Exibition: Remarkable Italian films

Under the Project “All roads lead…home”, an exhibition with posters of remarkable Italian movies is taking place in the library lobby.

The project “All roads lead...home” is part of the communitarian programme Comenius and it has been developing students, teachers and cultural references exchange from each of the involved partners, Salemi and Tavira.

One of the activities for cultural promotion includes the research work about each of the countries. In this case, teacher José Couto, with the collaboration of his students, made a study about the Italian Cinema and chose twelve representative movies of the seventh art and the Italian culture.

The original Italian posters in size A3 give us a retrospective of one the most important European cinematographies, which include directors like: Vittorio de Sica, Rosselini, Visconti, Fellini, Bertolucci, Benigni e Moretti, among others.

( translation  from the original post in Portuguese by Susana Nassa, English teacher)

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One of the best tourist accommodation structures in Italy

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Different types of tourist accommodation in Italy.

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Unesco sites: Piazza Armerina (En)

Piazza Armerina

The modern town lies 721 m above sea level. The fertile territory has been inhabited since the 8C – 7C BC, from the Greek age to the Roman and byzantine ages and throughout the Middle Ages.

The Roman Imperial Villa del Casale

The groups of buildings which make up the Villa are the most notable archeological testimonies of Roman Sicily. The house, situated in the fertile valley of the River Gela, was build between the end of the 3C and the early 4C AD in the middle of a vast rural latifundium. The villa enjoyed its maximum splendour from the 4C to the 5C AD. The latifundium consisted of a rural village and of a number of “mansiones” (farms) where slaves and “procuratores” (procurators) apllied themselves to exploiting the fertile land. The rooms, peristyles, arcaded courtyards and thermae are extremely interesting to visit for the splendid and incomprable series of figured and ornamental mosaics entirely covering the floors of the buildings. 

Unesco sites: Noto and Syracuse

Noto

Ancient Noto was situated on the Meti hill, 152m above sea level. It was inhabited in prehistoric times, as testified by the numerous necropolis and substantial archaeological. The ancient Neai witnessed a considerable developpement under Hieron I. In Roman times, it became a “civitas foederate”. After the Byzantine age it was conquered by the Arabs and raised to the status of capital of the Val di Noto department, becoming a rich stronghold of Muslim power and Sicily. Under the Normands and the Swabians it was a city of the royal domain, it enjoyed considerable economic and commercial prosperity. In the 16C and 17C the transformation of the medieval town began, but  it was suddenly interrupted by 1963 earthquake.

SYRACUSE

Archaeological investigation has found human traces dating from as early as the 14C BC on the Island of Ortygia, the great city of Syracuse was to be founded in the 8C BC. In a 70-year period led to the foundation of three colonies: Akrai, Casmene and Camarina.

The Greek theatre: Hieron II had it built on the site of a pre-existing theatre whose history is associated with Aeschylus of Eleusis, the first of the great Greek tragedicians, Epicharmus the Syracusan, father of Greek comedy, and their contemporaries Phormides and Deinolochus.

The Ear of Dionysius: this artificial cave, 65m long and 23m high, was given its name by Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio, he visited the Latomie del Paradiso and the cave.

The Temple of Apollo (Apolloyon): It is considered the oldest Doric peripteral temple in Sicily. It measures 58.10x24.50m with 17 columns on the long sides and 6 on the fronts. The cella was divided into isles by two rows of double-order columns.

The Cathedral (Duomo): the Christian basilica was built in the 7C on the site of the pre-existing temple of Athena. Ten Doric columns of the temple. The Cathedral façade was rebuilt in 1725-1753.

Unesco Sites: Agrigento

Agrigento

The Agrigento area was inhabited since prehistoric times. The Aeneolithic settlement of Serraferlicchio has made it possible to identify and date a particular indigenous “facies” of prehistoric Sicily through the discovery of a large quantity of well-made poterry with black decorations on red background.

The valley of the templs

Steps lead up to the sacrificial altar, preceding the east front of the gigantic olympieion. The temple, based ona  very ingenious and innovative design, was built after the Agrigentine and Syracusan victory over Carthaginians. For the majestic propotins, it is considered to be the largest temple in the western world together with temple G at Selinunte.

The temple of Concord

 

is one of the best preserved Doric temples of the ancient Greek world. Its perfect state of conservation is due to the fact that it has continued to be used in the course of the time; it was trasformed into a Christian basilica by the Agringentine Bishop Gregory. 

Unesco sites: Aeolian or Lipari Island

Aeolian or Lipari Islands

The Aeolian Islands, “the seven sisters” all share the same quaternary volcanic origin and where formed as a result of the millenary accomulation of eruptive material and raising of the sea floor.

Only two volcanoes off the vast original system are still active today.

Archaological investigation has continued ever since 1946 thanks to the soprintendenza ai beni culturali (cultural heritage Authority). Excavations have suggested that the settlements in lipari, from the 4^th millenium BC onwards, might be the result of migratory flows from the sicilian coasts,on account of decrated pottery in the style peculiar to the so-called Stentinello culture found on the mountainous spurs of lipari. After various greek periods civilitations began in 580 BC, where the cnidians, back from Pentathlus' unsuccessful expetidions, landed at lipari and founded the colony. Until the roman conquest, lipari followed the fortunes of sicily in the wider contest of the secular struggles among greeks, carthaginians and romans to gain the control of island.

In 836 A.D the arabs destroyed lipari and it was only under Roger,Norman Count of sicily from 1083, that the island and the archipelago revived, also thanks to an active group of benedictine monks who founded a monastery on the ancient acropolis by norman decree.