On the last day of 2025 the Salotto Italia–Cina, an Italian cultural salon in Sanya, opens its premises in the Sanya HQ Port complex. These are the first 200 square metres of a larger physical space, and they mark the operational start of the project. After a year of work on its structure, the Salotto has a place where it can receive partners, companies and institutions.
The rooms are designed as a salon in the proper sense of the word: reception and meeting rooms, walls for works of art, a small library. The same spaces house the first rooms of the Leonardo da Vinci Museum Sanya, as they take shape. The museum is the Salotto's central cultural project, devoted to Leonardo's thought and method as a common language across different worlds and disciplines.
The order of steps was stated from the start: first the space, then the content, then the people and the institutions. The interior design is by ArchitectuRalconcepts. In 2026 the premises begin their work, from presenting the Salotto to Italian companies to taking part in Hainan's major trade fairs.
Before, in Sanya, May 2025: The Salotto Italia–Cina Is Born →
