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DEFENDING ITALY’S SAVOURS

DEFENDING ITALY’S SAVOURS.

A manufacturing reality made of small and medium-sized enterprises, the result of an ancient tradition founded on high quality also thanks to unique objects.

it is a news by www.mestieridarte.it

Since we entered the European Union we have been told that we must cope with the globalization of markets, that we have to produce great quantites of standardized products in order to conquer ever wider markets and compete with the great multinationals.

But it is also true that Italy’s production is characterised by small and medium-sized enterprises, companies developing their own independent way by concentrating on “small production” and thus creating a completely different trend to the one mentioned above.

This evaluation relies also on quality, original brand and numbered production (such as with many of our wines); thus we can say that a battle is going on inside large-scale production and another in the small segment linked with local cultures and tradition. It is like reading again the cultural battles and the controversies of the late Seventies, when radical designer, interested in local realities, rural cultures and suburban experiences, counterpoised themselves to globalised design (good for every place and linked with an interpretation of our society as depending on one big supermarket).

Hence yesterday is like today. Our “tastes” try to keep their own identity and the hundreds of Italian cheeses, wines, salamis and vegetables find ever more supporters engaged in trying to avoid their disappearing from the market and thus from our table and from the international tables of those appreciating the products of Italian cuisine. The worlds of design, applied arts and craftsmanship have the same problem.

Hence the advice to develop a way to co-operate. “Artistically and perfectly made” objects for our “unique” savours. Two worlds, two production realities we could save through co-operation, based on knowing that both productions described above belong to our “material culture”. A consciousness often lacking.

This would allow the growth of objects expressing identity, belonging, origin, exploiting the success of one of “our” products already enjoying a good success on markets. Consider the wine flask in Empoli grass for our Chianti, the large-sized dishes made in Vietri for our Neapolitan pizza, Grottaglie ceramics for our strong-tasting olive oil produced in southern Italy, or Nove ceramics for our delicate oil from the Garda lake, and Deruta ones for our prestigious Tuscan oil and so on. Many objects for the many products making us world-renowed.

Themes who are linked with food introduce the common dilemma of choosing between globalisation and localisation. We will probably have to work on both sides even though our culture, our traditions and land turn us towards plans oriented towards localisation and our many genii loci.

Why not propose an exhibition where food consumption is associated to the different domestic rituals that make up our (everchanging) daily life, not necessarily focusing on the traditional division of meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner? And at the same time evaluate instruments, products and food conveying Italian diversities through the projects? From tablecloths (fabrics and patterns from Romagna, Abruzzo, Sardinia…) to ceramics (from Grottaglie, Vietri sul Mare, Caltagirone, Deruta, Faenza, Nove, Santo Stefano di Camastra…), glass (Murano, Colle Val d’Elsa, Empoli…), stone (from Apricena and Lavagna, steatite…) and then silver, porcelain, wicker, wood… up to interior design objects.

It is a opportunity to test the many possible links between our manufacturers of objects (artisans and small enterprise) and producers of food, to create and renovate synergies while opening to new possibilities of development and communication.

Written by Ugo La Pietra for magazine Mestieri d’Arte & Design, Anno I, Numero 1, Dicembre 2012, pag.34-35;
(link: www.issuu.com)

Mestieri d’Arte & Design is an editorial project dedicated to the excellence in Italian and international artisanship, to its origins and to its relationships with creativity and style. Not only stories and products but also materials, techniques, ateliers, schools are narrated onto its pages. And above all, the masters: the artisans.

You can read all volumes of magazine Mestieri d’Arte & Design
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2020-03-21
The golden triangle – part two

The golden triangle – part two.

it is an article by Città Meridiane – cittameridiane.it

The rock settlements between Monopoli and Fasano.

Returning to Lama d’Antico, it was certainly one of the largest and inhabited settlements where nothing was missing: houses into the rock with chambers and cisterns for collecting rainwater, shelters for animals, mills for the milling of olives, spaces to host work environments and the magnificent church, completely painted with frescoes.

It is a true cathedral with a central dome, one of the largest cave churches all aroung Puglia. Inside you enter through a monumental entrance that leads into a distinct environment in two apsed naves. Originally the church was completely frescoed but today most of the paintings are faded. A Maiestas Domini is still visible on the lunette of the central apse and on the left wall there is the figure of the apostle Giovanni Evangelista who blesses.

