The Liberation Day on Thursday 25 April, with the long weekend lasting until Sunday 28 April, is an opportunity to visit the UNESCO site with Piazza Grande, the Ghirlandina and the historic rooms of the Town Hall, the renovated Museums of the Duomo, the Civico and the Terramara Park of Montale which celebrates its twentieth anniversary with a festival of experimental archeology and workshops to discover the Bronze Age. But also the Fmav exhibitions with Franco Fontana’s solo exhibition.
All information can be found on the dedicated page of the visitmodena website: www.visitmodena.it/it/25aprile
At the UNESCO site in Piazza Grande on Thursday 25 April, Saturday 27 and Sunday 28, you can climb the Ghirlandina continuously from 9.30am to 7pm; on Friday 26th the opening hours are from 9.30am to 1pm and from 3pm to 7pm. On Saturday 27th, at 7pm, you can also take part in the themed guided tour dedicated to “San Geminiano, patron saint of Modena.
The historic rooms of the town hall are also open on the bridge: Thursday 25th and Sunday 28th with entrances at 3.15pm; 16; 4.45pm; 5.30pm; 6.15pm, with reservations required (entrance 2 euros). Friday 26th from 9am to 6pm, free entry with reservations required; Saturday 27th from 1pm to 3pm, free entry. On the same days you can take part in guided tours (by reservation) of the municipal vinegar factory: Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 10.30am, 11.30am, 3.30pm, 4.30pm; on Friday afternoons at 3.30pm and 4.30pm.
The Cathedral Museums can be visited on Thursday 25th and Friday 26th April from 10am to 2pm and from 3pm to 6pm; on weekends from 10am to 2pm and from 3pm to 7pm.
The Nuovo Diurno in Piazza Mazzini is also open: Thursday, Saturday and Sunday continuously from 9.30am to 7pm; Friday from 9.30am to 1pm and from 3pm to 7pm. Entrance is free.
The exhibition rooms of the Civic Museum, on the third floor of the Palazzo dei Musei, will be open on Thursday 25th, Saturday 27th, Sunday 28th April from 10am to 7pm, and Friday 26th from 9am to 12pm, with free admission.
On the ground floor of the Palazzo dei Musei, the Giuseppe Graziosi Plaster Cast Gallery will also be accessible free of charge on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 1pm and from 4pm to 7pm, and the adjacent Roman Lapidary.
The Estense Gallery is also open at Palazzo dei Musei: Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 6pm; Friday from 8.30 to 19.30 (admission fee. Over the weekend for the Liberation Day, the Terramara di Montale archaeological park celebrates its twenty years with guided tours, sound installations in the reconstructed huts of the village which will lead visitors to hear the sounds of life over three thousand years ago, demonstrations of experimental archeology and workshops for children.
In the former church and in the nuns’ hall of the San Paolo complex (via Selmi 63) you can visit “Pandemonium”, the solo exhibition of the Modena artist Sergio Padovani, throughout the weekend: Thursday and Friday from 4pm to 7pm; Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 1pm and from 4pm to 7pm, free admission.
You can also visit the exhibitions of the Modena Visual Arts Foundation starting with “Modena Inside”, the solo exhibition of the great photographer Franco Fontana which inaugurated the new exhibition spaces of the former Estense Hospital. For information: fmav.org.
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