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Matera 2019. Atlante delle emozioni delle città: la Secretissima camera de lo core
Raccontare l'anima dei luoghi. C’è un luogo nascosto, tra i libri della biblioteca della città di Matera, dove ci si può perdere: è la “Secretissima camera de lo core”, una installazione multisensoriale site specific, dove le memorie degli abitanti prendono vita.
Atlante delle emozioni delle città è un progetto ideato e co-prodotto da Teatro dei Sassi e Fondazione Matera Basilicata 2019, sostenuto dalla BPER Banca.
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Pilgrims museum - Museo dell'Arciconfraternita dei Pellegrini
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It's not a typical museum. When you think to a museum, it's not unusual to think you'll see a boring place, where works are shown whithout a context or a story. Inside this museum you'll find works and their context, history and culture walking togate.
Pellegrini museum is a group of places (2 churches, an underground cemeter, many rooms) with original art works from XVII to XIX century. Actually it is the place where the founding institution (Pellegrini arci-brotherhood) lives and carries on its. native mission.
So it's not a 'dead' museum, but it's a 'living' museum.
Pellegrini Museum is in Naples, it's in the historical center, next to Piazza del Plebiscito.
Pellegrini Museum was realized from Pellegrini arci-brotherhood, founded in 1579 by six craftsmen. In XVI century the pilgrimage became a social question: pilgrims during their trips lasting months could become sick and they needed care. In XVI and XVII century the line between pilgrims and beggars was not well defined.
That's the reason why six craftsmen decided to realize a new brotherhood caring pilgrims going to or coming back home from Rome.
XVII century Pilgrims arci-brotherhood opened a convalescent home. In XIX and XX century it was mainly involved in improving a sanitary hospital, the same structure you can see today. The hospital today is property of local government because they took its possession in 1970.
You can reach Pellegrini Museum from Piazza Garibaldi station in 15 minutes. Take the metro and get off to Montesanto station. Exit from the Metro and walk along Via Olivella. From Piazza Montesanto, walk along Via Portamedina, until Pellegrini hospital. Go inside Pellegrini hospital and ask for Pellegrini museum.
To visit museum you have to pay 5€ entrance ticket, including guide inside the Museum. For less than 30 people entrance cost is 150 €. The Museum is opened from 9.30 am to 4 pm from Monday to Thursday. On Wednesday and Saturday museum is opened from 9.30 am to 1 pm. On Sunday it is closed.
During May and some period of the year you can visit museum for free.
To book your guide you can send an e-mail to affari.generali@arciconfraternitapellegrini.org.
Pilgrims brotherhood museum is composed of two churches, an holy land and some other rooms.
Your visit probably will start in Materdomini Church. Materdomini is the first church where pilgrims were welcomed. Materdomini was built from Fabrizio Pignatelli, a Neapolitan nobleman, wanting to help pilgrims. When he died, all his property passed to Pilgrims brotherhood, so started the history of this organization. In this church you will see two important statues: the Laurana Our Lady statue and the Fabrizio Pignatelli statue by Michelangelo Naccherino. Laurana statue is one of the most interesting monuments of the Italian Reinassance, while the Fabrizio Pignatelli one has the particularity to be a rare case of a kneeling statue.
Next to the church there's the historical archive, were are served a lot of interesting documents about the city of Naples and the brotherhood.
From the church of Materdomini you can arrive to the Holyland, were convalescent and sick people death were buried.
Here is possible to see one of the burials: a member of the brotherhood dressing the traditional red dress, standing in a niche from the XIX century.
The holyland was realized from a Neapolitan architect, member of the brotherhood, Giovanni Antonio Medrano. He is the same architect realized for example the historical theatre of San Carlo in the near Piazza Plebiscito.
From the holyland your visit will probably get to the second church, Trinity Church. This is a very beautiful church. Originally it was a little oratory (because the the main church of the brotherhood was Materdomini), but soon it became the most important church of the brotherhood, open to the public. In XIX century a lot of liturgies of reignant were celebrated in this church, because kings were part of the Pigrims brotherhood.
The churh is full of treasures: some important paintings from XVII century. You will see some important painting from Giacinto Diano, Andrea Vaccaro, Antonio Farelli), an important sculture of the holy Trinity beside the altar
Your visit will go on into other rooms, where the guide will show the traditional wearing of Pilgrims Brothers they still today dress every Sunday or the showcase were by XVIII century are written the names of brothers.
In the memorial tablet corridor you will see remembering benefactors of the brotherhood are remembered. Some of them are very important for the city of Naples. Michele Arditi, for example, was leader of the actual Archaeological museum. He improved it and made it became one of the most important all over the world in XIX century.
Limo tour to Alberobello
Tiber Limousine Service provides limo tours to Southern Italy starting from Rome and Naples.
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Alberobello is an incredible town in Puglia, worldwide known for its trulli. The history of Trulli lbegins with an edict of the King of Naples in the fifteenth century with a new tax on buildings. The Counts of Conversano, owners of the land on which today lies Alberobello, to avoid paying this tax, told their farmers to build their homes without using malta, just stones, so that they could be seen as precarious buildings and not subjec to the new tax.
Having to use only stones, the peasants invented the characteristic round shape with self-supporting roof, made of stone circles overlapped, the simplest configuration but also the most solid. The trulli's roofs where then decorated with pinnacles.
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Alto Vastese. Amore a prima visita. English
The south-eastern end of the mountainous Abruzzo region is one of the most hidden areas. From the southern part of Abruzzo and the southern Adriatic regions, the Frentani Mountains act as a natural doorway to the protected natural reserves of the Apennine region and the Great Natural Parks.
