As part of the celebrations for the 825th anniversary of the Cathedral’s dedication, the Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia Monsignor Renato Boccardo with the Scientific Committee composed of Professors Massimiliano Bassetti, Maria Teresa Gigliozzi, Enrico Menestò, Emore Paoli, Serena Romano, Giovanna Sapori, and Bruno Toscano, conceived and promoted the exhibition Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication, produced by Opera Laboratori with a catalogue by Sillabe. The main theme of the exhibition, scheduled from 2 April to 16 July 2023, is the grandiose renovation of the early medieval Cathedral carried out between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, an undertaking that reflects an important phase in the religious and cultural history of the city of Spoleto and its vast diocese.

Title: Spoleto sacra 1200. Nell’825° anniversario della dedicazione della Cattedrale (Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication)
Venue: Spoleto, Museo Diocesano
Period: April 2 – July 16, 2023
Opening times: every day10.00-13.30, 14.30-18.00
Catalogue: published by Sillabe, Livorno
Information: Tel. 0577 286300
Mail: duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
Web: www.duomospoleto.it

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As part of the celebrations for the 825th anniversary of the Cathedral’s dedication, the Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia Monsignor Renato Boccardo with the Scientific Committee composed of Professors Massimiliano Bassetti, Maria Teresa Gigliozzi, Enrico Menestò, Emore Paoli, Serena Romano, Giovanna Sapori, and Bruno Toscano, conceived and promoted the exhibition Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication, produced by Opera Laboratori with a catalogue by Sillabe. The main theme of the exhibition, scheduled from 2 April to 16 July 2023, is the grandiose renovation of the early medieval Cathedral carried out between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, an undertaking that reflects an important phase in the religious and cultural history of the city of Spoleto and its vast diocese.

Title: Spoleto sacra 1200. Nell’825° anniversario della dedicazione della Cattedrale (Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication)
Venue: Spoleto, Museo Diocesano
Period: April 2 – July 16, 2023
Opening times: every day10.00-13.30, 14.30-18.00
Catalogue: published by Sillabe, Livorno
Information: Tel. 0577 286300
Mail: duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
Web: www.duomospoleto.it

Opening on Saturday April 1 at 11:30 | Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto

MICHAEL VENEZIA | Compilations
curated by Davide Silvioli

NANCY GENN | Beyond the Grid – Oltre la griglia
curated by Francesca Valente

April 1 – May 31, 2023

Michael Venezia is one of the longest active painters who took his first steps in the American Minimalist movement, alongside artists such as Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Robert Ryman and Donald Judd, his companions in life and work in New York since the 1960s.

Palazzo Collicola is preparing to host an important anthological exhibition of the Californian artist Nancy Genn, confirming the international dimension of the city of Spoleto, which has been the venue of the Festival dei Due Mondi for over 65 years. Nancy Genn will present a selection of works that embrace and summarise an artistic itinerary spanning more than half a century.

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Thrills and adrenaline characterize the Corsa dei Vaporetti (“Steam Coach Race”), one of the craziest and most original events in Umbria. An event with a strong competitive and goliardic spirit that boasts more than sixty years of history and animates the charming streets of Spoleto’s old town for three days in June.

Vaporetti are small vehicles with metal wheels. The name derives from the steam coach, the ‘vaporiera’, which from 1902 to 1909 provided scheduled service, the first in Italy, on the Spoleto-Norcia route.

The crew of the vaporetto consists of two people: the pusher, who, running at breakneck speed, is in charge of pushing and braking, and the driver, who is in charge of staying on course along the serpentine road winding downhill from the historic center to Garibaldi Square.

2023 PROGRAMME

Thursday, June 1 at 9 pm – Piazza Duomo
Presentation of crews and misses – Handing over race numbers

Friday, June 16 and Saturday 17 – along the old town streets
Race practice sessions

Sunday, June 18 – along the old town streets
57th Vaporetti Race

Saturday, June 24
Final dinner with awards ceremony and election of Miss Vaporetto 2023

Organisation: Associazione Corsa dei Vaporetti di Spoleto ASD.
Official website: www.vaporettispoleto.it

Three months of events for a total of 56 activities from Sunday 19 March to Wednesday 21 June 2023. This, in short, is the programme of Accade in primavera a Spoleto, the spring events programme organised by the Municipality of Spoleto in collaboration with local associations and institutions, dedicated to music, theatre, readings, art, initiatives for children and families and sport.

Among the events is Spoleto sul Palco, the first edition of the review that will be held at the Caio Melisso Theatre – Spazio Carla Fendi where four amateur companies from Spoleto will perform. With brilliant comedies and prose shows, both in Italian and in dialect, they will bear witness to the tradition of Spoleto in the context of the month dedicated to memory and city identity.

