which are added 5 strategic interventions supported as part of the Faro Interventions (Liber in Mondovì and Langa del Sole in Diano d’Alba) and the in favor of the Dioceses, supported in 2022 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the Foundation (Cathedral of Santa Maria del Bosco in Cuneo, Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Alba and Palazzo del Vescovado in Mondovì).
On the same occasion, the new edition of the Cultural Heritage Call will be launched, an initiative which from 2016 to 2022 supported 312 projects for over 7.5 million euros in total contributions: the 2024 call will be published next week on the website www.fondazionecrc.it and will close at the end of September.
To complete the offer, a two-day open house was organized in 36 properties selected in the volume, scattered throughout the province of Cuneo: on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th June it will be possible to visit them, according to the methods and times indicated on the web page https ://fondazionecrc.it/manifesta-bellezza/.
“The Manifesta Bellezza volume was born from the desire to take stock of the policies in the cultural and territorial fields supported so far by the CRC Foundation: not only to look at what has already been done, but above all to grasp useful elements to better plan future initiatives” comment Mauro Golapresident of the CRC Foundation. “From the analysis of the interventions surveyed, thanks to the precious collaboration of the Polytechnic of Turin, the social impact of these projects and their value for the reference communities emerges. For this reason, the Foundation has decided to combine the presentation of the publication with an open weekend during which everyone will be able to discover and get to know many of these assets up close, some of which are not always open to the public”.
