Entering a law firm and feeling as though you are in an art gallery: this is what happens at the offices of Luciano | Ballo & Partners in their Padua and Rovigo locations. Gianluca Ballo and Alessandro Luciano’s passion for collecting is evident - a love that began long ago and is so essential they literally want it before their eyes at all times. This passion has also driven them to provide professional legal assistance for the protection of artists.

There is a photograph - among those taken by Ernani Orcorte - in which one can glimpse, in a courtyard that has become a home for large sculptures, the tiny figure of a man walking: Nicola Loi. We are in Casalbeltrame, a small village between Novara and Vercelli, a land of rice paddies. Here, in 2006, Loi began to build his citadel of sculpture, alongside the 18th-century villa (intended as a gallery of plaster casts for 20th-century Italian sculpture) and the park previously owned by the Counts Bracorens Savoiroux.

Today, Friday, March 6, 2026, the Town Hall of Borgio Verezzi (SV) hosted the fourth edition of Premio Donna. This annual event, promoted by the Agorà Association with the patronage of the Municipality, is dedicated to celebrating local female excellence in the fields of culture, society, and art.

BY GABRIELE DALLE LUCHE, PAOLO GARFAGNINI