Legambiente is the most widespread environmental organization in Italy, with 20 Regional branches, more than 1,500 local groups in the whole country and more than 115,000 members. It is acknowledged as “association of environmental interest” by the Ministry of the Environment; it represents the UNEP National Committee for Italy, it is one of the leading member of EEB (“European Environmental Bureau”) the Federation of European environmental organization, and of IUCN - the World Conservation Union. The headquarter is in Rome, with a staff made up of fifty professionals and experts on different fields of activity.

Among the most important activities of Legambiente are the awareness and monitoring national campaigns, which put together the scientific analysis of environmental quality with the public awareness and mobilization to protect the environment, as Festambiente, the national festival of Legambiente.

Festambiente (International Festival of Ecology and Solidarity)

The international Festambiente is an ecological kermesse with three open-air big organic restaurants (with typical Italian and Mediterranean dishes), two BIO-Bar with organic produces, a Bio-Pizzeria using organic ingredients. Then the ecological city is composed by various areas (“different quarters and squares”…) where you can find cinema (environmental art movies), theatre, workshops, institutional and commercial stands, an Ekomarket with organic and natural products, a new age area (with yoga, rebirthing, shiatsu), ateliers for kids, kids’ garden with recycled plastic furniture, excursions in the nature (canoeing, natural park of Maremma, beaches, woods, rivers…), ateliers for adults (handcraft, Mediterranean herbs, natural soaps, natural liqueurs).
Every night big political events which foresee the participation of Italian Ministers (Environment, Justice, Social Affairs, etc.), politicians,  international contributions in the environmental field, NGOs, show men and women, and the most important media (Rai, Mediaset, Ansa…). After the political debate over an environmental theme the great music concert which attracts numberless young people and also families.