Once again this year there will be a study week organised by the CISAM Foundation, now in its LXX edition, which from 13 to 19 April will propose meetings on Time in the Early Middle Ages.

From 2 to 6 May, the International Dance Competition will be held at the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti. The IDC is the only Italian competition recognised at an international level and included in the International Federation of Ballet Competitions’ list of the most prestigious competitions.

Also returning is the Vaporetti Race, in its 57th edition, which will be run from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 June.

Spoleto in Fiore (Spoleto in Bloom),the market dedicated to flowers and gardening will colour Corso Mazzini, Piazza Pianciani and Piazza Fontana from 19 to 21 May.

On 31 March, Merenda nell’oliveta (A snack in the olive grove) is scheduled, an initiative organised by the member cities of the Association Città dell’Olio (Oil Cities). A day in the open air immersed in the olive-growing landscape, rediscovering the value of conviviality and being together while discovering evocative and lesser-known places. Participants will be involved in various activities such as educational workshops, tasting courses, storytelling with experts (olive growers, millers, agronomists, historians), poetry readings on the theme of oil, dance performances and plays.

There will also be numerous events for children, young people and families such as Spoleto in Gioco (21 May), an entire day dedicated to playful workshop activities for children and young people in Piazza Garibaldi, Corso Garibaldi, Cantiere Oberdan, Villa Redenta Park, Piazzetta dell’Erba and the San Nicolò Monumental Complex.

The opening of Palazzo Collicola exhibitions is scheduled on Saturday 1 April at 11.30 am. Protagonists will be Michael Venezia with Compilations, curated by Davide Silvioli and Nancy Genn with Beyond the Grid, curated by Francesca Valente. The exhibitions will be open until 31 May 2023.

Download the full calendar of spring events

Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.

In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.

Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.

Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.

Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.

The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.

This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.

The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.

Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.

Dacia Maraini photographer

A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.

Serafino Amato

Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281

As part of the celebrations for the 825th anniversary of the Cathedral’s dedication, the Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia Monsignor Renato Boccardo with the Scientific Committee composed of Professors Massimiliano Bassetti, Maria Teresa Gigliozzi, Enrico Menestò, Emore Paoli, Serena Romano, Giovanna Sapori, and Bruno Toscano, conceived and promoted the exhibition Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication, produced by Opera Laboratori with a catalogue by Sillabe. The main theme of the exhibition, scheduled from 2 April to 16 July 2023, is the grandiose renovation of the early medieval Cathedral carried out between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, an undertaking that reflects an important phase in the religious and cultural history of the city of Spoleto and its vast diocese.

Title: Spoleto sacra 1200. Nell’825° anniversario della dedicazione della Cattedrale (Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication)
Venue: Spoleto, Museo Diocesano
Period: April 2 – July 16, 2023
Opening times: every day10.00-13.30, 14.30-18.00
Catalogue: published by Sillabe, Livorno
Information: Tel. 0577 286300
Mail: duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
Web: www.duomospoleto.it

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Three months of events for a total of 56 activities from Sunday 19 March to Wednesday 21 June 2023. This, in short, is the programme of Accade in primavera a Spoleto, the spring events programme organised by the Municipality of Spoleto in collaboration with local associations and institutions, dedicated to music, theatre, readings, art, initiatives for children and families and sport.

Among the events is Spoleto sul Palco, the first edition of the review that will be held at the Caio Melisso Theatre – Spazio Carla Fendi where four amateur companies from Spoleto will perform. With brilliant comedies and prose shows, both in Italian and in dialect, they will bear witness to the tradition of Spoleto in the context of the month dedicated to memory and city identity.

Once again this year there will be a study week organised by the CISAM Foundation, now in its LXX edition, which from 13 to 19 April will propose meetings on Time in the Early Middle Ages.

From 2 to 6 May, the International Dance Competition will be held at the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti. The IDC is the only Italian competition recognised at an international level and included in the International Federation of Ballet Competitions’ list of the most prestigious competitions.

Also returning is the Vaporetti Race, in its 57th edition, which will be run from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 June.

Spoleto in Fiore (Spoleto in Bloom),the market dedicated to flowers and gardening will colour Corso Mazzini, Piazza Pianciani and Piazza Fontana from 19 to 21 May.

On 31 March, Merenda nell’oliveta (A snack in the olive grove) is scheduled, an initiative organised by the member cities of the Association Città dell’Olio (Oil Cities). A day in the open air immersed in the olive-growing landscape, rediscovering the value of conviviality and being together while discovering evocative and lesser-known places. Participants will be involved in various activities such as educational workshops, tasting courses, storytelling with experts (olive growers, millers, agronomists, historians), poetry readings on the theme of oil, dance performances and plays.