The Alto Vastese aera is a land of frontier and for this reason it holds an ancient heritage. Here the landscape, still hilly in many stretches of land, never becomes truly mountainous, but the tall wooden hills and the winding roads, lead higher and higher towards remote villages.
There are 8 municipal districts in the Alto Vastese region, stretching over the hills that face the Trigno River. In the past, the territory was literally studded with small villages and farmhouses that still prove, from an archaeological standpoint, the diffused presence of tiny rural settlements in the territory.
Every hill or mountain, however small, was occupied by an often dense network of sentry posts, watch towers, isolated towers, fortified farmhouses, all linked by a system of triangular networks that made the entire territory easy to change very quickly.
The open nature of the territory and the diffused structure of the settlements are at the base of the elevated trade economy with neighboring Molise, from which dynasties of crafters come from (stonemasons, organ-builders), all of whom gave a recognizable footprint to the territory's religious architecture.
The journey through the towns that make up the Alto Vastese area can begin from Torrebruna, considered the city of truffle where every year a festival is held that brings in tourisms from all over Italy. Honey, truffles, mushrooms, jams, excellent extra virgin olive oil, cheese, and of course cold meats: these are the products of excellence of this territory, worth a visit even just to enjoy its old-fashioned flavors as part of an oenograstronomic tour.
However, the Alto Vastese area offers also one of the most interesting emerging archaeological finds: in the neighborhoods of Schiavi di Abruzzo it is possible to find the Sacred Area of Italic Temples, which holds some of the best Samnite architectural finds.
Passing through Carunchio, classified as one of the Most beautiful villages of Italy, a little further down due south, about 2km from Fraine, an itinerary along the path of religious places cannot miss the Sanctuary of Mater Domini, immersed in the silence of an extraordinarily charming natural environment, and Bosco Vicenne, the green heart of the area, along with Abetina di Castiglione Messer Marino.
La Dimora Di Genna - Villa - Castellana Grotte - Puglia/Molise - Italy
On the south of Bari, in one of the most beautiful place between the Castellana Grotte's hills, a striking landscape with age-old olive trees where time seems to be stopped to allow you to enjoy the quiet and scents that this place offers to you; moreover we are close to the most beautiful sandy and pebbly beaches.
The Country house is composed by a trullo with lamia and alcove. Two double bed rooms plus a single bed (another one could be added), a bathroom with shower, kitchen with oven and refrigerator, parlour with fireplace, computer with internet connection, TV flat screen, stereo (with ipod connection) with sound spreading in the pool area, outdoors kitchen and shower. 500 square meters garden, ornamental plants, gazebo with dinner table and forms, gazebo with big divan and cushions for total relax, deckchairs, sunshade parasol. Small gazebo with dinner table close to the pool. Two mountain bikes for country rides.
Abetina di Castiglione Messer Marino
Pochi e localizzati sono ormai i boschi di abete bianco nell'Italia peninsulare. Uno dei nuclei più consistenti si trova proprio nel comune di Castiglione Messer Marino. L'Oasi naturale Abetina di Selva Grande è un'area naturale protetta istituita nel 1996 e gestita dal WWF dove foreste di abeti e di faggi, un tempo usati per la legna e per la produzione del carbone, rivestono rilievi e vallate incontaminate. L'Abetina di Selva Grande, che si estende per 800 ettari, è suddivisa in tre parti: il bosco di abete bianco, la faggeta e le aree pascolo. L'abete bianco si presenta da solo, oppure misto al faggio ed altre specie come aceri, tra cui il raro acero di Lobelius, il tasso, il tiglio, il frassino maggiore, l'olmo montano, il carpino bianco, il cerro, il nocciolo e il sorbo montano. Ricchissimo il sottobosco, con piante molto belle come il croco, la scilla, il sigillo di Salomone e l'aquilegia.
I mammiferi sono rappresentati dalle specie più nobili: lupo, gatto selvatico, martora e capriolo. Si possono osservare inoltre picchi, tra cui il raro picchio nero, e molti rapaci, come l'astore, lo sparviero, la poiana e, tra i notturni, l'allocco e il gufo. L'ombra dei rami e del fogliame è il regno dei piccoli uccelli come il fringuello, il ciuffolotto, il fiorrancino e varie cince.
Il periodo migliore per visitare l'oasi delle abetine è la tarda primavera, l'estate e l'autunno: d'inverno dominano la neve e il gelo.
The woods of European Silver Fir in the peninsular Italy are few and localized. One of the most consistent nucleus stands just in the Municipality of Castiglione Messer Marino. The Natural Oasis Abetina of Selva Grande is a natural protected area created in 1996 and managed by the WWF, where fir and beech woods, once used for firewood and coal, cover relieves and unpolluted valleys. The Abetina of Selva Grande, 800 hectares spread, is divided into three parts: the European Silver Fir wood, the beech wood and the pasture areas. The European Silver Fir stands alone, or mixed to the beech and other species, such as maples (the rare Lobel's Maple), taxus, tilia, common ash, wych elm, common hornbeam, Turkish oak, common hazel, common whitebeam. The understory is very rich, and shows very beautiful plants, such as the crocus, the squills, the polygonatum odoratum and the aquilegia.
Mammals are represented by the noblest species: the wolf, the wildcat, the marten, the roe deer. Moreover, we can see the woodpeckers, such as the rare black woodpecker, and a lot of birds of prey, such as the Northern Goshawk, the Eurasian Sparrowhawk, the Common Buzzard, and among the night birds, the Tawny Owl, and the Long -- Eared Owl.
The shadow of branches is the kingdom of little birds, such as the chaffinch, the bullfinch, the common firecrest, and several tits.
The best period to visit the oasis of Silver Fir woods is the late spring, the summer and the fall: snow and freeze dominate winter.