From 21st to 23rd June The Italian Touring Club from life to Open for You Under the Stars: a large widespread party, on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the association, with visits to open places Exceptionally for the occasion, so as to allow everyone to know and admire small and large treasures of our country.
Churches, palaces, monuments and archaeological areas will see extraordinary and evening openings to tell stories, reveal spaces not normally accessible, rediscover places and details in suggestive environments, until sunset… and waiting for the stars.
TO Ravenna on the occasion of Aperti per Voi sotto le Stelle 2024 Sunday 23 June the volunteers of the Italian Touring Club accompany visitors to discover the Puppet House Museum (vicolo Padenna 4), a cultural treasure, guardian of the precious Monticelli Collection. With a history dating back to 1840, this museum holds an extraordinary
collection of materials belonging to the Italian tradition of marionette and puppet theatre. Here the history of the Monticelli family of art is intertwined with the history of the unification of Italy and with the history of art, offering an unprecedented look at the past through props and paper materials that tell the tours and programming of the era.
Puppetry represents a meeting point between performance and figurative art, combining popular narratives and high literature.
TCI thanks the La Casa delle Marionette Museum for its extraordinary participation in the Aperti per Voi sotto le Stelle 2024 initiative. Access to this place is exclusively by reservation, with a donation to the Italian Touring Club; the booking is valid for only one participant; To book multiple people, you must make a separate reservation for each participant. Here is the link to book: https://www.touringclub.it/eventi/sotto-le-stelle-ravenna-casa-delle-marionette-burattinai
All the programs of Aperti per Voi sotto le Stelle, the methods of participation, booking and visit can be consulted on www.touringclub.it/sottolestelle.
Open for You Under the Stars is the result of over ten years of experience of the Open for You project of the Italian Touring Club which, since 2005, has been committed to spreading awareness that the heritage of our country is a shared good and that, therefore, it is everyone’s responsibility take care of it.
Precisely for this reason, to participate in the initiatives on 21, 22 and 23 June, a free donation is expected to support the projects of the Italian Touring Club, so as to continue to take care of Italy as a common good.
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With the Aperti per Voi project, the Italian Touring Club has been committed since 2005 – thanks also to its volunteers – to taking care of assets of exceptional value, guaranteeing the continuous welcome of visitors and informative orientation activities in places of art and culture . Over the last 19 years, more than 23 million visitors have been welcomed, with over 1,600 active members in 87 locations in 34 cities in 14 Italian regions.
