Every year, on the first weekend of spring, the map of Italy is dotted with hundreds of extraordinary openings. There are 780 accessible places for this edition, distributed in more than 400 cities: private houses, palaces, gardens, theaters, factories and infrastructures that become open to visitors for two days.

A widespread, often little-known heritage that for a weekend makes itself accessible and narrates, through architecture and landscapes, the stratified identity of territories. From large cities to smaller towns, the openings build a temporary geography made up of exceptions and possibilities.

Because the range of offerings is so wide, finding your way around is not easy. And while the focus is always on the same places, we have chosen five less obvious addresses, off the beaten track.

These are not necessarily the most iconic, nor the most photographed. They are modern buildings, public and private, often linked to specific local contexts, that tell a concrete modernity made up of adaptations, stratifications and everyday uses. Five episodes in which the project meets precise, sometimes unexpected stories.