From Saturday 18 May, Bologna and its Portici, a UNESCO heritage site, will begin to be celebrated with the first plaque commemorating the reason why they were chosen. The unveiling of the recognition, positioned on the wall of the portico of Piazza Maggiore, next to the URP – there will be forty of them – will take place in the presence of Jyoti Hosagrahar (photo), deputy director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, and will tell the people of Bologna and tourists as the series of Porticoes was inscribed in the World Heritage List in 2021, since it “represents in an exemplary manner an architectural typology of ancient origin and widespread diffusion, never abandoned until today, but in continuous evolution through specific historical periods of transformation of the city”.
There will also be a QR code to scan, to get directly to the dedicated site where you can find the entire history of the contribution, the name of the arcades, the suggested routes, the thematic maps. The ceremony will be enriched by the performance of the children’s and girls’ choir of the Bernstein School of Music Theater which will perform the Hymn of the Portici, and by Marinella Manicardi’s monologue, an original text composed by the actress for the occasion. High digitalisation in dissemination, in short, but also in the care of the porticoes: in fact, an application for use by the administration is already operational, which allows the mapping of interventions to combat graphic vandalism. But on 17 and 18 May the ‘Heritage Meets The Future’ conference will also begin with the most important European cities of the virtuous circuit, with a first day at Modernissimo and a second in Salaborsa.
But it will also be a two-day preview for the Bologna Portici Festival which will then be staged from 4 to 9 June, embracing four districts, from the center to the outskirts. On the agenda of May 17th, at 5pm in the Piazzetta Roberto Raviola ‘From what pulpit?’, with the installation by Flavio Favelli which becomes the ideal inspiration for the interventions of Luca Alessandrini, Francesca Cavallari, Guglielmo Pagnozzi, Monsignor Giovanni Silvagni. At Palazzo Poggi at 8.30pm, a spectacular screening of ‘The Theater of Nature by Ulisse Aldrovandi’. On the program on the 18th at 3pm ‘A Morandi walk’ which will go from Casa Morandi to Grizzana, the birthplace of the great Bolognese artist, and the theatrical text dedicated to the partnership between Morandi and Giuseppe Raimondi, scheduled in the same Casa Morandi in via Fondazza. Booking on the Bologna Welcome website.
Benedetta Cucci
