From Milan to Sybaris Italian jewelry
The Italian jewelry art and landscape are there, within reach, hidden only by the wall of distraction: a potential still largely under-utilized despite the crisis that calls for the revival of the economy. For this reason the Italian Environmental Fund has transformed the Day of Spring, with 700 treasures usually not open to open to the public on 23th and 24th of March, in an appeal to restart the country immediately, using the force of history and beauty.
It is a popular mobilization – 21,000 boys who are as guide, 7,000 volunteers, 600,000 visitors expected – running from a symbolic place: the archaeological park of Sybaris closed by the flood of January 18 and reopened for the occasion.
When I saw I had a stomach blockage: there was two feet of mud on the old walls, says the vice president of Ask Marco Magnifico. And I come to say that it was a natural disaster. The banks of the river Crati are no longer cared for since 1954.
The flood plain area, which should act as a shield to the full, is invaded by thick dense citrus. The € 4 million allocated for the recovery part is finished in the beautiful building that houses the Commissioner and in part have not been spent. So now we have to pay damages of 21 million.
Fortunately, despite everything, the cultural heritage of-Italy continues to resist and reveals new surprises.
Also in Calabria will visit two other jewels: the Castle of San Niceto, the Byzantine fortress of Reggio Strait suspended in a frame of brooms and an intangible asset: Frascineto, the country in which the community arbëreshë, came to the middle of the fifteenth century , maintains the language and traditions of Albanian origin.
In Naples, will visit the historical archives of the Banco di Napoli, the largest in the world: five centuries of history kept in two beautiful buildings.
Then, up the peninsula, passing by Osimo (Ancona) with the building of a student of Bellini Briganti Vanvitelli for the Bell Tower of the Abbey of Pomposa (Ferrara), which since 1063 stands on the plains drained, for the Palazzo Malaspina ( Ascoli Piceno), sixteenth-century noble residence, with its medieval tower severed, the fourteenth-century single-light windows and portals.
In Milan, the proposals are varied. They range from the debut of modern eco-friendly with yards of Porta Nuova, which will host the Unicredit Tower, the tallest building in Italy, until the Locomotive Depot in 1931: 15 hectares for the maintenance of the locomotives of history.
In Alexandria will open the Citadel, a diminutive that just fits the immensity of these 74 acres of eighteenth-century fort built by Vittorio Amedeo II was here that for the first time the flag was waved. A Stradella (Pavia), the city of the accordion, you can visit the historic Factory Mariano Dallapè, closed at the end of 2010.
On Lake Como come to Villa Serbelloni Sola Cabiati where the family stayed there for nine years as a tutor Giuseppe Parini: you can see the study where he wrote the poem The Day. “They are extraordinary places that testify to the vitality of our cultural heritage, it is questionable as long as we can survive without a change of course: the Ministry of Culture is to resurrect Lazarus,” concluded the archaeologist Andrea Carandini, newly appointed President of the FAI.
The Board of Governors is now probably out of the law: they are no longer paid trips to Rome of Presidents of the scientific committees and so the brain’s technical ministry is in fact paralyzed. To avoid a charge of 10 000 euro per year, you may lose a priceless treasure. A madness.
