Cleaning and improvement works at the Via Pascoli parking area, with a focus on maintenance and the graffiti removal.
Week of Guardianship
Perugia, 15 - 21 September 2025
A week devoted to small yet meaningful acts of care and love for the city of Perugia
The "Week of Guardianship" is an initiative designed to inspire every citizen to become a guardian of their city through simple, tangible gestures of care and love for the places that daily host the life of the community.
Its inspiration is drawn from the words of the Sienese Constitution of 1309, the ancient statute that urged citizens to "hold dear above all the beauty of the city, for the delight and joy of strangers, and for the honour, prosperity, and growth of the city and its people"...
This initiative is the result of a collaboration between the Brunello and Federica Cucinelli Foundation, the Municipality of Perugia, the Region of Umbria, the University of Perugia, the University for Foreigners of Perugia, the Pietro Vannucci Academy of Fine Arts, alongside associations, schools, and businesses across the region.
Every place is a shared gift to be cared for
Throughout the "Week of Guardianship", citizens, associations, schools, and businesses are invited to join in the initiatives of care and upkeep identified throughout the city of Perugia.
Through the spontaneous involvement of the community, we shall protect and preserve the places that welcome our daily lives. With care and with love, we want to restore beauty, dignity, and harmony to every corner of the city.
These may be small gestures, yet they are deeply meaningful—caring for streets, squares, parks, buildings, gardens, and other places that safeguard the memory and identity of Perugia and its urban fabric.
Shared gestures, collective memory
From the smallest act to the grandest gesture, from the individual to the community, from action to spirit—it takes very little to allow beauty, care, and guardianship to blossom. The front door of our home, the street where we live, the square that welcomes us, the garden where nature offers respite... all these are threads in a shared memory, an invisible web binding together the city's identity.
Together—children and adults, students and workers, associations and enterprises—we may offer a gesture of love to Perugia.
The places of Guardianship
Discover the list of sites involved in the initiative, share them with friends and family, register, and join us!
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Maintenance of public green spaces and refurbishment of internal pathways to make the park accessible for social and recreational activities.
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Cleaning and tidying of the outdoor areas of the monumental San Francesco al Prato complex, one of the city's most iconic landmarks.
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Restoration offlower boxes, refurbishment of paving and urban furniture within the park,thorough cleaning including removal of waste and abandoned materials, aimed at enhancingpublic areas used by families, children, and the community.
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Renovation of green spaces, focusing in particular on the park's fountain and paving, along with general cleaning and waste removal, aimed at restoring the usability of public spaces, and creating a more welcoming environment for residents and visitors.
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Works to restore drainage pits, replace stormwater grates, and reposition wooden benches to enhance the park's green spaces.
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Repaving and restoration of concrete curbs along walkways. Installation of a new basketball hoop, painting of iron benches, graffiti removal from playground equipment, and general park cleaning to improve accessibility for citizens.
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Maintenance of green spaces, cleaning of road surfaces and sidewalks, and refurbishment of urban furniture to better highlight the identity of the area.
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Improvement of the area through the removal of curbs, replacement of benches, bollards, and perimeter fencing, and securing of public lighting, along with thorough general cleaning of green spaces and removal of waste.
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Specialized painting work to remove graffiti from the wall.
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Restoration of area usability through replacement of missing thresholds and iron covers, thorough cleaning of paving, painting of side walls and railings, and maintenance of green spaces and hedges.
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Restoration of steps and railings, refurbishment of the stage and wooden benches, painting of the iron table, and general cleaning and waste removal to restore the usability of public spaces, thereby creating a more welcoming environment for residents and visitors.
BE PART OF IT!
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Below is the press release distributed to regional and national media outlets during the press conference held in Milan on 12 June 2025:
Perugia, Week of Guardianship
A beautiful city is also a well-cared-for city
The Municipality of Perugia leads the project, conceived by Brunello Cucinelli
Milan, 12 June 2025 - This morning, at Casa Cucinelli in Milan, a press conference was held in the presence of journalists and friends to unveil an important initiative entitled the “Week of Guardianship”.
