Past editions

Almost 1.000.000 referrals during the 5 editions of the census “Places I Love”: an extraordinary number of subscriptions, an effective mobilization that has involved citizens from every region in Italy, also triggering the creation of spontaneous associations.

The great number of subscriptions to the census is a testimony to the citizens’ deep and lively interest, to which FAI gives a larger voice so that it can be heard not only by the media, but also by the Institutions. Indeed, by transmitting the list of all the referred locations on their territory – regardless of the number of votes they received – to Mayors, Superintendents and Presidents of the Regions. FAI urges them to protect these places.

This action has often meant the establishment of virtuous mechanisms by which several collaborations with territorial agencies for the recovery of the referred locations: this is the case of the Acqua Acetosa Fountain in Rome, the Romanic Bridge of Clavi, near Imperia, the Niguarda Hospital in Milan, St. Paul’s Chapel in Galatina (LE), St. Michael’s Church in Calvisano (BS), and Baia dei Turchi Beach in Otranto (LE).

Within every census, FAI and Intesa Sanpaolo select some of the most referred places – according to how necessary the intervention is, its positive impact on the community, but also to the participation of citizens and local institutions – so to act concretely through proper recovery interventions.