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| DARWIN 1809 - 2009 Rome, Milan, Bari |
| www.darwin2009.it |
Rome February - May, 2009
Milan June 4th - October 25th, 2009
Bari November 2009 - March 2010 |
Opening hours:
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| Exactly two hundred years after the birth of the great scientist and 150 years since
the publication of The Origin of the Species, the exhibition Darwin 1809-2009 will be inaugurated in Rome in the
newly restored Palazzo delle Esposizioni (February - May, 2009) and will then move on to Milan (June 4th - October
25th, 2009) and Bari (November 2009 - March 2010). Darwin, the spectacular international exhibition about the father
of the theory of evolution, is based on an exhibition organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New
York, in collaboration with Museum of Science, Boston, The Field Museum, Chicago, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto,
Natural History Museum, London. |
| MAO- Museum Of Oriental Art - Turin |
Palazzo Mazzonis
Via San Domenico 9-11 Torino
www.maotorino.it |
| Inaugurated December 2008 |
Opening hours:
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| This new exhibition space in Turin has been dedicated to Oriental art. It is held
in Palazzo Mazzonis in the heart of the "Roman city" that has been made available by the city council.
The MAO will contain a collection of 1500 works and will be a part of the Fondazione Torino Musei together with
the Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, the Museo d'Arte Antica and the Borgo Medievale. The new museum, which
cost over 13 million Euros to build, features reliefs from India; Khmer sculptures; Burmese and Thai works; items
from China's Han and Tang eras, with over 200 funerary objects, statuettes and Tibetan Buddhist pieces. |
| Palio of Ferrara |
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| The Palio of Ferrara is the most ancient one in the world and in addition to this
is peculiar for its kind of ride that is joyful and so different from other warlike palii where there are always
enemy that you have to fight with the lance. This is a very important moment for the city: all the "Contrade"
participate wearing dress of different colors to gain the “palio”, but also and over all, to make party and to
remember the Renaissance, a period in which Ferrara was really a capital. |
| Festival Verdi - Parma |
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| Around 10th October, the Maestro’s birthday, when the city and its surroundings steeped
in the autumnal colors and scents of the Verdi homeland deeply touch our collective imagination, this is the moment
when the Festival comes to life: the days vibrate with music, opera and listening guides comparing singers from
the present and the glorious past, conferences, readings from the masterpieces of literature which inspired the
opera libretti, exhibitions, shows, a range of productions for every level of musical expertise, theatre, dance
and avant-garde visual arts. The Festival is set in theatres, opera-houses and the most picturesque locations in
Parma and the land of Verdi. |
| Raffaello and Urbino |
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| The exhibit, that will be taking place the 4th of April to the 12th of July in the
Trono room and in the the apartment of the Dutchess of the Ducale Palace, office of the National Gallery of the
Marche, has the aim to bring to light the formation of Raffaello in the great expressive culture found in the Urbinese
court and above all the influence of his father in his education. There will be some of Raffaello’s greatest works
on display, 20 paintings and 19 original drawings. |
| Ravello Festival |
Ravello (Salerno)
Various Locations
www.ravellofestival.com |
| June 26th - September 27th 2009 |
Opening hours:
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| The aim of the Ravello Festival is to generate a special atmosphere which caresses
the spirit. The ingredients it can count on are the serene landscape on all sides, the balmy climate, the highly
evocative monuments and the courtesy. The Ravello Festival seeks to enable a style of life based on introspection,
creative idleness, ethics and aesthetics. The 2009 edition has a rich array of opportunities, and the thread that
links these opportunities together, showing them off but without any sense of constriction, is the topic of Courage,
this year’s Wagnerian Leitmotiv. |
| Puccini Opera Festival - Torre del Lago (Lucca) |
Puccini Opera Festival
Piazzale Belvedere - Torre del Lago Puccini (LU)
www.puccinifestival.it |
| June 15th / August 16th, 2009 |
Opening hours:
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| Torre del Lago, home of the Puccini Festival, lies between the Lake of Massaciuccoli
and the Tyrrhenian Sea, 11 miles from Lucca and Pisa. The Festival welcomes thousands spectators every year to
