WORTH A TRIP.
101 MORE WONDERS OF ITALY TO DISCOVER (Cinquesensi Publisher, pp 416, euro 30)
"Worth a trip", written by the critic and art historian Beba Marsano, is a book dedicated to travellers, but also to the curious, to lovers of the culture and beauty of our country, always looking for new and exciting places.
It is an invitation to discover or rediscover lesser-known corners and often outside the traditional tourist routes, with innovative ideas and travel ideas that involve the entire peninsula.
The book is part of a trilogy (the first two titles date back to 2016 and 2018) that the author has dedicated to the most beautiful and artistic Italy, traveling to every location to provide the reader with a precious anthology of artistic sites and naturalistic places , enriched by the travel emotions experienced first hand.
In this volume Beba Marsano leads us to the discovery of 101 places, 101 wonders that are worth a trip, with brilliant and cultured writing and evocative images.
With the author we travel between large and small masterpieces in every region of Italy: archaeological sites, precious museums of applied arts, cycles of frescoes, private collections sometimes of surprising value, squares, palaces, landscapes and views.
At the end of the story of each location, the author invites the visitor to a less rushed stop: she suggests a hotel and a restaurant, a designer shop, a winery or recommends a more comprehensive art journey in the area.
Each stop suggests other trips and other insights, a way to enhance the country, to support it by relying on its authentic nature,
The journey, divided by region, starts from the precious treasures of the Castle of Aymavilles, in Valle d'Aosta, and continues in Piedmont to discover, among others, the Accorsi-Ometto Foundation in Turin and the Chinese room of Villa Vidua in Conzano.
Among the less known places that are worth the trip there are also the Boschi di Stefano House-Museum or the Labyrinth of Arnaldo Pomodoro in Milan and the Sala dello Zodiaco in Palazzo D'Arco in Mantua;
the altar by Hans Multscher in Vipiteno and Palazzo Maffei in Verona.
The book also lets us discover the church of Santa Maria dei Battuti in San Vito al Tagliamento, Palazzo Grimani in Venice and the Polene hall of the Naval Technical Museum of La Spezia;
the Polyptych of San Michele Arcangelo in Pigna;
the Oratory of Santa Cecilia in Bologna;
and the Verzocchi Collection in Forlì.
In Tuscany we travel between the Marini Marini Museum in Florence, the National Museum of San Matteo in Pisa and the Nittardi Collection in Castellina in Chianti.
In the Marche we discover among the many proposals the Tacchi Venturi Art Gallery in San Severino Marche and the Aeneid Gallery in Macerata.
The journey continues in Montefalco with the church of San Francesco and in Trevi in the museum complex of San Francesco;
in Palestrina in the Mosaic of the Nile and in Bagnaia in the Villa Lante.
And, again, at the Nineteenth Century Museum in Pescara and at the Termoli Prize Collection,
We continue in Campania to enter the Villa di Poppea in Torre Annunziata, in San Michele Arcangelo in Anacapri and in the Posillipo School of the Correale Museum in Sorrento.
In Puglia, among the many treasures, we discover the walled chapels of Ugento and the mosaics of Santa Maria della Croce in Casarano and in Basilicata the incompiuta of Venosa.
The journey ends in Taverna, in Calabria, in the monumental church of San Domenico;
in the Palatine Chapel of Castelbuono, in Sicily, and in San Pietro di Sorres in Borutta, in Sardinia.
