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PROJECT
2025

ANDARE PER GIARDINI Andare per Giardini is a project aimed at fostering an understanding of environmental and landscape heritage, enabling us to interpret the historical and cultural signs it embodies. Andare per Giardini is a documentation, enhancement, and promotion initiative focused on historic and contemporary gardens and their landscapes. It already features numerous profiles of estates and gardens that are extensively documented, open, and continuously updated, along with a rich section of itineraries of historical, botanical, and naturalistic significance.

We aim to provide a new opportunity to virtually explore gardens through images and videos, immersing ourselves in places of extraordinary beauty to grasp their history, harmony, and contemporary signs of landscape evolution. We recognize that true understanding comes from visiting these places, experiencing their atmosphere, scents, colors, contrasts, and light, and above all, respecting and preserving them.

Concept and Coordination:
Alessio Guarino, Masatoshi Horii, Yuriya Matsumoto.

The initiative is supported by the Municipality of Florence and Fiesole, the AIAPP Toscana, the Tuscany Historic Houses Association, the European Garden Heritage Network, and the San Rossore Park Authority of the Tuscany Region.

In collaboration with:
Historic Gardens Group at the University of Padua, Giovanni Michelucci Foundation, Primo Conti Foundation, Villa Reale di Marlia, and Villa Oliva Buonvisi.

DOCUMENTATION 2025
Dear Friends and Supporters,
We are delighted to announce that the Andare per Giardini project is advancing with a new informational documentation effort that will broaden our geographical horizons, including other Italian gardens beyond those currently featured. These gardens, rich in historical, artistic, botanical, and naturalistic testimonies, deserve to be discovered and appreciated.

Our Objective
This documentation project captures the richness and diversity of Italian gardens—historic and contemporary, iconic and hidden, urban and rural—within the constant interplay of landscape and societal transformations.
We aim to create an ever-expanding collection of images, stories, and information to be shared with everyone through this portal!
By doing so, we hope to offer knowledge and alternative travel suggestions now and in the future, contributing to firmly rooting “gardens” and “landscapes” as a part of the cultural heritage of Italian civilization.

Why Support Us
We preserve history and culture by highlighting the testimonies found in gardens. We promote widespread and more sustainable tourism practices.
We encourage travelers, both virtual and real, to deepen their ecological awareness, showcasing gardens as biodiversity reserves within urban and rural contexts.

How to Support Us
We are seeking generous supporters who share our cultural mission and are willing to partially cover the costs of this new initiative, including travel expenses for site inspections, material purchases, portal management, and the creation of educational materials without advertising.
Professional photographers, experts in landscape architecture, art history, and botany involved in the project will contribute voluntarily to this shared mission by providing photographs and texts for the Andare per Giardini portal.

How to Contribute
Every contribution, big or small, makes a difference. You can donate via our IBAN, PayPal, or contact us directly for further information.

Join Us
Since 2021, we have documented over 400 unique locations deeply connected to the landscape. These include historic and contemporary gardens, architecture, and art intricately linked to the environment. Our photographic and video documentation is accessible on our portal.
By leveraging new technologies, we can create increasingly faithful and immersive images, such as aerial views that capture the breathtaking interplay of shapes, colors, and geometries, as well as the wonderful relationship between gardens, landscapes, and time.
We aspire for the Andare per Giardini project to become a reference platform for studying, researching, and promoting gardens, the environment, and the landscape.

Services
Join the Andare per Giardini network—a collection of over 400 garden profiles (both historic and contemporary), continuously growing and categorized by geographical area, history, and type. These are integrated into emotional itineraries of historical, artistic, and naturalistic significance.

We also offer on-demand services for cataloging, classification, creating QGIS maps, precision aerial photogrammetry, and promotional photographic and video documentation.

Contact Us
For event submissions, information, and inquiries, please write to us at:
info@andarepergiardini.com

With Contributions From:
Ines Romitti, Silvia Travaglini, Paola Maresca, Donata Mazzini, Vincenzo Maria Mattanò, Simone Martini, Barbara Bertoli, Marilù Cantarelli, Fulvia Grandizio, Alessandro Rocca, Giovanni Gianfrate, Rocco Gangemi, Elisabetta Colombo, Laura Bianchi, Paolo Belardi, Virginio Briatore, Sarah Baxter, Femke Bijlsma, Laura Corti, Jennifer Greenlivess, Ariane Dröscher.

EDITORIAL STAFF
info@andarepergiardini.com

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