Also in the Archeological Park of Lama d’Antico, the church of San Lorenzo is included, in which a particular iconostasis is conserved and strongly linked to the Greek-Orthodox religious services. And it is precisely here that we find the two Holy Fathers: St. Basil of the Orthodox Church and St. Benedict of the Latin Church. Remarkable are the other wall paintings that are painted with pictorial ability and accuracy for the use of colors and the intensely expressive features of the faces that make this church one of the most fascinating examples of Byzantine art in the canyons of Fasano.

Among the most interesting houses there is Sant’Andrea and San Procopio, in the territory of Monopoli, which can be reached from Masseria Rosati. In the Assunta’s canyon there are numerous cave-dwellings, a mill, an oil mill and other rooms for handicraft use, and the crypt church with a sculpted front with great care and skill. Very interesting is the long inscription engraved in Latin above the lunette that dates the church to 1073.

Also the bema of this church is unusual in the area, as it has a double separation in stone 50 cm high with two openings in the direction of the apses. With regard to the wall paintings, a Saint George on horseback, the saint of the Crusades, is still visible. In the paintings of San Procopio one can perceive the passage from the Byzantine tradition to a new pictorial current of western inspiration with Norman-Swabian matrix.

Angevins paintings are present in the depiction of Sant’Eligio painted with bright colors and the symbols attributed to him by tradition as patron of the farriers: two nails, a hammer, a pincer, a horseshoe and a small black mule.

Our tour ends in the canyon near the Masseria Ottava Grande (Provincial Road 10, Contrada Ottava, Montalbano di Fasano – phone +39 320 6844285 – www.masseriaottavagrande.it – info@masseriaottavagrande.it), a ravine with high walls rocky with a system of large caves of which some used as a oil mill consisting of three large rooms and other small rooms and equipped with millstone working until the ’50s. In front of the farm, the oldest example of a fortified tower, the church of San Pietro from the 12th century which – as explained by the archaeologist Roberta Mussardo, who in the meantime has been added to us – is a typical example of a domed building in axis, whose scheme spread widely in Puglia from the 8th to the 13th century.

The church is a small jewel in which the simple exterior architecture does not predict the extent and the internal richness.

Impressing are the pillars that extend upwards and support the arches of the three domes made with cross vaults.

Subsequently, San Pietro was decorated with elegant floral motifs.

It should be noted that the building has returned to being usable thanks to the Indelli family that owns it, after a long period of neglect. Together with the church the rural house has also been recovered, which is located in the canyon next to which stands an ancient style and a fragrant citrus grove closed by high walls covered in cocciopesto and equipped with stone channels to bring the water from the cistern.

read also THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE – PART ONE

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2018-01-06
The golden triangle – part one

The golden triangle – part one.

it is an article by Città Meridiane – cittameridiane.it

The territory between Monopoli, Fasano and Ostuni boasts an unparalleled historical and archaeological richness.

The territory between Monopoli, Fasano and Ostuni, in recent years open to quality tourism thanks to the excellent accommodation facilities of the area, can always be considered a golden triangle for the prerogatives offered. In fact, have been there for centuries: an orderly and fertile campaign in which the main protagonists are the imposing and contorted olive and centenary carob trees, an unparalleled historical and archaeological richness and the added value of impressive and magnificent complexes, which is little flattering define farms, a stone’s throw from the sea.

But even before those who now enjoy the area for vacation, this was chosen as a home to many communities of refined civilization, as evidenced by the rock settlements that have impressive hypogeal churches and rich in interesting paintings.

The populations who settled here chose the canyons, deep furrows dug by the rains in the limestone, as ideal places to realize the cave-houses and the caves-churches in the tuff, in the natural cavities enlarged by subsequent workings.

Another element favorable to the sedentary life in the past centuries was the climate in the area that is particularly mild and ideal for the cultivation of olive, almond, citrus and also cereals and vegetables.

It should not be forgotten that during the period in which these places were inhabited, the coasts were infested by Saracen or Berber predators, for which the canyons, sometimes difficult to reach and hidden by the thick Mediterranean scrub, represented an ideal refuge.

The most important and interesting canyon of the territory, both for the beauty of the landscape and for the complex settlements and a church of considerable size and of great artistic value, is called Lama d’Antico (Provincial Road Fasano-Savelletri, Contrada Sarzano, Fasano –www.lamadantico.it – info@lamadantico.it).

