In Naples and Campania, visits and events in the fortified buildings with the National 2017 Castles Days!
13 Saturday and Sunday, May 14 2017 they will also take place at Napoli and in the rest of the Campania le National Castles Days, now in its nineteenth edition. It will be an opportunity to discover and enhance the fortified buildings of the region with guided tours, meetings, round tables, conferences, concerts, exhibitions and various celebrations, bringing citizens and tourists closer to a very important architectural sector.
You can enter both in castles generally always open and in structures that are normally closed to the public and which will be open to visitors on an exceptional basis. The National Institute of Castles, which deals with this initiative, has been committed to the protection of these buildings since 1964, also cataloging all the defense structures in Italy.
The list of castles participating in Naples and Campania.
Program
Naples - Castel Sant'Elmo
Saturday May 13th
- 10,00 am - Greetings
Anna Imposing - MiBACT, Director of the Campania Museum Complex, Rosanna Romano - Director General for Social Policies, Cultural Policies, Equal Opportunities and Leisure, Campania Region, Fabio Pignatelli della Leonessa - National President of the Italian Institute of Castles - 10,30 Hours - Relationships
- Piero Ventura - University of Naples "Federico II". The defensive structures and the network of castles of the Kingdom of Naples in the sixteenth century.
- Giuseppe Pignatelli - University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”: «Very attentive to defending the city and keeping it in check». Castel Sant'Elmo and the image of Naples between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Luigi Maglio - Scientific Council of the Italian Institute of Castles
Castel Sant 'Elmo: a special case in the history of military architecture. - Giuseppe Mollo - University of Naples "Federico II". The legacy of Pedro Luis Escrivá, exchanges between the West and the Muslim East in military matters in the XNUMXth century.
- Anna Maria Romano - MiBACT, Director of Sant'Elmo Castle and Museum "Novecento a Napoli"
Castel Sant 'Elmo 1976 / 2017. From the refunctionalization to the valorization. - Antonio Bottiglieri - President of the Campania Cultural Heritage Society (SCABEC).
Moderate the meeting Leonardo Di Mauro - University of Naples "Federico II"
- 10,30 - 12,00 - 16,00 - Free guided tours of the castle
Where: Church of Sant 'Erasmo (Piazza d'Armi)
Price: price quotation
Sunday May 14th
- 10,30 - 12,00: Free guided tours of the castle
Reservations required: e-mail castellicampania@virgilio.it - cell. 334 1668830 - cell. 333 6853918 - from 10,00 to 16,30 hours: Costume event - Piazza d'Armi: medieval fencing exercises by the Compagnia d'Arme la Rosa e la Spada - Info: e-mail castellicampania@virgilio.it - cell. 334 1668830 - cell. 333 6853918
Where: Church of Sant 'Erasmo (Piazza d'Armi)
Price: price quotation
Sorrento
13 14 Saturday and Sunday in May
- 10,00-12,00 - Guided tours of the walls of Sorrento by the architect Antonio Amitrano
Info and reservations: arch. Antonio Amitrano tel. 349.6063254 - architetto.amitrano@virgilio.it
Campania
Avellino
Saturday May 13
- 09,30 - Guided tour of the Baronial Palace of Prata Principato Ultra
- 12,00 - Guided Tour of the Palazzo Comitale of Altavilla Irpina
Sunday May 14
- 09,30 - Guided excursion to the castellated rock site of Pietrastornina
- 12,00 - Guided excursion to the castle site of Sant'Angelo a Scala
- 16,00 - Guided tour of the Angevin Tower of Summonte with a concluding round table and the presence of mayors or delegates of the municipalities involved
Info and reservations: arch. Giuseppe De Pascale tel. 333.6636614 - archdepascale@alice.it
Benevento
Saturday May 13th
- 10,00 - Guided tour of the walls of Benevento, organized by the architect Francesco Bove
Reservations: info@bovedam.it - tel. 329.2660592
Caserta
13 14 Saturday and Sunday in May
- 10,00-11,30 - Guided tours of the fortified village and the tower of Pietramelara - See Poster
Info and reservations: arch. Gennaro Farinaro tel. 338.4226054 - gfarinaro@yahoo.it
Salerno
13 14 Saturday and Sunday in May
- 10,00 - Guided tours of the castle of Agropoli by dr. Antonio Capano - See Poster
Info and reservations: dr. Antonio Capano tel. 339.8605936 - acapano50@libero.it - 10-11,30 - Guided visits to the castle of Castellabate by the architect Giuseppe Ianni and of prof. Gennaro Malzone
Info and reservations: arch. Giuseppe Ianni tel. 338.9084330 - architetto.ianni@alice.it
