Following the well-established tradition promoted by FAI, during this weekend which inaugurates the spring season all over Italy more than 700 private and usually not visitable places have been opened to the public in order to present unexpected and surprising cultural, landscape and entrepreneurial realities.

Fantini was selected by FAI and included in the circuit “The west coast of Lake Orta: a story around water”, a theme that is very dear to the company, which has always had a special relationship with the territory and the water of the lake.

The circuit planned by FAI touched on emblematic places along the West Coast, with a route by car, boat from Pella to Ronco, a walk along the lake shore and guided visits by young FAI volunteers to the Tap Museum in San Maurizio d’Opaglio, the San Filiberto monumental complex and the village of Ronco.

In the Tap Museum, the exhibition “Man and water” illustrated on large panels the relationship between man and water from ancient times to the birth of the modern water culture, which has increasingly become a fundamental and priority resource to which millions of people still do not have easy access.

In Pella, 300 guests visited Fantini’s headquarters on the lake, welcomed by Daniela Fantini, company staff, FAI volunteers and Cosetta Dal Cin, an expert guide of Orta Lake.

Designed by architect Piero Lissoni, the company’s headquarters is recognised internationally as a virtuous example of the harmonious integration of industrial architecture into the natural landscape. 

The visit to the showroom of the company, well-known for its identity and uniqueness as an emblematic factory of Italian Design, was a sort of ‘full immersion’ in the history of design and its multiple expressions, seen through the evolution of a product for everyday use – the tap – which keeps reproducing the small miracle of bringing water into our homes.