There will also be numerous events for children, young people and families such as Spoleto in Gioco (21 May), an entire day dedicated to playful workshop activities for children and young people in Piazza Garibaldi, Corso Garibaldi, Cantiere Oberdan, Villa Redenta Park, Piazzetta dell’Erba and the San Nicolò Monumental Complex.

The opening of Palazzo Collicola exhibitions is scheduled on Saturday 1 April at 11.30 am. Protagonists will be Michael Venezia with Compilations, curated by Davide Silvioli and Nancy Genn with Beyond the Grid, curated by Francesca Valente. The exhibitions will be open until 31 May 2023.

Download the full calendar of spring events

Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.

In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.

Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.

Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.

Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.

The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.

This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.

The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.

Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.

Dacia Maraini photographer

A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.

Serafino Amato

Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281

The month of June opens with two special days dedicated to Spoleto’s Rocca Albornoz.

On Friday 2 and Sunday 4 it will be possible to visit the 14th-century fortress free of charge.
On this occasion, Sistema Museo offers a series of guided tours aimed at enhancing the monument and the art collections housed in it.

Friday 2 June, at 11.30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Storia di una rocca del ‘300 (History of a 14th-century fortress), a guided tour to learn about the original appearance of the fortress.

On Sunday 4 June, at 11:00 a.m. on the occasion of the event Appointment in the Garden, there will be a guided tour entitled Gardens at the Paintbrush, an in-depth look at the frescoes and paintings preserved inside the Rocca that reproduce plant species.

Participation fees:
Full price € 5.00
Reduced € 4.00 for Spoleto Card holders and 7 to 17 year olds
Free admission up to 6 years of age

Free admission on the 2nd June holiday and on the first Sunday of the month “Sunday at the Museum”.

The guided tour requires MANDATORY BOOKING while places last.
The appointment is at the Rocca Albornoz ticket office.

Information and reservations:
MUSEUM SYSTEM
0743.224952
museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it

As part of the celebrations for the 825th anniversary of the Cathedral’s dedication, the Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia Monsignor Renato Boccardo with the Scientific Committee composed of Professors Massimiliano Bassetti, Maria Teresa Gigliozzi, Enrico Menestò, Emore Paoli, Serena Romano, Giovanna Sapori, and Bruno Toscano, conceived and promoted the exhibition Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication, produced by Opera Laboratori with a catalogue by Sillabe. The main theme of the exhibition, scheduled from 2 April to 16 July 2023, is the grandiose renovation of the early medieval Cathedral carried out between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, an undertaking that reflects an important phase in the religious and cultural history of the city of Spoleto and its vast diocese.

Title: Spoleto sacra 1200. Nell’825° anniversario della dedicazione della Cattedrale (Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication)
Venue: Spoleto, Museo Diocesano
Period: April 2 – July 16, 2023
Opening times: every day10.00-13.30, 14.30-18.00
Catalogue: published by Sillabe, Livorno
Information: Tel. 0577 286300
Mail: duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
Web: www.duomospoleto.it

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Piazza Bovio
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Three months of events for a total of 56 activities from Sunday 19 March to Wednesday 21 June 2023. This, in short, is the programme of Accade in primavera a Spoleto, the spring events programme organised by the Municipality of Spoleto in collaboration with local associations and institutions, dedicated to music, theatre, readings, art, initiatives for children and families and sport.

Among the events is Spoleto sul Palco, the first edition of the review that will be held at the Caio Melisso Theatre – Spazio Carla Fendi where four amateur companies from Spoleto will perform. With brilliant comedies and prose shows, both in Italian and in dialect, they will bear witness to the tradition of Spoleto in the context of the month dedicated to memory and city identity.

Once again this year there will be a study week organised by the CISAM Foundation, now in its LXX edition, which from 13 to 19 April will propose meetings on Time in the Early Middle Ages.

From 2 to 6 May, the International Dance Competition will be held at the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti. The IDC is the only Italian competition recognised at an international level and included in the International Federation of Ballet Competitions’ list of the most prestigious competitions.

Also returning is the Vaporetti Race, in its 57th edition, which will be run from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 June.

Spoleto in Fiore (Spoleto in Bloom),the market dedicated to flowers and gardening will colour Corso Mazzini, Piazza Pianciani and Piazza Fontana from 19 to 21 May.

On 31 March, Merenda nell’oliveta (A snack in the olive grove) is scheduled, an initiative organised by the member cities of the Association Città dell’Olio (Oil Cities). A day in the open air immersed in the olive-growing landscape, rediscovering the value of conviviality and being together while discovering evocative and lesser-known places. Participants will be involved in various activities such as educational workshops, tasting courses, storytelling with experts (olive growers, millers, agronomists, historians), poetry readings on the theme of oil, dance performances and plays.

