L’AQUILA – With the uncertainty of the weather, exceptional events are also taking place in Abruzzo today, May 1st, Workers’ Day. Between rites, concerts, exhibitions and events.
As regards the trade union initiatives, organized by the CGIL: in the province of Teramo, the departure of the traditional and historic procession which will end in Piazza della Libertà with the interventions of delegates and trade union delegates and with the conclusions entrusted to Maria Grazia Gabrielli, CGIL national secretary.
In the province of L’Aquila, the workers’ day will be divided into three initiatives aimed at spreading the “Caravan of rights” throughout the entire provincial territory. In the capital, starting from 8.30 am, a Flash Mob is scheduled in Piazzale Fonte Cerreto to denounce (ironically from 1st May) the impossibility of using the Gran Sasso cable car, with what may result in terms of loss of employment and wages as well as the compromise of the tourism system present in the Abruzzo Apennines.
In Luco dei Marsi, in Piazza Umberto I, the traditional celebration of workers is scheduled for 10.30am, with an eye towards the peasant struggles for emancipation and redemption which are still relevant today and provide us with an example to imagine the future.
The initiatives of the province of L’Aquila will end in Sulmona, at 5.00 pm, in Piazza XX Settembre, to explore issues such as the impoverishment of the industrial fabric, depopulation, the lack of services and environmental aggression.
In the province of Chieti, for the first time, there is a joint initiative between Cgil Chieti and Cgil Molise which will be held at 9.30 am in San Salvo Marina at the sports hall, aimed at a comparison between the two border realities and their respective Institutional representatives regarding the need to create a perspective of growth, employment and health protection.
Finally in the province of Pescara, in addition to the traditional appointment at 10.00, at the Provincial Palace with the award ceremony of the Ideal Worker 2024 paying homage to those who have particularly distinguished themselves in the workplace, it is worth mentioning, in Manoppello, at 10.00, in Corso Santarelli, a procession of workers and citizens which will end with the laying of a wreath in honor of those killed at work.
The 99 Posse concert is the highlight of the May Day of the Trabocchi coast in the Primavera festival 2024, in Vasto Marina.
First the discussion on workplace safety with CGIL and CISL, then space for music. Free concert by Silvia Midnightformer voice of Matia Bazar, in Francavilla al Mare.
May 1st in the name of tradition in Cocullo where the “Rite of the Serpari” will return, in honor of San Domenico Abate. It all begins with the serpents who go to the mountains in search of snakes at the end of March. Once captured, they are carefully kept in wooden boxes (in ancient times in terracotta containers) for 15-20 days, feeding them with live mice and hard-boiled eggs.
This custom would be linked to the pagan rites of the Marsi, an ancient Italic people. In contemporary times it is celebrated in honor of San Domenico who is considered a protector from toothache, reptile bites and rabies. San Domenico was a Benedictine monk from Foligno who crossed Lazio and Abruzzo founding monasteries and hermitages. In Cocullo he stopped for seven years, leaving one of his teeth and a horseshoe from his mule, which have become relics.
Doors open at the National Museum of Abruzzo in L’Aquila, at the Castle, from 9.30 to 18.30, and at 99 cannelle, from 8.30 to 19.30.
At the Munda delle 99 cannelle, the Franciscan Room was temporarily set up with 14 drawings from the donation of a private collector, in memory of Carmela Gaeta, in dialogue with the seven paintings on canvas by Julius Caesar And Francesco Bedeschini of the Munda collections.
At the castle it will be possible to admire the Mammoth. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the Mammoth, a documentary exhibition at the East Bastion to retrace the phases of the discovery, recovery and study of the specimen under the direction of the professor Angiola Maria Maccagno, director of the Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the University of Rome. Recent archival research requires the date of discovery to be revised.
Access tickets can be purchased directly at the ticket office, on the Italian Museums portal at the link www.museiitaliani.it or on the Musei Italiani app.
In Pescara, at the independent space 16Civico of Pescara, the exhibition “The rooms of the mind” by Maura Prosperi. Also in Pescara, at the Museum of the People of Abruzzo” the exhibition “De Rerum natura” by Antonio Pedretti.
In the province of Teramo, the extraordinary opening of the Propezzano Abbey, with the opening of the cloister and the rooms with the precious frescoes to conclude the tour in the upper loggia tasting the Abbazia di Propezzano wines paired with local products.
The CAI of Atessa, in the province of Chieti, organizes in collaboration with “Atessa Sport Village” a walk along the paths of Atessa, Perano and Archi.
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