Conceived by Brunello Cucinelli, the project has been warmly embraced by the Municipality of Perugia, which acts as the main organiser of the initiative. The endeavour also involves the Umbrian region, the University of Perugia, the University for Foreigners of Perugia and the Academy of Fine Arts of Perugia.
Dedicated to the architectural and natural wonders of the entire municipal territory of the Umbrian capital, the initiative aims to raise public awareness around fostering a civic culture of preservation, guardianship, and beautification. The full scope of the project -which will take place in the week of 15-21 September 2025 - was outlined during the event.
The initiative was presented by Brunello Cucinelli, President of the eponymous fashion house based in Solomeo, alongside the Mayor of Perugia, Vittoria Ferdinandi, in the presence of the President of the Umbria Region, Stefania Proietti; the Rector of the University of Perugia, Maurizio Oliviero; the Rector of the University for Foreigners of Perugia, Valerio De Cesaris; and the Director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Perugia, Tiziana D'Acchille.
The objective is to instil a collective sense of responsibility for the care of the common good and Beauty itself, by identifying and enhancing specific areas within both the urban and peripheral parts of the Umbrian capital. This endeavour also seeks to safeguard the city's authentic memory and identity. The noble aim of the initiative is that every citizen feels engaged in this communal labour of beautification —beginning with tending to the facade of one's home, nurturing the plants in one's garden, and maintaining the cleanliness of one's gate.
All of this is undertaken in the spirit of civic commitment and collective generosity, in constant collaboration with schools, families, neighbourhood associations, businesses, and merchants, so that each individual may select one or more days during the Week of Guardianship to perform their personal act of care towards Perugia.
Brunello Cucinelli commented: «I like to think that this Week of Guardianship will find joyful participation from all Perugians and beyond, urging them to recognise the importance of each person caring for a small part of our splendid city of Perugia, a heritage of humanity. We are all temporary guardians of Beauty, and that represented by Perugia's monumental stones, parks, gardens, and orchards awaits daily, gracious, and gentle acts of care from all —whether residents or students, or those visitors who come to experience it as tourists. The ancient Athenians taught us: 'If the doorway to your home is clean, the whole city is clean,' 'It is our duty to leave the city more beautiful than we inherited it.'I believe that everything can begin with caring for one's own doorway. A cleaned and polished door will be more beautiful; a well-tended garden will be more beautiful; and soon after, a pavement, a bench, a wall, a plaque, a flowerpot, a path, a fountain, a small park, a public square —all will regain their shine. Thus a virtuous circle will be sparked whereby all will feel responsible for the city's beauty and respectful of its territory. You will see, I am certain, that when we restore dignity to certain corners of the city, our very souls will benefit and feel lighter. In Siena, in the town hall, the fresco 'The Allegory of Good Government,' masterfully painted by Benozzo Gozzoli for our instruction and pleasure, depicts the Sienese Constitution of 1309, the supreme expression of the norms regulating civic, political, and judicial life, where it is written: 'Those who govern must hold the beauty of the city foremost in their hearts for the delight and joy of visitors, for the honour, prosperity, and growth of the city and its citizens'».
The Mayor of Perugia, Vittoria Ferdinandi, remarked:
«The Week of Guardianship is far more than a project; it is a collective act of love towards our city. It is the recognition that beauty is not merely an aesthetic matter but an ethical value, a way of living and coexisting. Beauty is shared responsibility—it is caring for one another and the places we inhabit. It is the ability to look beyond ourselves to build a more united and just community.Through this initiative, we give voice and space to an idea of active and tangible participation, involving every citizen, associations, enterprises, and institutions. To guard the city means to keep it alive, to restore its dignity, and to bring light to those places which, though seemingly marginal, form part of our collective identity. It is a daily, simple gesture, yet profoundly revolutionary.We will work together to restore value to our common goods, strengthen the bond between people and urban spaces, and cultivate a deep civic spirit that translates into concrete actions of care and renewal. For every cleaned bench, every reflowered flowerbed, every wall restored to its original beauty, is a step towards a city that is more welcoming, inclusive, and humane.
The beauty of Perugia is its soul, and it is the duty of us all to safeguard and nurture it, today andfor those who will come after us».