2023-09-20 18:35:20
by CULTURE EDITORIAL
Sardinia, Sicily and Lombardy will offer a series of themed routes until October 1st, with visits to cathedrals, abbeys, monasteries, country churches, castles and towers
It is a journey linked to a project dedicated to the art and architecture of the Italian Middle Ages, which unfolds over over one hundred cathedrals, abbeys, monasteries and country churches in Sardinia, Sicily and Lombardy. It is very simply called Romanesque Italy and was promoted by the Sardinia Isola del Romanesque Foundation, which last year already organized a regional event involving fifty municipalities and opening seventy Romanesque churches throughout the region. The challenge was taken up by the Lombard Lemine Foundation – which every year promotes Antico Lemine, a festival of the Bergamo Middle Ages – and the Le Vie dei Tesori Foundation which since 2006 has organized one of the major events in Sicily for the promotion of the cultural and landscape heritage, which in its pre-pandemic edition reached 400 thousand attendees. This year the Sicilian Foundation was among other things awarded by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage with the Commendation for the Landscape Award of the Council of Europe on the occasion of National Landscape Day.
Romanesque Italy on weekends until October 1st offers guided tours, events and experiences dedicated to this extraordinary era interpreted by great sculptors, painters, architects and engineers who left their mark on the history of Italian art. Around 100 Romanesque places in Sicily, Sardinia and Lombardy will be digitised, promoted, told and opened at the same time with a guided tour.
Just as an example – the list is available on the website italiaromanica.it – in Sardinia the doors of the church of Nostra Signora de su Regnu in Ardara and the church of San Piero del Crocifisso in Bulzi, the Basilica of the SS. Trinità di Saccargia, in Codrongianus all municipalities in the province of Sassari; the Basilica of San Saturnino in Cagliari, the monumental complex of Santa Maria di Monserrato with the medieval village in Tratalias (Carbonia), San Pietro extra muros in Bosa. In Sicily where the Romanesque style is stylistically influenced by Byzantine and Arab-Norman influences, the Torre di Federico and the Castello di Lombardia in Enna, the church of the SS. Annunziata dei Catalani and the Abbey of Santa Maria di Mili in Messina, the church of San Nicolò Regale and the Regal Abbey of Santa Maria dell’Alto in Mazara del Vallo; the Basilica of Santa Giulia in Bonate Sotto and San Tomé in Almenno San Bartolomeo, in the Bergamo area.
20 September 2023 (modified 20 September 2023 | 18:33)
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