The Palio of the Contrade Alvignanesi, Tiberio Timperi, Lorenzo Tosa and Sigfrido Ranucci in the Caserta area but also fairs, exhibitions and much more during the Terra di Lavoro weekend. Don’t know what to do at the weekend? Here are our suggestions.
Parties
– Everything is ready for the 2024 Palio delle Contrade Alvignanesi. The event, scheduled for Sunday 26 May with an appointment in Piazza Notarpaoli at 5.30 pm, is organized by the Municipality of Alvignano in collaboration with the associations of the town in the upper Caserta area.
Dating
– Friday 24 May at 6pm, in the splendid setting of the Belvedere of San Leucio, an event dedicated to Queen Maria Cristina of Savoy, first wife of Ferdinand II of Bourbon, who spent so much care in relaunching the silk colony.
– Tiberio Timperi, journalist and beloved host of many successful programmes, among the most familiar and popular names on the small screen, on Sunday 26 May, at 10.30am, at the seventeenth-century Palazzo Ducale “Sanchez de Luna” in Sant’Arpino, will receive the PulciNellaMente Award.
– The 19th edition of “Capua the place of Language” is underway, the literary festival directed by Giuseppe Bellone which since 2005 has celebrated the languages of contemporary culture in the most evocative places of Capua, the city of the Placito Capuano, the first document written in the vernacular dated 960 A.D. Double appointment on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th. On Friday 24th May at 6.30pm Lorenzo Tosa will arrive at the Campano Museum who, with over 740 thousand followers and 1.2 million people reached every month, is the second most followed journalist in Italy: he will meet the public together with students of IT Giulio Cesare Falco from Capua to talk about his book “I would like to ask you about that day. Life and death of a boy who was my father”. To precede the meeting, at 5.30 pm the Giulio Cesare Falco Technical Institute will present the video documentary “Capua place of the mother tongue” created by the Capua Institute for the Ecomuseum 2024 Project. To close the day there will be the show entitled ” A dream called Museum”. On Saturday 25 May at 6.30 pm at the Campania Museum there will be the journalist Sigfrido Ranucci who will be awarded the Placito Capuano 2024 Prize. From 6 pm and until 9 pm the covered courtyard and the Sala delle Madri of the Campania Museum will welcome visitors with a special event: “From the Matres Matutae to the Roman Matrons: History of wine in the Ager Falernus”.
Music
– The Mozart Spring at the Royal Palace of Caserta returns on Saturday 25 May at 5.30 pm with the concert of the Caserta Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Antonino Cascio and with the participation of the oboist Hyun Jung Song, who established himself in 2023 at the International Oboe Competition of Tokyo and “in residence” at the Berlin Philharmonic Academy. Furthermore, on Friday 24 May in Aversa at the Church of S. Antonio we will perform with the Hyun Jung Song recital and on Sunday 26 May at 10.45 am in Capua at the Church of S. Domenico with the repeat of the concert of the Caserta Chamber Orchestra and Hyun Jung Song.
Books
– On May 26th, in Palazzo Fazio in Capua, starting at 10.30 am, the book ‘True story of a pong player from other times’, written by Ciro Arcadio, will be presented. The book is full of various episodes and anecdotes and conveys to the reader the experience that Arcadio lived with the racket in his hand.
– Friday 24 May at 6pm, at the Palazzo della Cultura in via Duomo in Marcianise, there will be the presentation of the book ‘Napoli Stanca’, published by Solferino, edited by Mirella Armiero, an event organized by the Marcianise Vale Association.
– Saturday 25 May at 5.30 pm, at the Palazzo della Cultura in via Duomo in Marcianise, there will be the presentation of the book ‘In health and in illness. Until the lawyer do us part’, published by Dialoghi, by Antonella Sirico. An ironic handbook on separation.
Exhibitions
– “Lœs” will be inaugurated on Friday 24 May at Spazio n°7 in via Vico in Caserta, a double solo exhibition by Luigi Ambrosio and Riccardo Battaglia (on display until 24 June) which takes its name from the pronunciation of the term of German origin Löss ( o Loess): “loose sedimentary rock”, pulverized and transported by the wind.
– The “Visioni” exhibition can be visited until 15 July in the spaces of the Grand Gallery of the Royal Palace of Caserta. The exhibition of the projects “Attraversamenti” by Luciano D’Inverno and “Genius et Loci – The dramaturgy of the gaze” by Luciano Romano.
– Until 8 June at the Palazzo della Cultura the photographic exhibition “Aldo Moro. Memory, politics, democracy” created by the Riccardi Archive to remember the human and political story of the Honorable Aldo Moro.
– At the Regional Horse Riding Center of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, the art, painting and sculpture exhibition entitled “Thoughts, words and colors” will be held until May 26th, set up by the artists: Francesco De Angelis, Luigi Guarino, Michele Mazzone, Titina Petillo, Orsola Piccirillo, Rosa Salzillo, Giuseppina Tecchia Bizzozzaro, Anna Torquato and Anna Villano.
– The events of the 22nd edition of the “Tu Donna” cycle continue. Sunday 26 May at 7pm at the church of the Immaculate Conception of Maddaloni, in via Roma, “La SS. Trinità” with Solemn Mass presided over by the parish priest and vicar of Maddaloni, Don Edoardo Santo, with the Association’s choir and direction by Maestro Antonio Barchetta. Furthermore, on May 25th at 11 am, at the Historical Hall of the National State Boarding School “Giordano Bruno”, there will be the inauguration of “The Bride of Marco Polo”, or the Exhibition-Installation of the Argentine artist Verderame, the Princess of the Veil , which will end on June 1, 2024.
Exhibitions
– The construction exhibition (SED) of Central-Southern Italy will be held until Saturday 25 May at the A1Expò exhibition center in San Marco Evangelista. The fair is divided into five exhibition sectors: Software and digitalisation, Solutions and materials for construction, Systems and home automation, Machinery and equipment and Light construction.
Events
– Until May 26th, at the Maria Carolina Gardens in Caserta there is “Brick Live-Ocean – Your Lego world”. With millions of Lego bricks, the possibility of playing together with the whole family, freeing imagination and creativity. Park open on Fridays from 10am to 1pm and from 3pm to 8pm and on Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 8pm.
