treasures of naples
twelve o’clock, November 15, 2021 – 7:12 PM
A Neapolitan wunderkammer of about ten thousand testimonies divided into twenty thematic areas
its Trip Advisor a must. The Bonelli collection, the result of thirty years of research, arises from the desire to make known unpublished aspects tending to show the city of Naples from the anthropological point of view and more generally of its daily life. Curiosities, relics, documents and objects, represent a corpus that deals with every area, having as a common thread, the Neapolitan culture and civilization. Now the collection is housed at the Casa dello Scugnizzo, in Materdei (piazzetta San Gennaro) but his aficionados are trying to get him a seat that can contain it in its entirety.
A treasure, which the architect of these researches and acquisitions, Gaetano Bonelli, has never considered his because through these precious testimonies it is possible to learn more about Neapolitan history and culture. For this reason the need arises – desire, to be able to share this collection with connoisseurs, scholars, simple enthusiasts, tourists and in particular young people for the high educational purposes that would arise from it, so that through it, you can get to know better and love an extraordinary city such as Naples and in return to contribute to its redemption.
But what’s in the collection that can be visited by appointment? Of all, a Neapolitan wunderkammer of about ten thousand testimonies divided into twenty thematic areas: transport, emigration, food and wine, hygiene and pharmacopoeia, commerce, banks and insurance companies, games and lotteries, philatelic, legal, religious, photography, postcards, urban planning and architecture , entertainment (theater, cinema, circus), education, autographs, journalism, publishing, politics.
The deserving city promotion site VisitNaples so he launched into one to keep a synthesis: From the wooden matrices of the Neapolitan cards dated 1825 to a small fabric image of the first half of the nineteenth century depicting the Madonna of the Chinese in Naples complete with almond eyes. In the collection “Il Cappello di San Gennaro”, a contact relic from the first half of the 19th century, the projects of the old Central Station of Naples, those of the city funiculars, tram tickets at the turn of the nineteenth century, theater posters of all the Neapolitan theaters starting from the pre-unification period and a series of precious documents of a political-administrative nature, such as the Garibaldi’s pizzini upon entering the city. Posters and advertising posters, calendars, catalogs of old companies, testimonies concerning the phenomenon of emigration and much more….
And the cultural association Locus Iste offers a guided tour of the Wunderkammer Bonelli, a real room of wonders that will fascinate the visitor with its stories and 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 … in the Materdei metro, via Appulo exit. Reservations: 3472374210 or locusisteinfo@gmail.com. Complete information on all guided tours can be found on the website www.locusisteblog.wordpress.com.
November 15, 2021 | 19:12
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