Following the success of last year’s exhibition dedicated to the ideal dialogue between Giotto and Lucio Fontana centered on a comparison of two masterpieces by El Greco (Domínikos Theotokópoulos An undisputed master for his expressive style characterized by elongated figures El Greco was called “the Delacroix of the Renaissance” and inspired artists such as Cézanne and Picasso.Educated in Crete immobile universe of the Oriental tradition and refined his dramatic use of color and light under the influence of Titian After a period in Rome with Cardinal Alessandro Farnese hoping to obtain the position of official court painter to King Felipe II he found important commissions that allowed him to consolidate a style in which dynamic twists of bodies and sudden flashes emphasized the feelings and emotions of his figures made possible thanks to a collaboration with theAccademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome the MAN in Nuoro presents The Adoration of the Magi a work by El Greco that remained unknown to the chronicles for centuries and was only recently restored to the authorship of the Cretan master after lengthy restoration and scientific investigation The exhibition also includes the Blessing Savior from the Civic Museums of Reggio Emilia and recently exhibited at the Palazzo Reale in Milan in a retrospective dedicated to El Greco The exhibition is enhanced by a documentary film produced by MAN and made by Stefano Conca Bonizzoni which introduces visitors to the artist’s unique history and techniques oil on canvas) © Accademia Nazionale di San Luca The operation was carried out by the Guardia di Finanza of Nuoro the men of the Guardia di Finanza of Nuoro in collaboration with the Economic-Financial Police Unit and the Organized Crime Investigation Group of Cagliari have completed an important operation aimed at combating drug trafficking The operation led to the seizure of approximately 3.500 hemp plants identified in the countryside of the municipalities of Fonni This activity is part of an intensive monitoring program on hemp cultivation in the province A key role was played by the information transmitted by the Guardia di Finanza Air Section of Elmas which allowed the illegal cultivations to be located and the operation to be completed successfully three people were reported to the Judicial Authority for illegal cultivation of hemp The analyses on the seized products revealed a THC content significantly higher than the legal limits from which it is estimated that approximately 1.500 kilograms of dried inflorescences and leaves could have been obtained could have generated illicit profits of approximately 15 million euros Read also other news on Nova News Click here and receive updates on WhatsApp Follow us on the social channels of Nova News on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Telegram It was a collaboration that profoundly marked his career and placed him among the protagonists of the international design scene composition and creative play constitute his main areas of research The fast rhythm of fingers on the keys of a typewriter the inner workings of calculators transformed into dynamic and cheerful patterns are some of the figures of his language “Graphics is not sub-painting,” Pintori replied to those who questioned him about the language of the sign as his friend and poet Vittorio Sereni pointed out of “liberating the latent resources contained in the object or product that [...] is proposed.” which traces the artist’s creative and professional iter showing the ideational process from which the projects that have characterized his career is part of a broader process of valorization that the MAN Museum of Nuoro dedicates to the authors born in the Sardinian territory and who have become protagonists of the world art scene His career was studded with awards and recognition: from the Palme d’Or of the Italian Advertising Federation in 1950 to the Gold Medal of the Milan International Fair in 1956 to the Eight Annual Typographic Excellence Award of the Type Directors Club of New York in 1962 During the first meeting of the newly formed AGI - Alliance graphique Internationale - Pintori was made a member and later became president for Italy of the same award while the famous Japanese magazine “Idea” included him in the roll of the thirty most significant designers of the 20th century The exhibition project is accompanied by a catalog published by Silvana Editoriale which offer an in-depth reading of Pintori’s work and his influence on advertising graphics and design A day of mourning has been declared in the city today and her children Martina and Francesco Gleboni the victims of the family massacre of last September 10 in the capital of Barbagia will be celebrated this afternoon at 25:XNUMX pm in the parish of San Domenico Savio in Nuoto The function will be officiated by Don Stefano Saba a day of mourning has been proclaimed for today the 69-year-old neighbor who was killed in the landing after the explosion of violence within the Gleboni family The ceremony will be officiated by the parish priest Don Giovanni Chessa took his own life after committing the tragic act Gleboni also injured his 14-year-old son and his 84-year-old mother that for 300 years only the women of a single Sardinian family knew how to make it Sardinia’s craggy interior is a twisting maze of deep chasms and impenetrable massifs that shelter some of Europe’s most ancient traditions Grandmothers gaze warily at outsiders from under embroidered veils in a modest apartment in the town of Nuoro a slight 62-year-old named Paola Abraini wakes up every day at 7 am to begin making su filindeu – the rarest pasta in the world there are only two other women on the planet who still know how to make it: Abraini’s niece and her sister-in-law both of whom live in this far-flung town clinging to