Liberrima lands in Bari, the bookshop that in Lecce has intertwined culture and conviviality, creating an appreciated combination of the smell of paper pages and the taste of good food. An unusual declination of experiences of mind and taste, embraced with enthusiasm by Salento and tourists who walk the streets of the ancient village embroidered by the Baroque. In the critical situation of Covid, which has come to the cleaver of expensive rents, if in Bari, as elsewhere, historical and established fashion and food brands close, from Zara Home to Cam, from Cos to Eataly, culture holds, or rather relaunches.
The new challenge
This is demonstrated by the challenge launched by the Lecce bookseller Maurizio Guagnano, founder and owner of Liberrima, with a shop that will open in the center, on the corner of via Calefati and corso Cavour, in the city of the publisher Laterza, where the presdi of reading are resisting: Feltrinelli , Einaudi, Mondadori, flanked by other small bookstores. Maurizio Guagnano confirms, but asks for patience to reveal the timing and details of the new, awaited opening of Liberrima in Bari. His creature was born in the ancient heart of the Salento capital almost 30 years ago. It was 1993 when Liberrima saw the light as an independent bookshop. The first step of a journey never interrupted in the name of culture, of the presentations of authors, of an open and fruitful dialectic with the city and with the citizens of the whole Salento. Liberrima has been a welcoming, inclusive house for all these years, opening its spaces in an eighteenth-century courtyard, a stone’s throw from Piazza del Duomo. The widespread ecosystem of culture and food was the result of a reasoned growth, of a research based on innovation, on non-end novelty itself, structured to consolidate itself beyond fashions, trends, becoming a point of reference.
The appointments
The calendar of events offers meetings with the author, games and workshops with the participation of children, literary dinners, concert dinners, tastings of wine, oil, pasta and other local specialties. Gustoliberrima, in front of the church of sant’Irene, along via Vittorio Emanuele, “the course” of the people of Lecce, the synthesis of Maurizio Guagnano’s new thought. Vinoteca, food and wine bookshop, where wine tasting by the sommelier of the house is the main experience, also in English for the benefit of foreign tourists. The gastronomic-cultural archipelago includes the restaurant “All’ombra del Barocco”, where the meal is eaten between shelves of books. And with the “Literary Basket”, before leaving, you can stock up on all the available offer. From the quiet streets of the baroque village of Lecce to the lively Murattian center of Bari, Liberrima makes the big leap, bringing with her a narrative that hinges on the authenticity of a profile that wants to continue to gather support. We are working. Soon there will be news, promises Maurizio Guagnano, ready to export his successful format. From Lecce to Bari, in the name of culture that unites and excites, that resists crises and knows no bell tower rivalry.
November 6, 2021 | 08:58
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