Exploring this fascinating and timeless place, we are accompanied by Giuseppe of Cooperativa ARS Archeology, Restoration and Development (for info and visits tel +39 328 3597517 – +39 338 8175123) and by several of the numerous colony of cats that have now become official guides.

As we enter the bottom of the canyon, enriched by a lot of spontaneous vegetation and centuries-old olive trees, we listen to what Giuseppe tells us that catapults us to Puglia in the time between the VIII and the XIII century AD. contention between the Lombards and the Byzantines.

In the villages gathered in the canyons the frescoes paintings narrate a story of peace and of happy coexistence between the two cultures with a contemporary use of Latin and Greek as well as coexistence of both rites. This does not mean that they did not have relations with the ruling political authorities – Giuseppe explains to us – but their isolation allowed them a peaceful existence and cohabitation.

Therefore, the hypothesis that these places of worship were intended as hermit basilic caves chosen by monks coming from neighboring Greece is now closed. Moreover, our guide adds, San Basilio did not found religious orders nor did he promote hermitism.
An irrefutable proof of the contacts between Greek and Latin monasticism is found in the rocky church of San Lorenzo, in which there is the fresco painting depicting St. Basil and St. Benedict next to each other.

read also THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE – PART TWO

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2018-01-04
Why do we have to wait for Black-Friday?

Why do we have to wait for Black Friday?

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2017-11-19
The heart of Apulia

The heart of Apulia.

The territory of the south-east of Bari develops between the Adriatic coast and the hill that introduces the Murge.

Fruit, vegetable and crops accompany the journey along the roads that connect the cities on the sea to those inland that develop around the characteristic Puglia historical centers.

Polignano a Mare, Monopoli and Conversano are the true heart of Apulia, but all around there is a heritage of culture, history and food and wine to discover!

2017-11-18
Colors live in Puglia

Colors live in Puglia.

Where the sun transforms figs and cherry tomatoes, red, trough the white alleys in the city, and it accompanies the vital energy of the green that turns into yellow in the wheat fields, into the vineyards, into the olive oil mills, and warms up the cliffs and the beaches that are lapped by the blue of the Caribbean sea, along the 860 km of coasts in which the eyes loses.

Art, History, Folklore, Food & Wine. Are the predominant elements of Tourism made in Puglia.

You can walk in the footsteps of history among the holy stones of the Romanesque cathedrals, hermitages carved into the rock or baroque churches and among the secular stones of the Federico II’s castles, rupestrian villages and endless dry stone walls that mark the landscape.

You can dive into the blue, the green, in the blue and in the countless nuances of which turns the sea from Gargano to the land of Bari to the deep Salento and that is the background to an uninterrupted series of white villages and historic towns perched on rocky cliffs.

You can immerse yourself into the depths of the karstic caves and then discover the Alta Murgia National Park, the nature reserves and Marine Protected Areas.

For those who want to enjoy sport and adventure this is the right place, because you can discover Puglia through the trekking routes or cycleways and horse trails, among olive trees, oaks and vineyards.

And then you can tease Typical dishes from Puglia, a slice of bread from Altamura DOP topped with tomatoes variety Fiaschetto from Torre Guaceto and Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Or drink a glass of wine Primitivo of Gioia del Colle DOP accompanied by a slice of cheese Canestrato Pugliese DOP and apulian taralli..

Unique products, made by hands, handcrafted stuffs as the whistles of Rutigliano, the Pottery of Grottaglie and the cane baskets of Acquarica del Capo.

Social agriculture and responsible tourism, Agritourism, B & B and historic farms, for those who love ecotourism.

Wellness centers and spas for those who want to spendo several hours to be dedicate to themselves, to their body and mind in a relaxing holiday.

Conference centers, exhibition areas and meeting rooms for those who come in Puglia for business.

From Murgia to the Terra di Bari, from the Valle d’Itria to the Taranto’s Hills and the Ionian coast, from Gargano to Salento: Puglia represent the perfect combination of land and sea, between the sacred and the profane, festivities, rituals connected with the tradition and Francigene streets. Then events, large festivals, music concerts, film festivals and art exhibitions.

Easy to get to (it has two major airports), easy to get around and easy to program.

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2017-01-15