Aula del Simonino

The Sala del Simonino, until now known as Cappella del Simonino, located inside Palazzo Bortolazzi Larcher Fogazzaro, in Via del Simonino, in the historic centre of Trento, was donated to FAI by Marina Larcher Fogazzaro in 2018, to be restored and enhanced.

After the first restoration works, first on the façade of the Palace - which highlighted the fifteenth-century windows, restoring colour and legibility to the figures and inscriptions painted in the eighteenth century - the Foundation rearranged the interior space to create an unprecedented and original cultural enhancement project, which consists of a "sound story" dedicated to the story of little Simone from Trento. The audience, sitting on wooden benches like those of a choir, will listen in wireless headphones, designed to offer high quality audio, a narrative of about 20 minutes, informative, educational, but also of great suggestion and with a particular immersive effect, conceived and curated by FAI, entrusted to the voice of the actress Daria Deflorian from Trentino and produced by Chora Media.

FAI has decided to reopen this place with a new function: to educate the citizens of today and especially of tomorrow, that is, the young people of the schools, to which it is primarily destined. That is why it is called "Aula" del Simonino: because it wants to be like a school classroom, but outside the school.