Twenty Years of Sojo Park: When Art and Nature Meet
On September 20, 2025, the twentieth anniversary of Sojo Park – Art and Nature, inaugurated on June 18, 2005, in Covolo di Lusiana Conco, was celebrated. Twenty years that have transformed a picturesque area of ​​the Altopiano dei Sette Comuni into an open-air laboratory, where art, history, and landscape interact in a rare and precious balance.
The idea, conceived in the early 2000s by architect Diego Morlin, sought to combine environmental enhancement and artistic research, offering a visitor experience capable of uniting wonder, knowledge, and well-being. Sojo has thus become not just a sculpture park, but a place where people can experience an authentic encounter with nature and art: strolling along the paths, discovering traces of history, and encountering contemporary works that emerge from the woods like unexpected apparitions.
The Covolo area, with its thousand-year-old church, meadows, terraces, abandoned quarries, and remnants of the Great War, was already a fascinating place in itself. The project successfully restored this heritage and intertwined it with over eighty works by Italian and international artists, crafted in bronze, iron, wood, and stone, installed along paths that blend seamlessly with nature. For visitors, the journey becomes a sort of treasure hunt: a sculpture emerging from the branches, an engraving on the rock, a work that captures the light and blends with the landscape.
The Sojo Park is not just an open-air museum, but a sensory and spiritual experience. Filippo Bordignon beautifully described this in his book "Something in the Woods," presented on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary: ​​the journey becomes an initiatory journey, capable of revealing something invisible, something that only slowness and listening can uncover. Here, nature and art are not opposed, but rather merge in a dimension that invites reflection, silence, and wonder.
Over the past twenty years, the Sojo has welcomed thousands of visitors, school groups, artists, scholars, and tourists from around the world. It has become a hub for those seeking a different kind of tourism, far from the mass tourism circuit, and has fostered renewed attention to the landscape, encouraging interventions for its care, restoration, and protection.

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