The proposal aims to investigate the dimension of the sacred in the area of the Rectorate Gardens of the University of Perugia: a special area both because it is located in the heart of the historical center of the Umbrian capital and because it is accessible not only to students but to the entire community. The topographical profile returns a system characterized by a steep slope, whose figurative identity value is strongly linked to the relationship between the architectural and vegetation components, so much so as to shape a veritable panoramic esplanade overlooking the northern Etruscan walls. In this sense, the context of the Gardens can be defined as belonging to the dimension of ‘between’: between mountain and valley, between nature and artifice, between academic life and city life. In 2022, by special decree, the ‘Regional Commission for the Cultural Heritage of Umbria’ declared the place of ‘Cultural Interest’. On the occasion of the preliminary restoration and redevelopment project dedicated to the Rectorate Gardens and promoted by the governance of the University, we question the understanding of this context as a possible space of the sacred, giving the area a collective dimension of communion and encounter. An interpretation also reaffirmed by the presence of the original settlement of the Olivetan order. From a methodological point of view, the contribution is planned in two main stages. A first phase of critical analysis dedicated to the context under study in terms of both natural and architectural heritage; a second phase of didactic-design experimentation that critically presents the results of the activity dedicated to the study of an interfaith sacred chapel. Within the recomposition project of the area, the Rectorate Gardens are thus interpreted as a place open to celebration, according to the multiple forms of rituality.