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culture, heritage, slow luxury, museum, haute couture, art, architecture, rome Francesca Polizzi culture, heritage, slow luxury, museum, haute couture, art, architecture, rome Francesca Polizzi

One spring day with the FAI touring Villa Wolkonsky, the residence of the UK ambassador in Rome.

Villa Wolkonsky is one of the many secret oases dotting Rome; a precious, hidden, treasure chest, usually inaccessible and unknown, which I had the privilege of accessing thanks to the FAI (Italian Environment Fund) during the “FAI spring days”.

Villa Wolkonsky is not only a place of incredible historical and architectural value, with its enchanted park full of treasures; for somebody, it is home..

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A day in Rome with the FAI, living the dream of a farsighted Princess of our past.

Princess Blanceflor Boncompagni Ludovisi was one of the many female figures of the past who has enabled us today to add a piece to our cultural development as a society; it was she who donated her home to the State to be maintained and used 'exclusively for artistic and cultural purposes of public utility'.

Thanks to FAI (Italian Environment Fund), the doors of the Museum B. Ludovisi were opened for a “FAI Family Day”, where even young guests were introduced to this beautiful piece of their heritage, with an extra-ordinary twist on Italian haute-couture.

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