There will also be numerous events for children, young people and families such as Spoleto in Gioco (21 May), an entire day dedicated to playful workshop activities for children and young people in Piazza Garibaldi, Corso Garibaldi, Cantiere Oberdan, Villa Redenta Park, Piazzetta dell’Erba and the San Nicolò Monumental Complex.

The opening of Palazzo Collicola exhibitions is scheduled on Saturday 1 April at 11.30 am. Protagonists will be Michael Venezia with Compilations, curated by Davide Silvioli and Nancy Genn with Beyond the Grid, curated by Francesca Valente. The exhibitions will be open until 31 May 2023.

Download the full calendar of spring events

CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
A casket of ancient paintings | Saturday at 11 am

ROCCA ALBORNOZ – NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE DUCHY OF SPOLETO
The Rocca: a fortress, a prison, a symbol | Saturday and Sunday at 12 pm

TEMPLE ON THE CLITUNNO
A monument of ancient charm
Saturday 3 and 10 June at 7 pm
Sunday 17 and 24 June at 6 pm

ROMAN HOUSE
A dream domus | Sunday at 3 pm

PALAZZO COLLICOLA
A noble walk | Saturday at 5 pm

Participation fees
Full € 5.00 | Reduced € 4.00 for Spoleto Card holders and from 7 to 17 years | Free up to 6 years |
Upon purchase of the Spoleto Card or the museum entrance ticket.

RESERVATION RECOMMENDED

Visits can be booked on www.spoletowelcome.it

Information and reservations:
SISTEMA MUSEO
0743.224952 | museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it
0743.46434 | spoleto@sistemamuseo.it

SPOLETO TOURIST OFFICE | +39 0743.218620

Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.

In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.

Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.

Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.

Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.

The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.

This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.

The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.

Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.

Dacia Maraini photographer

A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.

Serafino Amato

Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281

As part of the celebrations for the 825th anniversary of the Cathedral’s dedication, the Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia Monsignor Renato Boccardo with the Scientific Committee composed of Professors Massimiliano Bassetti, Maria Teresa Gigliozzi, Enrico Menestò, Emore Paoli, Serena Romano, Giovanna Sapori, and Bruno Toscano, conceived and promoted the exhibition Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication, produced by Opera Laboratori with a catalogue by Sillabe. The main theme of the exhibition, scheduled from 2 April to 16 July 2023, is the grandiose renovation of the early medieval Cathedral carried out between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, an undertaking that reflects an important phase in the religious and cultural history of the city of Spoleto and its vast diocese.

Title: Spoleto sacra 1200. Nell’825° anniversario della dedicazione della Cattedrale (Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication)
Venue: Spoleto, Museo Diocesano
Period: April 2 – July 16, 2023
Opening times: every day10.00-13.30, 14.30-18.00
Catalogue: published by Sillabe, Livorno
Information: Tel. 0577 286300
Mail: duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
Web: www.duomospoleto.it

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Piazza Bovio
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Ph. 0743 522620

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Vicolo San Filippo 16
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Three months of events for a total of 56 activities from Sunday 19 March to Wednesday 21 June 2023. This, in short, is the programme of Accade in primavera a Spoleto, the spring events programme organised by the Municipality of Spoleto in collaboration with local associations and institutions, dedicated to music, theatre, readings, art, initiatives for children and families and sport.

Among the events is Spoleto sul Palco, the first edition of the review that will be held at the Caio Melisso Theatre – Spazio Carla Fendi where four amateur companies from Spoleto will perform. With brilliant comedies and prose shows, both in Italian and in dialect, they will bear witness to the tradition of Spoleto in the context of the month dedicated to memory and city identity.

Once again this year there will be a study week organised by the CISAM Foundation, now in its LXX edition, which from 13 to 19 April will propose meetings on Time in the Early Middle Ages.

From 2 to 6 May, the International Dance Competition will be held at the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti. The IDC is the only Italian competition recognised at an international level and included in the International Federation of Ballet Competitions’ list of the most prestigious competitions.

Also returning is the Vaporetti Race, in its 57th edition, which will be run from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 June.

Spoleto in Fiore (Spoleto in Bloom),the market dedicated to flowers and gardening will colour Corso Mazzini, Piazza Pianciani and Piazza Fontana from 19 to 21 May.

On 31 March, Merenda nell’oliveta (A snack in the olive grove) is scheduled, an initiative organised by the member cities of the Association Città dell’Olio (Oil Cities). A day in the open air immersed in the olive-growing landscape, rediscovering the value of conviviality and being together while discovering evocative and lesser-known places. Participants will be involved in various activities such as educational workshops, tasting courses, storytelling with experts (olive growers, millers, agronomists, historians), poetry readings on the theme of oil, dance performances and plays.