the slopes of Monte Ortobene No one can remember how or why the women in Nuoro started preparing su filindeu (whose name means “the threads of God”) the recipe and technique have only been passed down through the women in Abraini’s family – each of whom have guarded it tightly before teaching it to their daughters But after an unexpected invitation to Abraini’s home “I’ve been making pasta for 20 years and I’ve never seen anything like this.” “Many people say that I have a secret I don’t want to reveal,” Abraini told me Su filindeu is made by pulling and folding semolina dough into 256 perfectly even strands with the tips of your fingers and then stretching the needle-thin wires diagonally across a circular frame in an intricate three-layer pattern It’s so difficult and time-consuming  to prepare that for the past 200 years the sacred dish has only been served to the faithful who complete a 33km pilgrimage on foot or horseback from Nuoro to the village of Lula for the biannual Feast of San Francesco the October feast was three days away and Abraini had just finished making enough su filindeu to feed the 1,500 pilgrims expected to descend on Lula from throughout Sardinia She worked five hours every day for a month to make 50kg of the pasta “There are only three ingredients: semolina wheat vigorously kneading the dough back and forth the most important ingredient is elbow grease.” Abraini patiently explained how you work the pasta thoroughly until it reaches a consistency reminiscent of modelling clay then divide the dough into smaller sections and continue working it into a rolled-cylindrical shape “understanding the dough with your hands.” When she feels that it needs to be more elastic she dips her fingers into a bowl of salt water she dips them into a separate bowl of regular water “It can take years to understand,” she beamed When the semolina reached just the right consistency Abraini picked up the cylindrical strand to stretch and fold the dough doubling it as she pressed the heads of the su filindeu into her palms She repeated this sequence in a fluid motion eight times she was left with 256 even strands about half as wide as angel-hair pasta She then carefully laid the strands on a circular base trimming any excess from the ends with her fingers before repeating the process over and over she took the base outside to dry in the Sardinian sun the layers hardened into delicate sheets of white razor-thin threads resembling stitched lace Abraini then broke the circular sheets into crude strips and packed them into boxes ready for the San Francesco feast’s prior to place them in boiling sheep’s broth with grated pecorino and offer it as a thick soup to the pilgrims “No one’s really sure how this ancient tradition started but it’s at the heart of the festival,” Stefano Flamini But after more than 300 years in the same matrilineal family tree these threads of God may need a miracle to survive for future generations Only one of Abraini’s two daughters knows the basic technique and lacks the passion and patience of her mother Neither of Abraini’s daughters have daughters of their own The two other women in Abraini’s family who still carry on the tradition are now both in their 50s and have yet to find willing successors among their own children “Conserving su filindeu isn’t just a question of a culinary art form but also a piece of cultural identity,” Ponzio added Abraini has done something previously unheard of with her family’s tightly guarded dish: she attempted to teach girls in Nuoro from other families how to make it she approached the local government to see if she could open up a small school she agreed to invite students into her home “The problem was that once they saw how I actually do it Today, there are only three women alive who know how to make su filindeuYet, Abraini refuses to let the tradition fade away, making it her mission to share su filindeu with the world. In the last few years, Italy’s premier food and wine magazine, Gambero Rosso has invited her to Rome twice so they can film her preparing the dish she’s begun making su filindeu for three restaurants in the area – and in the process offering non-pilgrims a chance to taste it for the first time At one of those restaurants, Al Ciusa her black squid-ink dyed su filindeu nero won Sardinia’s Porcino d’Oro prize for best dish in 2010 At another, Il Refugio “We have people coming from all over Europe just to taste it,” owner Silverio Nanu told me as I sampled the dish for me it’s a blessing just to be able to make su filindeu I’ve been in love with it since the first time I ever saw it “I hope to continue to make if for many years ahead – but if one day I have to stop Custom Made is a BBC Travel series that introduces you to custodians of cultural traditions all around the world If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called “If You Only Read 6 Things This Week”. 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I’ve traveled extensively throughout mainland Italy over the past 20 years I love the subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle differences in the regions from north to south and east to west my trip to Sardinia this past November was my first encounter with the island Italy’s second largest island after Sicily Sardinia is best known for its beaches and emerald coast I visited for a completely different reason I was on a mission to see as much of the interior of the island as possible I wanted to visit the villages that comprise the island’s “Blue Zone.” It’s a demographic region where people live active lives past the age of 100 They have generally positive attitudes and a low incidence of heart disease Alzheimer’s and other common chronic illnesses This small area of Sardinia has fascinated demographers and anyone studying extreme longevity and overall physical and mental health