Pro Patrimonio Foundation

Pro Patrimonio Foundation, founded in 2000 is an international non-profit non-governmental organisation with branches in Romania (Bucharest), Great Britain and France. The foundation has a series of on-going projects whose main mission is the conservation, rescue and reactivation of cultural heritage, especially in architecture. The actions focus on palpable projects meant to protect and rehabilitate heritage and on involving and raising awareness in communities regarding their own identity, memory and inherited cultural values.

Pro Patrimonio Foundation supports the idea that each citizen is responsible for heritage and that the latter represents an element that shapes social identity. In the view of the Foundation, tradition is not a set of inflexible values, it teaches us to learn about the identity and culture that has shaped us, still models us today and encourages critical thinking adapted in a balanced and practical way to contemporary life.

The Foundation has several programmes of national and international importance. With the help of more than 100 volunteers, especially young people, Pro Patrimonio runs a series of projects around several historic architectural monuments designed to save heritage, educate and raise awareness among citizens with respect to the importance of cultural heritage.