The XXVIII edition of Panormus begins, “Viva Panormus…e Santa Rosalia” – The school adopts the city, the project with a thirty-year history which is aimed at educational and scholastic institutions of all levels, dedicated to the most identifying and evocative: the devout cult, between sacred and profane, of Santuzza, for which 2024 marks the fourth centenary of the discovery of her remains.
As per tradition, Panormus will take place in May: during three weekends (3-5, 11-12 and 17-19), students from seventy-nine educational institutions will accompany visitors to discover the 43 sites of the city connected to the cult of Santa Rosalia : churches, alleys, museums, oratories, and even sanctuaries, paintings, murals and votive shrines.
There will be no shortage of activities aimed at boys and girls in early and middle childhood with “Rosalian workshops” organized by some nursery schools and nursery schools in the atrium of the Leonardo Sciascia municipal library and inside Villa Garibaldi.
On Thursday 6 June the Teatro Massimo, which has always been an important partner of Panormus, will organize the final day of the event. The students of the musical institutes involved in the project will play and sing on the steps of Piazza Verdi. On this occasion, the schools will hand over the keys to the city to the Mayor.
Panormus is a project organized entirely by the compulsory schools and fight against school dropout office of the Municipality of Palermo. This year the Curia and the dioceses, the Superintendence of cultural heritage of the Sicily region, the Teatro Massimo Foundation, the municipal department of Culture, the GAM, Civita, the municipal police, the municipal mobility and traffic office collaborated in its creation. , the Reset, the Rap, the Municipal Villas and Gardens Office, the Police Headquarters and the Prefecture.
An inter-institutional agreement with the regional Department of Cultural Heritage allowed, during the adoption days, the monumental complex of San Giovanni degli Eremiti, the Cloisters of the Salinas Museum and the Central Library to be opened to the public free of charge.
For more information:
