Saturday, May 19, 2007

18 May 2007
Postcards from the Calabria of first the 1900's
of Donated Marrazzo


The images of Bagnara to the sunset with the fishermen to sea, of the tower of Galliums of Tropea dipped in the poplars, of the castle of Squill, the balconies bloomed in the old one via Padolisi to Cosenza, of the Catholic bizantina of Stilo, have been recovered from going back photographic slabs to the first years of the 1900's from the Soprintendenza for the architectonic assets and the landscape of the Calabria that of it has made one extension, in occasion of the week of the Culture, indetta from the 12 to 20 May from the Ministry for the cultural activities: Imago ut memory, florilegio of photographies of the Calabria of XX the century, leaves tomorrow, in the halls of the old municipal casino of the city, center of the calabrian agency.

Seventy dagherrotipi they reveal unknown profiles of landscapes, historical centers and monuments of an age, that one between the two wars, that it seems farthest: impossible to today find again the same point of view and therefore the same end of the photographies, cancelled from the concrete and inexorable and chasing the transformations of the landscape and the city centers.Restored from the institute centers them for the catalogue and the documentation, the slabs have been developed and collections on panels that bring back also literary descriptions of the places, found again in old notes of travel of writers and journalists of the tempo.O of hardly previous ages, like English Swinburne, that the beauty of the income to the city of Tropea from the sea tells all, and Edward Lear, that it describes the castle of Reggio Calabria, partially destroyed from the earthquake of 1908. The preparation, cured from the architect Paul (Pasquale) Lopetrone, is articulated in three sections: historical landscapes, centers and monuments.

"the places are values", say the supervising Francisco Paul Cecati that give 2002 guide the agency for the protection and the valorization of the territory. "With this photographic review we give back to the cultural patrimony rare objects and of protection and at the same time we document to an age, facing the topic of the recovery through the search of the continuity between passed present and. Forests, navy, agglomerate to you city, concur to recover the visual memory but they are also a testimony that can open a rubble in the limbo in which it still comes relegated our Calabria. An attempt – it concludes Cecati - than today one takes advantage also of one publication, Monuments in lands of Calabria, published from Giordanelli, cured from the didactic section of the Soprintendenza, distributed in the cities and above all in the schools calabrians ".