The puppet theater is recognized by Unesco as a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity.
Selected by: itPalermo

In its most classic and codified forms, the puppet show takes shape in the mid-nineteenth century, when stories of bandits and saints, Shakespearean dramas and above all the very popular stories of the paladins of France are staged.
The Theater in via Bara all'Olivella in Palermo is the heart and engine of a recent past and an open future. Since its foundation - on July 18, 1973 - it has always aroused vast interest, both as historical testimony be like theatrical research, continuously attracting the local public and foreign visitors, including authoritative scholars and theater men, who write about it in their memories with interest and wonder.

In 1977 Mimmo Cuticchio founded the Association Figli d'Arte Cuticchio, whose operational horizon is based on the preservation and dissemination of the immense intangible heritage of chivalric culture, which is accompanied by a very precious material heritage (puppets, backdrops, stage machines, costumes, canvases, texts), not only memory but living laboratory of creativity and communication, research and protection of a cultural and spiritual universe of immense value.