Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 October the Autumn Days of the Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI) are back. The event was created with the aim of protecting and enhancing the Italian historical, artistic and landscape heritage and sees the participation of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).
In 250 Italian cities, 660 sites that are usually closed to the public will be open to the public, with 3.800 volunteers ready to accompany visitors through 150 thematic itineraries. Among the places involved in the initiative are palaces, churches, castles, archaeological areas, gardens, industrial architecture, craft shops, museums, lighthouses but also entire villages, districts, mills, dams, cisterns and aqueducts.
Theme of this year, the "places of water". In accordance with the #salvalacqua campaign () and with the contribution of INGV, DiSTeM-Department of Earth and Sea Science, STEBICEF-Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, Department of Hydraulic Engineering of the University of Palermo and Geode Association, involved in a series of initiatives aimed at increasing citizens' sensitivity and awareness of the value of this precious and not inexhaustible asset.
In Palermo, the INGV program includes a thematic itinerary dedicated to water and the geochemistry of water, essential for the monitoring and surveillance of active volcanic areas.
Included in the thematic itinerary "Water between history and science", there will be three educational-scientific laboratories organized by INGV in Palermo at the "Mare Memoria Viva" urban ecomuseum (via Messina Marine, 27) .
Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 October from 10.00 to 17.00, visitors will be able to participate in the laboratories run by INGV researchers from the Palermo section: From Geochemistry to Giochimica, small chemistry experiments for the little ones; Geochemistry of waters in active volcanic areas; Submarine Observatories, underwater sampling. The aim of the initiatives will be to explain to the public the research work of the Institute in active volcanic areas, the geochemistry of waters and how these can provide useful information on the monitoring and surveillance of active Italian volcanoes.
Also scheduled for both Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 October at 11.00 at the "Mare Memoria Viva" Ecomuseum is the seminar Discovering the Underwater World: the new generation of submarine observatories by INGV researchers.
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Link to the program
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