Bell'Italia Special Award: Il Borgo di Padernello

Bell’Italia joins forces with the Fondazione Italia Patria della Bellezza and for the first year is awarding a special mention to a project among the participants in the call for participants. The project will be given visibility in the magazine and on the Instagram account bellitalia_magazine is the Borgo di Padernello.

In the Bassa Bresciana, an area with a deep agricultural vocation, La Fondazione il Castello di Padernello  led the recovery and restoration of the castle itself for 15 years. It promoted its use as a cultural system and territorial economy project. The Foundation then embarked on the recovery of the entire rural and artisan village, effectively expanding its scope and increasing the cultural and community value of the project, which it called “Generare Comunità”.

The objective is precisely to create a hub of services and build a Community of the Lower Lands by extending the Padernello model to the 7 neighbouring municipalities that will soon increase. The project stems from the need to transform the Padernello Castle and Village into a landmark that is an attraction of culture, the arts and history for the area, thus recovering the founding values on education to safeguard the cultural heritage that tightens the relationship between the history of the territory and its future.

The Padernello project is an adventure which helps us discover our identity, our traditions, but also a journey in search of our soul. The Padernello Castle Foundation wants to be a key player in a new and renewed relationship between human beings, history and nature.