THE GREEN OF THE EMPIRE AND THE KINGDOM

The initiative celebrates the 25th anniversary of the European Landscape Convention and the 220th anniversary of the Royal Park of Monza. It is dedicated to the theme of landscape and gardens in Europe and Italy and analyzes the territorial and cultural transformations linked to policies that used landscape as an instrument of modernization and representation of power. 
Through public parks and gardens, monumental green spaces and botanical gardens, a new vision of landscape as a meeting point between science, art and politics emerges.

PROGRAMME
First session
Chair Ornella Selvafolta
10.00 - Eleonora Berti, European Federation of Napoleonic Cities
European Landscape Convention and Cultural Routes: botany and gardens through Destination Napoleon
10.20 - Mariachiara Pozzana, ICOMOS Italy, AIAPP, Florence Greenway
A model for the development of topographical regional itineraries: the example of Tuscany
11.00 - coffee break
11.30 - Alberta Campitelli, former Superintendent of the Municipality of Rome, Alessandro Cremona, Superintendent of the Municipality of Rome
Interventions in the urban space of Napoleonic Rome.
11.50- Antonella Testa, Brera Botanical Garden Museum and Herbarium Functional Center
Functions, Collections and Science in Botanical Gardens
 12.30 - Light lunch

Second session
Chair Eleonora Berti
14.30 - Alessia Alberti, Maria Angela Previtera, 800 Lombard Network
The Gardens of the 800 Network, between landscape, botany and memory.
14.50 -  Ornella Selvafolta, formerly Politecnico di Milano
Lake gardens: the example of Villa Melzi in Bellagio
15.10 - Carlo Catacchio, Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio della Lombardia - Milan
Monza-Mondo: scenes, views, journeys within the Villa Reale Park.
15.30 - Marina Rosa, Centro documentazione Residenze Reali lombarde
From the "anti-nature par excellence" to its imitation. Continuities and changes in the Gardens of the Villa Reale of Monza between 1787 and 1807

The conference is promoted by the Centro documentazione Residenze Reali lombarde in collaboration with the Federazione Europea delle città napoleoniche and with the contribution of Ministero per i Beni Culturali and the Comune di Monza.

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