'Rinascite' is the title of the first edition of the Festival of Medieval Cities, which has been in full swing in L'Aquila for a few days now. The kermesse, scheduled until Sunday 25 June, takes place in the Castle Park and in the Park Auditorium; the festival is a great historical dissemination event conceived by the University and the Municipality of L'Aquila, the only large Italian city born in the age medieval.
L'Aquila 'capital' of medieval cities
The event is organized around a series of cultural meetings with historians, artists, writers and journalists. A journey through the centuries, which moves from Mediterranean to Silk Road: squares, markets, banks and hospitals. The centers of power and places of culture; towers and cathedrals between reality and fantasy. Between philosophy and architecture, fashion and urban planning, the world of fantasy and art history. Among the guests Franco Cardini, Alessandro Vanoli, Melania Mazzucco, Marina Montesano, Francesca Roversi Monaco, as well as two great European historians: Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur and José Enrique Ruiz Domènec. The history lessons are enriched by re-enactments, workshops, exhibitions, shows, animations and guided tours.
The heart of the Festival is the Castle Park which hosts the 'Village of Reenactors'. A real medieval citadel in front of the Auditorium designed by Renzo Piano, with the camps of re-enactors from Aquila and a qualified group of historical reconstruction associations from other Italian regions. Arms-bearers, archers, scribes and calligraphers, apothecaries, falconers and flag-wavers will be engaged daily in educational activities, exhibitions and displays. In the 'Village of the Re-enactors' there is also a book fair, with stands of the publishing houses Laterza, Il Mulino, Carocci, Odoya, Viella, Efg, Penne e Papiri and Typimedia. THEThe Medieval Cities Festival enjoys the patronage of the Society of Medieval Archaeologists (Sami); Our Italy; Archeoclub of Italy. Abruzzo national history deputation; Cavalleresca Tournament of Europe and the Abruzzo section of the Italian Institute of Castles.
(Images of the Facebook page Festival of the cities of the Middle Ages)