There will also be numerous events for children, young people and families such as Spoleto in Gioco (21 May), an entire day dedicated to playful workshop activities for children and young people in Piazza Garibaldi, Corso Garibaldi, Cantiere Oberdan, Villa Redenta Park, Piazzetta dell’Erba and the San Nicolò Monumental Complex.

The opening of Palazzo Collicola exhibitions is scheduled on Saturday 1 April at 11.30 am. Protagonists will be Michael Venezia with Compilations, curated by Davide Silvioli and Nancy Genn with Beyond the Grid, curated by Francesca Valente. The exhibitions will be open until 31 May 2023.

Download the full calendar of spring events

CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
A casket of ancient paintings | Saturday at 11 am

ROCCA ALBORNOZ – NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE DUCHY OF SPOLETO
The Rocca: a fortress, a prison, a symbol | Saturday and Sunday at 12 pm

TEMPLE ON THE CLITUNNO
A monument of ancient charm
Saturday 3 and 10 June at 7 pm
Sunday 17 and 24 June at 6 pm

ROMAN HOUSE
A dream domus | Sunday at 3 pm

PALAZZO COLLICOLA
A noble walk | Saturday at 5 pm

Participation fees
Full € 5.00 | Reduced € 4.00 for Spoleto Card holders and from 7 to 17 years | Free up to 6 years |
Upon purchase of the Spoleto Card or the museum entrance ticket.

RESERVATION RECOMMENDED

Visits can be booked on www.spoletowelcome.it

Information and reservations:
SISTEMA MUSEO
0743.224952 | museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it
0743.46434 | spoleto@sistemamuseo.it

SPOLETO TOURIST OFFICE | +39 0743.218620

Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.

In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.

Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.

Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.

Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.

The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.

This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.

The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.

Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.

Dacia Maraini photographer

A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.

Serafino Amato

Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281

The month of June opens with two special days dedicated to Spoleto’s Rocca Albornoz.

On Friday 2 and Sunday 4 it will be possible to visit the 14th-century fortress free of charge.
On this occasion, Sistema Museo offers a series of guided tours aimed at enhancing the monument and the art collections housed in it.

Friday 2 June, at 11.30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Storia di una rocca del ‘300 (History of a 14th-century fortress), a guided tour to learn about the original appearance of the fortress.

On Sunday 4 June, at 11:00 a.m. on the occasion of the event Appointment in the Garden, there will be a guided tour entitled Gardens at the Paintbrush, an in-depth look at the frescoes and paintings preserved inside the Rocca that reproduce plant species.

Participation fees:
Full price € 5.00
Reduced € 4.00 for Spoleto Card holders and 7 to 17 year olds
Free admission up to 6 years of age

Free admission on the 2nd June holiday and on the first Sunday of the month “Sunday at the Museum”.

The guided tour requires MANDATORY BOOKING while places last.
The appointment is at the Rocca Albornoz ticket office.

Information and reservations:
MUSEUM SYSTEM
0743.224952
museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it

As part of the celebrations for the 825th anniversary of the Cathedral’s dedication, the Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia Monsignor Renato Boccardo with the Scientific Committee composed of Professors Massimiliano Bassetti, Maria Teresa Gigliozzi, Enrico Menestò, Emore Paoli, Serena Romano, Giovanna Sapori, and Bruno Toscano, conceived and promoted the exhibition Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication, produced by Opera Laboratori with a catalogue by Sillabe. The main theme of the exhibition, scheduled from 2 April to 16 July 2023, is the grandiose renovation of the early medieval Cathedral carried out between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, an undertaking that reflects an important phase in the religious and cultural history of the city of Spoleto and its vast diocese.

Title: Spoleto sacra 1200. Nell’825° anniversario della dedicazione della Cattedrale (Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication)
Venue: Spoleto, Museo Diocesano
Period: April 2 – July 16, 2023
Opening times: every day10.00-13.30, 14.30-18.00
Catalogue: published by Sillabe, Livorno
Information: Tel. 0577 286300
Mail: duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
Web: www.duomospoleto.it

Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
Ph. 0743 522620

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Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
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As part of the celebrations for the 825th anniversary of the Cathedral’s dedication, the Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia Monsignor Renato Boccardo with the Scientific Committee composed of Professors Massimiliano Bassetti, Maria Teresa Gigliozzi, Enrico Menestò, Emore Paoli, Serena Romano, Giovanna Sapori, and Bruno Toscano, conceived and promoted the exhibition Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication, produced by Opera Laboratori with a catalogue by Sillabe. The main theme of the exhibition, scheduled from 2 April to 16 July 2023, is the grandiose renovation of the early medieval Cathedral carried out between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, an undertaking that reflects an important phase in the religious and cultural history of the city of Spoleto and its vast diocese.

