Over 20 museums and 11 works on display in the year of the five hundredth anniversary of the great Renaissance master: with a reduced ticket you can visit, until December 2023, “La Valle di Signorelli”, an unprecedented project between Renaissance and contemporary art thanks to the presence in the circuit of the Burri Museums in Città di Castello.
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This year the Umbrian musical event – number 56 – will pay tribute to our country, Italy, with a rich program of artists and projects of international calibre. Nineteen events, from 23 August to 7 September 2023, which will take place as usual in the art venues of Città di Castello and the Upper Tiber Valley. The focus of the shows will be on Italian music of the period from the late nineteenth century until the Second World War, with particular attention to the cultural climate and musical production arising from the crucial historical events of that moment. But there will be no lack of contributions across the border.
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The origins of the family of the “Marquises”, which later became “Bourbon del Monte”, are lost in the mists of time: the ancient tradition and all the family trees of the archives of Sorbello, place as its progenitor a valiant “Prince Arimberto” of the French dynasty of the “Bourbons”, who accompanied the Emperor Charlemagne to Italy.
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A new bar in Città di Castello, an “easy” place, as Jacopo Brasanti, the young owner, likes to define it: where small restaurants meet the world of the cocktail bar, in a welcoming environment, offering new drinks and above all the legendary ‘schiacciata’.
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A new meeting with the established combination ‘ProjectHouse’ and ‘3Energy’, to address two new topics of extreme interest in the field of the future of construction and sustainable thermodynamics: ‘VMC’ and ‘thermal coats’. Speaking of all-round plant engineering, normally companies offer solutions such as boilers or pellet stoves, tools that however have a limit: they meet the winter needs, losing effectiveness in the summer months. On the contrary, the heat pump is already a generator that, in a single expense, manages to cover the needs of the whole year being able to generate both heating and cooling, even with water heat transfer fluid.
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Thus we begin our journey from the “Museum of Herbs”, which winds through the rooms of the prestigious Renaissance building Bourbon del Monte. At the entrance, an ancient stone set on a wall reports an inscription: Prodest-Obest (Benefits-Harms), probable reference to the activity that was carried out in the building: the art of spices. The message immediately brings attention to the delicate balance and wisdom necessary in the preparation of medicines.
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We recall that Dino Marinelli was officially the custodian of Palazzo Vitelli alla Cannoniera but over the years, thanks to his spirit and ingenuity, he became an appreciated artistic guide, a journalist, a poet and a writer, with more than ten books to his credit.
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The restaurant mainly offers Umbrian cuisine with traditional products but cured and revisited in modern times with cooking techniques and raw materials with an international spark: such as the use of French butters. An important part of Nicolò’s cuisine, indeed almost the basis of his dishes, are vegetables, which act as archetypes directs the multiple flavours, colors and geometries.
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Laura and Luca tell us how, thanks to the constant commitment of the family, they dedicated themselves – for more than twenty years – to the farm, to then move on to design a real accommodation facility. The production choice, entirely organic – and therefore perfectly compatible with ‘natural’ agriculture combined with great attention to sustainability – have allowed them to obtain the high-quality certification of products, 100% bio.
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While working throughout Central Italy, Linda has a vocation for its land, Umbria: “A beautiful region with a particular light – otherwise we would not have had St. Francis!”. “Rather differentiated, as they said, different in the different valleys” – he continues – “its isolation has maintained the region authentic and, until a few years ago, I had to explain to my customers where it was in the world map … the quality of its properties is comparable to those of Tuscany but is less known, therefore less inflated, with its generous nature and the welcoming soul of its people: its history, spirituality, simplicity and rurality “.
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The specialists of Beautypool have been on the market for some years now as a group of professionals able to find efficient and immediate solutions: construction from scratch, renovation, maintenance, coatings, leak research and resolution of the most varied problems: whether you are the owner of a private home or an accommodation facility it does not matter. Their mission is to help you in any case to the best of their ability.
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In the mind of every bride or in the imagination of every couple who intends to announce and seal its (hopefully) eternal union, there is a unique marriage, unrepeatable and never equal to others.
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Among the novelties, the scientific color reconstruction of the first documented work of Raphael, the Coronation of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, edited by Francesco Paolo Di Teodoro and Filippo Camerota, visible in the exhibition through a digital installation produced by the Museo Galileo in Florence, and the scientific account of the important restoration work, by the Central Restoration Institute (ICR), the banner of the Brotherhood of SS. Trinità, the only mobile work of the artist left in Umbria, now located at the Municipal Art Gallery of Città di Castello in the same room of the “Martirio di San Sebastiano’, by Luca Signorelli, one of the most studied artists by Raffaello in his youth. The restoration has allowed to fill some of the gaps present in the work and left ‘exposed’ in the previous intervention of 2006, always edited by the ICR.
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In a recent edition of Valley Life (n. 163, spring 2021) we had already told the passionate historical-documentary research of Umberto Pippolini on Francesco di Bernardone, better known as “Saint Francis of Assisi”. The exciting research of Umberto – esteemed professional and inexhaustible creative – ended with the release of the text, already available in the bookstore: “Il Mio San Francesco di Assisi – Alla ricerca della sua unica e vera immagine”.
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The atmosphere is familiar and informal, but also extremely elegant: the beautiful veranda on the course of Sansepolcro during the Christmas holidays is adorned with lights, the atmosphere is even warmer, there is the desire to take a break from the working rhythms and enjoy a typical Tuscan appetizer, a good wine, a cut juniper and rosemary… But also a cod and shrimp difficult to find in the other restaurants in the area, because the cook Nicoleta has a great skill in cooking fish and in combining its flavors with those of the Tuscan tradition.
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The frescoes of the fifteenth century coexist with an older layer dating back to at least two centuries before, which have a clearly templar nature”. They are part of the original decorative apparatus of this, which could have been a church but also a temple, since the motifs refer to the stone of the temple in Jerusalem.
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