its open-air theatre, near the Villa Mausoleum where Giacomo Puccini lived and worked. Torre del Lago is a favourite
destination of opera lovers and tourists who wish to visit the places where the most beloved composer of the 20th
century lived. The Puccini Festival was born in 1930 following Puccini’s wishes. The author of La Bohème
and Madama Butterfly, expressed his wish to see his creatures come to life in the extraordinary natural stage offered
by the Massaciuccoli Lake. |
| The Artist Traveler. From Gauguin To Klee, From Matisse To Ontani - Ravenna |
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(Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna)
via di Roma, 13 - Ravenna
www.turismo.ravenna.it |
| Through June 21st, 2009 |
Opening hours:
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| The exhibition project organized by the City Art Museum of Ravenna is intended to
recall the artistic journeys of some of the most important painters that travelled and lived outside Europe, but
like other continents also (Asia, Africa, America and Oceania) they were experienced and represented by western
artists, from the orientalism of the eighteen hundreds of Alberto Pasini, to the avant-garde who reworked in new
stylistic terms these exotic ideas. |
| The "Della Robbia" - Arezzo |
Museo Statale d’Arte
Medievale e Moderna
via San Lorentino, 8 - Arezzo
www.mostradellarobbia.it |
| Through June 7th, 2009 |
Opening hours:
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| Arezzo plays host to an event in which its art is strongly connected to the territory.
I Della Robbia, with its glass coated terracotta, left its traces of its beauty in churches, in palaces and in
the architecture of Tuscan cities. The exhibition will display roughly 140 pieces of never before seen artwork
along with pieces of Luca Della Robbia’s Opera, considered an innovator of his time. |
| International Piano Festival Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Brescia and Bergamo |
Teatro Grande
Corso Zanardelli - Brescia
Teatro Donizetti
Piazza Cavour, 15 - Bergamo
www.festivalmichelangeli.it |
| April 26th - June 13th, 2009 |
Opening hours:
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| One of the most important festivals in the world that is dedicated to the piano, takes
place at the Teatro Grande in Brescia and the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo. Every year is met with a theme around
which the concerts rotate, thus making up a path which from time to time focuses on one author, one historical
period, or one cultural environment. The 46th Edition will investigate the musical areas suggested by the title
“Route to the Orient. From Bach to China”. |
| VENICE CONNECTED |
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From February 1st it will be much easier to book a holiday in Venice thanks to “Venice
Connected”, the new on-line reservation system set up by the City of Venice. Simply by going to www.veniceconnected.it
it will be possible to book and buy on-line all public tourist services in town and save money at the same time.
In order to buy reduced tickets, on-line bookings will be have to be made 15 days in advance. This means that from
February 16th the new “Venice Connected” pricing system will be in use. Prices will vary according to low, middle
and high season, which will be marked respectively in green, blue and red days on the “Venice Connected” on-line
calendar. |
| Canova. The Classical Ideal In Sculpture And Painting - Forli |
Musei San Domenico
Piazza Guido da Montefeltro - Forli
www.mostracanova.eu |
| January 25th – 21st June 2009 |
Opening hours:
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| With over 160 masterpieces of Canova, the exhibition, which is the second most challenging
and comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work after the one held in Venice in 1992, aims at tracing the career
of the outstanding sculptor through a series of exemplary masterpieces. The exhibition focuses for the first time
on the relationship between sculpture and painting. |
| Egypt Sunken Treasures - Turin |
Venaria Reale
Piazza della Repubblica, Venaria Reale (TO)
www.egitto-tesori-sommersi.it |
| February 7th - May 31st, 2009 |
Opening hours:
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| The Egypt. Sunken treasures exhibition will open in Juvarra’s Scuderie at Venaria
Reale from February 7 to May 31, 2009: it is the only Italian appointment for the international exhibition of over
500 archaeological artifacts from Alexandria, Heracleion and Canopus, ancient towns in the Nile Delta which sank
six meters under the level of the Mediterranean in the first centuries of the Christian era. |
| Festival of the Two Worlds - Spoleto |
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| In 1958 the Italian-born American composer and librettist Giancarlo Menotti, twice
