Naples
twelve o’clock, December 6, 2021 – 5:46 pm
Guided tour by Locus Iste on Sunday 12 December
The Locus Iste cultural association offers a guided tour of the Bonelli Collection, an extraordinary collection of relics, documents and period objects concerning the anthropological history of pre and post unitary Naples. Born from the thirty-year passion of the journalist Gaetano Bonelli for his city, the collection consists of about ten thousand pieces, divided into twenty thematic areas including transport, commerce, food and wine, autographs, photography, journalism, education, entertainment, philatelics, religion, emigration, politics, games, hygiene and pharmacopoeia.
Precious documentary testimonies that since October 2017 have found space in the premises of the “Casa dello Scugnizzo” Foundation in piazzetta San Gennaro in Materdei 3, forming the Wunderkammer Bonelli, a real room of wonders that will fascinate the visitor with his stories and his curiosities.
Among the many we will be able to admire those relating to the oldest bank in the world, the Banco di Napoli in via Toledo, operational until 2018, the projects of the engineer Pierluigi Nervi relating to the central funicular, the Augusteo theater and the old central station of Naples, some bottles of the early twentieth century of ancient local breweries such as Birra ‘Napoli’ and ‘Partenope’, the photograph of the first locomotive designed and built in 1846 in Italy in the Pietrarsa – San Giorgio a Cremano workshops, one of the first bidets of Nineteenth century, the manifesto of the first municipal and provincial elections of Naples on March 27, 1861, the posters of the Teatro San Carlo and other Neapolitan theaters of the Bourbon period, the wooden matrices of the Neapolitan cards of 1825, the contact relic of San Gennaro della first half of the nineteenth century which was placed on the head of the silver bust of the Chapel of the Treasury dedicated to the patron saint. And much, much more.
Appointment: at the Materdei Metro Station, via Appulo exit. Reservations: 3472374210 or [email protected]. Complete information on all guided tours can be found on the website www.locusisteblog.wordpress.com
December 6, 2021 | 17:46
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