The Gaia revolution: a new view of the Milky Way traced by its star clusters

The census of stellar structures and star clusters in the Milky Way has been vastly improved in the recent years, largely owing to the Gaia mission. On a large scale, our ability to estimate more reliable ages and distances to clusters allows us to refine our understanding of the structure of our Galaxy and the mechanisms that drive its evolution. The study of young aggregates in the Solar neighbourhood and their internal kinematics has given us important insight on the conditions of star formation. In this talk I will review important results obtained from Gaia DR2, EDR3, and DR3 data. Despite its paradigm-changing impact, Gaia leaves us with many open questions which can only be tackled in combination with observations from other instruments, in particular ground-based spectroscopic surveys