Title: Spoleto sacra 1200. Nell’825° anniversario della dedicazione della Cattedrale (Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication)
Venue: Spoleto, Museo Diocesano
Period: April 2 – July 16, 2023
Opening times: every day10.00-13.30, 14.30-18.00
Catalogue: published by Sillabe, Livorno
Information: Tel. 0577 286300
Mail: duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
Web: www.duomospoleto.it

Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
Ph. 0743 522620

Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
Facebook: Cinema Sala Frau
cinemasalafrau@gmail.com
Ph. 0743/522177

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As part of the celebrations for the 825th anniversary of the Cathedral’s dedication, the Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia Monsignor Renato Boccardo with the Scientific Committee composed of Professors Massimiliano Bassetti, Maria Teresa Gigliozzi, Enrico Menestò, Emore Paoli, Serena Romano, Giovanna Sapori, and Bruno Toscano, conceived and promoted the exhibition Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication, produced by Opera Laboratori with a catalogue by Sillabe. The main theme of the exhibition, scheduled from 2 April to 16 July 2023, is the grandiose renovation of the early medieval Cathedral carried out between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, an undertaking that reflects an important phase in the religious and cultural history of the city of Spoleto and its vast diocese.

Title: Spoleto sacra 1200. Nell’825° anniversario della dedicazione della Cattedrale (Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication)
Venue: Spoleto, Museo Diocesano
Period: April 2 – July 16, 2023
Opening times: every day10.00-13.30, 14.30-18.00
Catalogue: published by Sillabe, Livorno
Information: Tel. 0577 286300
Mail: duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
Web: www.duomospoleto.it

Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
Ph. 0743 522620

Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
Facebook: Cinema Sala Frau
cinemasalafrau@gmail.com
Ph. 0743/522177

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As part of the celebrations for the 825th anniversary of the Cathedral’s dedication, the Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia Monsignor Renato Boccardo with the Scientific Committee composed of Professors Massimiliano Bassetti, Maria Teresa Gigliozzi, Enrico Menestò, Emore Paoli, Serena Romano, Giovanna Sapori, and Bruno Toscano, conceived and promoted the exhibition Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication, produced by Opera Laboratori with a catalogue by Sillabe. The main theme of the exhibition, scheduled from 2 April to 16 July 2023, is the grandiose renovation of the early medieval Cathedral carried out between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, an undertaking that reflects an important phase in the religious and cultural history of the city of Spoleto and its vast diocese.

Title: Spoleto sacra 1200. Nell’825° anniversario della dedicazione della Cattedrale (Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication)
Venue: Spoleto, Museo Diocesano
Period: April 2 – July 16, 2023
Opening times: every day10.00-13.30, 14.30-18.00
Catalogue: published by Sillabe, Livorno
Information: Tel. 0577 286300
Mail: duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
Web: www.duomospoleto.it

Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
Ph. 0743 522620

Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
Facebook: Cinema Sala Frau
cinemasalafrau@gmail.com
Ph. 0743/522177

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Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.

In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.

Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.

Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.

Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.

The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.

This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.

The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.

Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.

Dacia Maraini photographer

A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.

Serafino Amato

Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281

As part of the celebrations for the 825th anniversary of the Cathedral’s dedication, the Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia Monsignor Renato Boccardo with the Scientific Committee composed of Professors Massimiliano Bassetti, Maria Teresa Gigliozzi, Enrico Menestò, Emore Paoli, Serena Romano, Giovanna Sapori, and Bruno Toscano, conceived and promoted the exhibition Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication, produced by Opera Laboratori with a catalogue by Sillabe. The main theme of the exhibition, scheduled from 2 April to 16 July 2023, is the grandiose renovation of the early medieval Cathedral carried out between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, an undertaking that reflects an important phase in the religious and cultural history of the city of Spoleto and its vast diocese.

Title: Spoleto sacra 1200. Nell’825° anniversario della dedicazione della Cattedrale (Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication)
Venue: Spoleto, Museo Diocesano
Period: April 2 – July 16, 2023
Opening times: every day10.00-13.30, 14.30-18.00
Catalogue: published by Sillabe, Livorno
Information: Tel. 0577 286300
Mail: duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
Web: www.duomospoleto.it

Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
Ph. 0743 522620

Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
Facebook: Cinema Sala Frau
cinemasalafrau@gmail.com
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Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.

In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.

Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.

Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.

Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.

The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.

This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.

The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.

Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.

Dacia Maraini photographer

A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.

