Important paintings and evocative landscapes will be the protagonists of the National Landscape Day in Naples and Campania.
On 14 March 2017 the first one will be celebrated National Landscape Day, an initiative of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, aimed at promoting the culture of the landscape and sensitizing citizens on the protection of the territories.
even the Museum pole of the Campania region adheres to the event by proposing ten meetings of insights through the artistic works that depict evocative landscapes.
The places that will participate are: the Certosa and Museum of San Martino, the Royal Palace, Castel Sant'Elmo, the Archaeological Museum of Teano, the Archaeological Museum of Alife, the Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula, the Archaeological Museum of Sarno, the Archaeological Museum of Pontecagnano, the Archaeological Museum of ancient Capua and the Archaeological Museum of Nola.
Visits to Naples
Certosa di San Martino Museum
In the Refectory of the Certosa di San Martino, the architect Massimo Visone will hold a conference on the "Hilly landscape of Naples", taking inspiration from a painting by Vervloet, The hill of Vomero and Villa Lucia, with the emergence of residential parks up to the post-war building disasters.
Royal Palace of Naples
"Sorrento and Ischia in Smargiassi's poetics"
Two valuable paintings by Gabriele Smargiassi will be exhibited: the Landscape of Sorrento with shepherds and herds and the Landscape with harvest on the island of Ischia.
Castel Sant'Elmo
A game of looks.
The students of the linguistic high school of the Virgilio Institute of Pozzuoli will accompany the visitors on a historical journey of the city and its main monuments starting from Castel Sant'Elmo, which offers a privileged point of view on the surrounding area.
Visits in Campania
Marchaeological useo of Teano
Interesting guided tours on the landscapes of the sacred of the ancient Sidicini. On a hill in the locality of Loreto, there was a sanctuary in which votive terracottas, splendid bronzes depicting female figures and the hero Ercole are kept.
Archaeological Museum of Alife
The division of space in the ancient Alife, which had a plan like a large rectangle with rounded corners, will be analyzed. The internal ways are organized orthogonally on two main axes (cardo and decuman). The towers, with a hexagonal plan, are arranged at the four corners of the rectangle with four main doors.
Charterhouse of San Lorenzo in Padula
It will show the landscape of the border in the paintings of the Cloister of the Foresteria Nobile, in the Loggia del Quarto del Priore and in the stalls of the splendid sixteenth-century choir present in the Church, in the choir of the Fathers, made in tarsia.
Sarno Archaeological Museum
You will admire the marine and river landscapes that decorate the rooms on the main floor and some exceptional finds found in the Valle del Sarno.
Pontecagnan Archaeological Museumo
The stories of the landscapes of Agro Picentino and the Piana del Sele and the importance of agricultural reclamation of these territories will be told.
Archaeological museum of ancient Capua
We will talk about the role of the city of Santa Maria Capua Vetere Capua during the Grand Tour: images, places and stories of travel between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
