On the occasion of the National Tree Day (November 21), a mulberry tree was planted on the agricultural estate of the “A. Cecchi” High School at Villa Caprile, marking an important gesture of historical and environmental recovery for the city.
The initiative is part of the Aracne Project and the “Pesaro Silk Routes/2: The Mulberry Trees” project promoted by the State Archive of Pesaro Urbino. The goal is twofold: to honour the Day and, above all, to bring attention back to a crucial, yet nearly forgotten, plant in the region.
The mulberry tree, a gift from the Laboratory of sericulture of Padua (CREA-Research Agriculture Environment), which also distributed other plants to several schools in the Veneto region, holds deep symbolic value for Villa Caprile. In the past, the area was rich in mulberry trees, which were essential for Pesaro’s sericulture vocation. The planting aims to symbolically protect and re-evaluate the tree within the current agricultural landscape.
The ceremony, which also included a conference in the main hall with speeches from the councilor for the environment, the school principal, and the project’s scientific curators, was attended in particular by the fifth-year classes of the “Environmental and Territory Management” course of the “A. Cecchi” High School. The event, open to the public, represents a bridge between historical agricultural tradition and educates new generations on environmental protection.
