This news has been spread widely throughout Italy, by local and national media (see here for example). We too would like to publicize it in order to inform our members and friends abroad.

This is a dream come true for many of us. The island has reopened as of today and you can visit it until 8th October, by booking on the Bisentina website.

From the date of its purchase in 2017, the Rovati family began a careful restoration of the historic architectural structures and the recovery and care of the island’s unique landscape and environmental heritage. The island is also of great botanical and zoological interest, being a biodiversity “hotspot” protected by the European Natura 2000 network (see here for a detailed naturalistic description). It is a stroke of luck that it has found a new owner aware of its importance under its various aspects, and above all as an ancient sacred centre influential on the entire area.

The Rovati’s program for the island is to “Cultivate Art”. That is, in some ways to continue taking up the ideas of Prince Giovanni del Drago carried out over a few years, between 1991 and 1995 (see here for the history of the island). For the opening, the public is invited to follow a path that allows them to visit three of the seven chapels, exhibiting installations of contemporary art, in addition to getting in contact with the island’s unique landscape. As Franco Battiato said during his seminar on the island, “the ideal condition of the human being is being immersed in art and nature”.