Serafino Amato

Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281

As part of the celebrations for the 825th anniversary of the Cathedral’s dedication, the Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia Monsignor Renato Boccardo with the Scientific Committee composed of Professors Massimiliano Bassetti, Maria Teresa Gigliozzi, Enrico Menestò, Emore Paoli, Serena Romano, Giovanna Sapori, and Bruno Toscano, conceived and promoted the exhibition Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication, produced by Opera Laboratori with a catalogue by Sillabe. The main theme of the exhibition, scheduled from 2 April to 16 July 2023, is the grandiose renovation of the early medieval Cathedral carried out between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, an undertaking that reflects an important phase in the religious and cultural history of the city of Spoleto and its vast diocese.

Title: Spoleto sacra 1200. Nell’825° anniversario della dedicazione della Cattedrale (Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication)
Venue: Spoleto, Museo Diocesano
Period: April 2 – July 16, 2023
Opening times: every day10.00-13.30, 14.30-18.00
Catalogue: published by Sillabe, Livorno
Information: Tel. 0577 286300
Mail: duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
Web: www.duomospoleto.it

Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
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Ph. 0743 522620

Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
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SPOLETO IN FIORE, the floral exhibition with an assortment of quality floral productions and garden items, is back from June 9 to 11, 2023.
Numerous exhibitors from all over Italy will be present.

The event will take place in the city centre, in Piazza Pianciani, Corso Mazzini and Piazza Fontana.

Organization
Associazione Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti”
Via Minervio, 2 – 06049 Spoleto (PG)
Ph. +39 0743 46484 – 331/8855493
prospoleto@gmail.com – www.prolocospoleto.it

CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
A casket of ancient paintings | Saturday at 11 am

ROCCA ALBORNOZ – NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE DUCHY OF SPOLETO
The Rocca: a fortress, a prison, a symbol | Saturday and Sunday at 12 pm

TEMPLE ON THE CLITUNNO
A monument of ancient charm
Saturday 3 and 10 June at 7 pm
Sunday 17 and 24 June at 6 pm

ROMAN HOUSE
A dream domus | Sunday at 3 pm

PALAZZO COLLICOLA
A noble walk | Saturday at 5 pm

Participation fees
Full € 5.00 | Reduced € 4.00 for Spoleto Card holders and from 7 to 17 years | Free up to 6 years |
Upon purchase of the Spoleto Card or the museum entrance ticket.

RESERVATION RECOMMENDED

Visits can be booked on www.spoletowelcome.it

Information and reservations:
SISTEMA MUSEO
0743.224952 | museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it
0743.46434 | spoleto@sistemamuseo.it

SPOLETO TOURIST OFFICE | +39 0743.218620

Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.

In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.

Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.

Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.

Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.

The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.

This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.

The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.

Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.

Dacia Maraini photographer

A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.

Serafino Amato

Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281

As part of the celebrations for the 825th anniversary of the Cathedral’s dedication, the Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia Monsignor Renato Boccardo with the Scientific Committee composed of Professors Massimiliano Bassetti, Maria Teresa Gigliozzi, Enrico Menestò, Emore Paoli, Serena Romano, Giovanna Sapori, and Bruno Toscano, conceived and promoted the exhibition Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication, produced by Opera Laboratori with a catalogue by Sillabe. The main theme of the exhibition, scheduled from 2 April to 16 July 2023, is the grandiose renovation of the early medieval Cathedral carried out between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, an undertaking that reflects an important phase in the religious and cultural history of the city of Spoleto and its vast diocese.

Title: Spoleto sacra 1200. Nell’825° anniversario della dedicazione della Cattedrale (Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication)
Venue: Spoleto, Museo Diocesano
Period: April 2 – July 16, 2023
Opening times: every day10.00-13.30, 14.30-18.00
Catalogue: published by Sillabe, Livorno
Information: Tel. 0577 286300
Mail: duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
Web: www.duomospoleto.it

Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
Ph. 0743 522620

Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
Facebook: Cinema Sala Frau
cinemasalafrau@gmail.com
Ph. 0743/522177

Send an e-mail to the address cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com to receive Spoleto cinemas NEWSLETTER!

SPOLETO IN FIORE, the floral exhibition with an assortment of quality floral productions and garden items, is back from June 9 to 11, 2023.
Numerous exhibitors from all over Italy will be present.

The event will take place in the city centre, in Piazza Pianciani, Corso Mazzini and Piazza Fontana.

Organization
Associazione Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti”
Via Minervio, 2 – 06049 Spoleto (PG)
Ph. +39 0743 46484 – 331/8855493
prospoleto@gmail.com – www.prolocospoleto.it

Three months of events for a total of 56 activities from Sunday 19 March to Wednesday 21 June 2023. This, in short, is the programme of Accade in primavera a Spoleto, the spring events programme organised by the Municipality of Spoleto in collaboration with local associations and institutions, dedicated to music, theatre, readings, art, initiatives for children and families and sport.

