The appointment with the fifth edition of Do Marathon is set for Sunday 16 October. The autumn day of Fondo Ambiente Italiano will touch 600 special and little-known places in Italy, collected in 150 thematic itineraries in the major Italian cities.
The itineraries, this is the novelty, were chosen by the young people of Fai, the national groups of volunteers of the association between 18 and 35 years old, the true protagonists of the autumn event of the Fund, created in support of the fundraising campaign "Let's remember to save Italy”, active until 31 October.
Guiding the choices of the young volunteers, who come from all regions of Italy and gather around the 280 FAI activation points present in the area, is "the concept of recovery" as explained by Veronica Pennini from Naples, one of the volunteers Make sure he participated in the organization.
Central is “the desire to focus attention on unknown places or places normally closed to the public or, as in the case of Health district in Naples, from the desire to highlight the best aspects of a neighborhood” that enjoys an unedifying reputation.
Another innovative aspect is the format of the event, which more than a marathon is, according to the FAImarathon project manager Elisabetta Pasqualetto, "an invitation to take a walk along these itineraries, which count on a long series of special openings" .
A Roma the itinerary takes place between the Ostiense and Testaccio districts and where, beyond the Museo della Centrale Montemartini, it will be possible to visit sites open exceptionally for the event, such as the Gasometer, one of the largest industrial archeology sites in Europe, or unknown places such as the Emporium Porto Fluviale or the archaeological area of the Nuovo Mercato Testaccio.
The itinerary Milanese, however, concerns one of the districts that has undergone the most transformations, the former Fiera Campionaria, once Piazza d'Armi and today a district that looks to the future, with the three skyscrapers: the Isozaki Tower, the only one currently completed, the Hadid Tower and the Libeskind Tower.
Sunday you can visit the Three Towers Square and you can visit other normally closed places, such as the pavilion three of the former fair, from the liberty era, and the Vigorelli velodrome, which had to be dismantled and today, instead, reopens to cyclists, thanks also to the intervention of Fai, which launched an appeal for its protection in 2014.
The creation of an itinerary that is not only touristic, but also narrative, able to deeply tell a place, finds its realization in Napoli, where the young Fai volunteers have chosen to show the historical artistic treasures hidden in the Rione Sanità, which will be animated by readings of passages by Totò and from the distribution of “snowflakes” from the Poppella pastry shop.
Among the sites that can be visited the artistic workshop of Michele Iodice, located among ancient quarries, the church of Santa Maria della Sanità with the San Gaudioso catacombs and Spanish Palace, built in 1738 and accessible only to members of the Fondo Ambiente Italiano.
