In a two-day meeting, scheduled for September 20 and 21, photographers, landscapers, architects, urban planners, garden designers and botanists from all over the world will discuss how landscape design can address crises and promote social and urban regeneration.

More specifically, they will discuss how to create resilient ecosystems to address today's environmental, social and economic issues. Looking, of course, to the future. Many names of speakers, including Catherine Mosbach, Tony Spencer, Margherita Brianza, Arthur Adeya.

At the Teatro Sociale in Bergamo Alta, from 9:00

In addition to the international conference, however, the city is celebrating and offers many opportunities to think about the greenery and the environment that surrounds us, including projects, guided tours and events.

Here's what not to miss at the Landscape Festival 2024.

Palazzo Moroni is a place to discover in the heart of the Upper Town. Closed for a long time, the palace was recently restored and opened to the public thanks to the FAI, which reopened the palace with its nineteenth-century frescoes, but above all it broadened the horizon of the city.

Because after passing the Cortile di Nettuno, you discover various gardens in succession, from a small example of an Italian garden to a more imaginative and elaborate greenery on terraces, you then reach the vegetable garden, a remnant of the countryside that also includes high meadows, the spontaneous area for the recovery of biodiversity in an urban environment, and the ancient roccolo, near which a colony of badgers is protected. Guided tours by FAI until September 22 with reservation here.

The Antico lavatoio di via Lupo, in Bergamo Alta, has inspired an interesting project, entitled Choose your future: Green or dry. The timeline of human history is symbolized by a river and by retracing it you discover how much its course is influenced by every decision taken, that is being taken or that will be taken.

Two scenarios are compared, a negative one, with nature overwhelmed by human action, and a positive one, with a balance between man and nature. Their realization, however, depends only on us. This is how we reason about environmental crises and the possible choices to make to reverse the trend.

The Green Square 2024 was designed by Catherine Mosbach, a French landscape designer, with an installation entitled Fro Unity to Number, Leeds take root. We are in Piazza Vecchia and its stone pavement has inspired a comparison between the mineral and vegetal worlds, almost as if to mirror the relationship between the human and natural worlds. And not only that.

The diagonal lines that cross the pavement of the square symbolize a land parched by drought, but also a hope: the seeds of a new life, that of pioneer vegetation, are grafted into the furrows and cracks. Then the 52 trees and over 3 thousand herbaceous plants of the installation, which emerge from those cracks, transform the square into an ideal garden, encouraging people to fight to overcome the global, climate and social crisis for collective well-being.

The trees tell the story of our country. And those stories were collected by Annalisa Metta, Daniele Zovi and Guido Scarabottolo, a landscape artist, a popularizer and an illustrator, authors of a book entitled Alberi - 30 fragments of Italian history (Marsilio) and the exhibition of the same name, they tell stories of stories and stories of trees, landscapes and memories. To discover that trees are our biographers, certainly the archivists of the territory and an example for their regenerative capacity.

On September 19th at 7:30 pm in the Sala dei Giuristi at the Palazzo del Podestà, Piazza Vecchia in Bergamo Alta.