Among the events is Spoleto sul Palco, the first edition of the review that will be held at the Caio Melisso Theatre – Spazio Carla Fendi where four amateur companies from Spoleto will perform. With brilliant comedies and prose shows, both in Italian and in dialect, they will bear witness to the tradition of Spoleto in the context of the month dedicated to memory and city identity.

Once again this year there will be a study week organised by the CISAM Foundation, now in its LXX edition, which from 13 to 19 April will propose meetings on Time in the Early Middle Ages.

From 2 to 6 May, the International Dance Competition will be held at the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti. The IDC is the only Italian competition recognised at an international level and included in the International Federation of Ballet Competitions’ list of the most prestigious competitions.

Also returning is the Vaporetti Race, in its 57th edition, which will be run from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 June.

Spoleto in Fiore (Spoleto in Bloom),the market dedicated to flowers and gardening will colour Corso Mazzini, Piazza Pianciani and Piazza Fontana from 19 to 21 May.

On 31 March, Merenda nell’oliveta (A snack in the olive grove) is scheduled, an initiative organised by the member cities of the Association Città dell’Olio (Oil Cities). A day in the open air immersed in the olive-growing landscape, rediscovering the value of conviviality and being together while discovering evocative and lesser-known places. Participants will be involved in various activities such as educational workshops, tasting courses, storytelling with experts (olive growers, millers, agronomists, historians), poetry readings on the theme of oil, dance performances and plays.

There will also be numerous events for children, young people and families such as Spoleto in Gioco (21 May), an entire day dedicated to playful workshop activities for children and young people in Piazza Garibaldi, Corso Garibaldi, Cantiere Oberdan, Villa Redenta Park, Piazzetta dell’Erba and the San Nicolò Monumental Complex.

The opening of Palazzo Collicola exhibitions is scheduled on Saturday 1 April at 11.30 am. Protagonists will be Michael Venezia with Compilations, curated by Davide Silvioli and Nancy Genn with Beyond the Grid, curated by Francesca Valente. The exhibitions will be open until 31 May 2023.

Download the full calendar of spring events

CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
A casket of ancient paintings | Saturday at 11 am

ROCCA ALBORNOZ – NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE DUCHY OF SPOLETO
The Rocca: a fortress, a prison, a symbol | Saturday and Sunday at 12 pm

TEMPLE ON THE CLITUNNO
A monument of ancient charm
Saturday 3 and 10 June at 7 pm
Sunday 17 and 24 June at 6 pm

ROMAN HOUSE
A dream domus | Sunday at 3 pm

PALAZZO COLLICOLA
A noble walk | Saturday at 5 pm

Participation fees
Full € 5.00 | Reduced € 4.00 for Spoleto Card holders and from 7 to 17 years | Free up to 6 years |
Upon purchase of the Spoleto Card or the museum entrance ticket.

RESERVATION RECOMMENDED

Visits can be booked on www.spoletowelcome.it

Information and reservations:
SISTEMA MUSEO
0743.224952 | museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it
0743.46434 | spoleto@sistemamuseo.it

SPOLETO TOURIST OFFICE | +39 0743.218620

Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.

In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.

Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.

Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.

Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.

The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.

This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.

The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.

Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.

Dacia Maraini photographer

A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.

Serafino Amato

Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281

As part of the celebrations for the 825th anniversary of the Cathedral’s dedication, the Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia Monsignor Renato Boccardo with the Scientific Committee composed of Professors Massimiliano Bassetti, Maria Teresa Gigliozzi, Enrico Menestò, Emore Paoli, Serena Romano, Giovanna Sapori, and Bruno Toscano, conceived and promoted the exhibition Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication, produced by Opera Laboratori with a catalogue by Sillabe. The main theme of the exhibition, scheduled from 2 April to 16 July 2023, is the grandiose renovation of the early medieval Cathedral carried out between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, an undertaking that reflects an important phase in the religious and cultural history of the city of Spoleto and its vast diocese.

Title: Spoleto sacra 1200. Nell’825° anniversario della dedicazione della Cattedrale (Sacred Spoleto 1200. On the 825th Anniversary of the Cathedral’s Dedication)
Venue: Spoleto, Museo Diocesano
Period: April 2 – July 16, 2023
Opening times: every day10.00-13.30, 14.30-18.00
Catalogue: published by Sillabe, Livorno
Information: Tel. 0577 286300
Mail: duomospoleto@operalaboratori.com
Web: www.duomospoleto.it