This weekend all lovers of vintage, recycling or simply gods flea markets they cannot miss the forty-five edition of the Barter and Usual Fair. The event will take place, as usual, in the warehouses of the Mostra D'Oltremare in the Fuorigrotta district in Naples, on 24 and 25 November.
Collectibles, vintage and crafts
This weekend, in the Fuorigrotta district of Naples, from Saturday 24 to Sunday 25 November, there will be the forty-fifth barter and second-hand fair at the Mostra D'Oltremare. It will be an opportunity for many artisans and small traders or simply for someone who has just emptied his cellar or garage to showcase the own merchandise. At the same time, many collectors and lovers of antiques and modern art can indulge themselves in search of the unobtainable item they have been looking for for some time. All in the context of the warehouses of the Mostra D'Oltremare, where various fairs are organized every year. In fact, only the barter and second-hand fair is set up twice a year (in spring and autumn). In fact, many stands will be set up starting from the central days of this week, and will contain every kind of article possible. There will be several counters that will swarm with objects related to creative reuse or vintage items. The barter and second-hand fair, in fact, manages to offer the public about two thousand stands, divided into five categories: small antiques, modern antiques, handmade crafts, collectibles and more. Because we know that everything, sooner or later, comes back into fashion.
The event is organized by shantytown, an association that works on the concepts of replacement e reuse. The boys of Bidonville favors the second, that is the maximum conservation of the object in its original form or modifying it in order to reuse it in a different way. The exhibition spaces are rented to merchants with competitive prices, starting from 130 euro. The contribution requested from visitors is the almost symbolic one of 5 €. Children under 12 and over 70s do not pay.
To contact the association we leave you all the contacts here:
Bidonville 2.0 sas VAT IT08223411219
Via Gianantonio Summonte 17 - Naples tel: 081.5529988
Fax 081.5517210 | [email protected]
Pec: [email protected]
Fuorigrotta, a nerve center of Naples
The forty-fifth edition of the barter and second-hand fair, as mentioned, will take place at the Mostra D'Oltremare in the Neapolitan district of Fuorigrotta. The name of this district derives from the Latin foris cryptam (outside the cave) in reference to the fact that since Roman times it was connected by several caves to the district of Mergellina and has been a predominantly agricultural district. Subsequently, especially in the years of the economic boom, urban interventions were implemented that made it one of the most populated neighborhoods in the city. Not only.
Fuorigrotta, in fact, looks like a real one nerve center of the Neapolitan city, above all sports. In fact, the main city stadium, the St. Paul, PalaEldo (or Pala Barbuto), home of the major Neapolitan basketball teams, Eldo Napoli and Phard Napoli, the Felice Scandone swimming pool, theater of Posillipo and Canottieri Napoli, two of the teams of water polo most important in the world and, finally, the headquarters of the CUS Napoli sports center, where the youth group of the Fiamme Oro trains.
Furthermore, Fuorigrotta is also an important recreational center. There is, in fact, the playground Edenlandia, the Maxicinema The Space and the zoo. The Palapartenope and the Mostra D'Oltremare, moreover, are the venue for important events and concerts. Finally, the district is also an important university seat, with the presence, above all, of the College of Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II.