winner of the Pulitzer award, realized the dream of his life: the festival of the two worlds. The name came from
the creator’s intention to gather the European and American scenes. The city chosen to host the event was Spoleto,
located in the region of Umbria, for its beauty, its richness of suggestive theatrical venues and its closeness
to Rome. The unique atmosphere of free expression of aesthetical, ideological, religious and political tendencies,
together with the natural and architectural beauty of Spoleto, attracted throughout the years the biggest names
of the entertainment and the jet-set: Visconti, De Filippo, Valli, Russell, Zeffirelli, Rossellini, Williams, Rota,
Polansky, Scorzese, Pound, Gassman, Pavarotti, Domingo, Garcia and many others. |
| Marca Storica: A new itinerary in the province of Treviso |
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| A new eco-museal itinerary is available for all who yearn to visit the territory of
the province of Treviso. Marca Storica is a passage that aims to rediscover any traces of prehistoric life, traveling
the ancient Roman roads, admiring the castles, towers, and fortifications of the medieval period. The ancient ruins
and the superbly restored noble residences tell the history of this territory that today, presents itself to the
visitor like a widespread, spacious museum. |
| Pinocchio Park |
Parco di Pinocchio
3, Via San Gennaro - Collodi
www.pinocchio.it |
Info
Phone:
+39 0572 429 642
+39 0572 429 613 |
| All year round |
Opening hours:
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| The Collodi Park is entirely dedicated to the little wooden puppet who so wished to
be a little boy and all the wonderful characters of Collodi s classic fairy tale. The town of Collodi in Tuscany
is the birthplace of Carlo Collodi, the literary creator of the world s favorite wooden puppet. Born Lorenzetti,
the writer paid tribute to its hometown by adopting Collodi as his last name. The park includes a workshop where
one can follow the creation of a puppet from beginning to end, as well as shows, exhibits and entertainment. Picnic
areas are available throughout the park as well as the Osteria al Gambero Rosso. The park which centers around
the Italian Pinocchio imagery and not the Disneyesque version of the character is a fun activity for fans of the
puppet, big and small alike and a pleasant way to spend a few hours wondering in the peaceful Tuscan countryside. |
| "Roma-Pass" also valid for the sea |
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| Everything is in track for the summer season. The Roma Pass was launched by the Municipal
Authorities of Rome and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, in conjunction with ATAC, and this new plan expects
to make it possible to use the Roma-Pass card for means of transportation that lead from the Capital to the Sea
and supplementary services at seaside establishments. It has everything, with one coupon valid for 3 days that
also includes the possibility to rent bikes at no charge, given that you reserve them in advance. |
| Arte Sella Exhibition Centre - Borgo Valsugana (Trento) |
Arte Sella Exhibition Centre c/o Malga Costa
Val di Sella - Borgo Valsugana (Trento)
www.artesella.it |
Info
Phone: +39 0461/751251 |
Opening hours:
- June, July, August, September: every day.
- October: weekends only. |
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| Arte Sella is an international biennial exhibition of contemporary art which began
life in 1986. It takes places in the open, in the fields and woods of the Val di Sella valley (near Borgo Valsugana
in the Province of Trento). Since 1996 the Arte Sella project has been laid out along a path in the woods on the
southern slope of the Armentera mountain. The route, named ARTENATURA ( Art in Nature ) is designed to enable visitors
to view the artworks and at the same time enjoy the natural site itself (with its different types of woods, rocks
and trees &) In the last few years Arte Sella has expanded to include the nearby rustic Malga Costa. This unusual
but attractive building has served as the backdrop for various exhibitions and events which have attracted considerable
interest. In 2001 near the Malga Costa the artist Giuliano Mauri built the massive Tree Cathedral artwork for Arte
Sella. |
| Parco Sculture del Chianti - Pievasciata (Siena) |
Parco Sculture del Chianti
La Fornace - S.P. 9, 53010 Pievasciata (Siena)
www.chiantisculpturepark.it |
Info
Phone: +39.0577.357151 |
All Year Round
From November to March by appointment |
Opening hours:
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| Parco Sculture del Chianti at Pievasciata (Siena) in the heart of Chianti is the first
Italian park situated in a natural wood totally devoted to international contemporary sculpture. From April to
October always open from 10 a.m. to sunset except Monday. |
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