At the beginning of the ‘90s the writer Stanislao Nievo decided to revive the places that had inspired great writers of the past, starting from the Castle of Colloredo, where his great-uncle Ippolito Nievo wrote Le confessioni di un italiano.

From first idea, the concept of literary parks was developed not as enclosed areas but rather as areas where safeguarding and protecting the original places and landscape.

It is a new way of doing culture, a culture available to all, outside of conventional standards, and thanks to this initiative it is possible to create original cultural itineraries aiming to the protection and the enhancement of the places celebrated in the works of the most important Italian writers, offering a unique experience to the visitors that find themselves “walking in the pages of a book”. Literary parks in Italy are managed by the Ippolito Nievo Foundation that, through the carrying out of hosting structures, information centres, guided tours, and cultural initiatives linked to the literary world, allows to begin some veritable “sentimental trips”.

“Nel nostro paese c’è solo l’imbarazzo della scelta, perché è tutto un parco letterario” (Nievo). (“In our Country there is an embarrassment of riches, since there is a literary park everywhere”)

Presently, in fact, the literary parks represent a rich setting for our cultural tourism. Some examples include the literary parks of ANTONIO FOGAZZARO, in Lombardy; EUGENIO MONTALE in Puglia; IPPOLITO NIEVO in Friuli; CESARE PAVESE in Piedmont; GIOSUÈ CARDUCCI, DANTE ALIGHIERI and CARLO CASSOLA in Tuscany; GIACOMO LEOPARDI in the Marches; GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO in Abruzzo; OMERO in Lazio; GIAMBATTISTA VICO in Campania; CARLO LEVI in Basilicata; TOMMASO CAMPANELLA in Calabria; GIOVANNI VERGA, LEONARDO SCIASCIA and SALVATORE QUASIMODO in Sicily, etc….

Umbria has one park.