including the National Geographic magazine and its team of photographers the trip was a must for me and long overdue I’ve studied longevity and made presentations on the topic for community groups and at conferences but I needed to explore the phenomenon first hand meet with local researchers and talk to actual centenarians What I saw and experienced was extraordinary and transformational I spent my first evening in Sardinia’s capital Cagliari was a bustling metropolis with heavy traffic and commuters from the surrounding areas arriving to their work places I immediately sensed a difference from mainland Italy rather than the typical Italy that I know and visit often I asked my guide if people living in Sardinia consider themselves Sardinians first and Italians second I was ready for my journey to the Blue Zone located about 70 kilometers north of the capital The entire island of Sardinia is not a Blue Zone and it does not necessarily enjoy the same health and longevity I was surprised to learn the majority of Sardinians living outside the Blue Zone encounter the same rates of heart disease diabetes and other chronic illness as the rest of the western world The first big surprise came on day one of the journey Maria Chiara Fastame from the University of Cagliari Fastame is a published research scientist who studies the disposition and resilience of the centenarians I assumed the lifestyle of the people living in the villages was one of reduced stress a perfect diet and of course living in a beautiful environment one of her opening comments was “life in the villages of the Blue Zone was no Shangri-La.” The denizens live a Spartan and physically demanding life Fastame and other researchers estimate the average distance a villager walks in a day is between six and eight miles spending months away from their families while living in the forest with their flocks there’s no opportunity to return each evening Their diet is determined by what they can forage in the woods They eat bread that keeps for long periods of time layered with thin slabs of lard from pigs that the families raise Life for the families living at home isn’t much easier They tend gardens and prepare food to bring at various intervals to the shepherds raising children that they brought into the world on their own and with the help of the community Despite what we might consider a harsh way of life Fastame reports that older adults from the Blue Zone display an unusual combination of low level of mental illness and high level of perceived wellbeing Both contribute to high resilience in the face of adversity unexpected because low socioeconomic status is more often associated with worse mental health and wellbeing I soon met with Marcella Her husband died two years ago at the age of 102 I asked her what life was like 75 years ago when her husband was gone for long periods and their living conditions were especially difficult The simplicity and wisdom of her answer took me aback “We did not waste our lives chasing things outside of the possibilities for our lives Her response revealed a unique acceptance and gratefulness for life as it is — even while living through the deprivation of two world wars Marcella lives in the same home she and her husband built many decades ago and her family checks in on her each day As I continued meeting other Sardinians living long and purposeful lives I sensed a strong foundation and support system from family and friends There is genuine caring for others whether they old or young I noticed keys in the doors of almost every home Keys are left in the door in case anyone wants to stop in to visit or help the oldest of the old Everyone knows each other and a sense of trust and safety prevails within the villages I was innately interested in the diet of the centenarians It was no surprise learning they mainly eat what they can grow in their gardens forage from the woods and preserve for later consumption Cheese is made from the milk of their goats and each family owns a pig that eventually contributes to their diet garden vegetables and minimally processed whole grains comprise most of the daily diet I also noticed high consumption of walnuts from trees they grew seemingly everywhere Families snack on them after lunch and dinner and sometimes while sitting by their fireplaces Everyone has a fireplace at home as central heating mainly doesn’t exist on the island Being immersed in the Blue Zone was enchanting and unsettling at the same time While I know we can’t live like the residents there I found myself asking how humanity could dial back a bit on some of our “progress” and tap back into our sense of wonder about life our acceptance of and gratitude for what we have I wanted to carry all that I saw back to the states and share so much of it with others While we can’t — and might not want to — live like the denizens of the Blue Zone there is so much that we can learn from them and attempt to integrate into our daily lives If you’re interested, I will be blogging more information, details and photos on my website at https://www.foodnotmeds.com/ The above appears in the February 2020 issue of the print version of Fra Noi. 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Tags May has always been a special month for St I’m so excited for you that you will be visiting the Blue Zone of Sardinia It’s a beautiful and fascinating place If you want to focus on the Blue Zone it’s important to stay in one of the villages in the Blue Zone not all of Sardinia represents the Blue Zone If you search for hotels there you will be in the “Blue Zone.” I was going to attached a map but the program doesn’t accommodate attachments There aren’t alot of hotels in the area but they are comfortable I am considering traveling to the nuoro region in December; however I am struggling to find transportation from the Cagliari Elmas Airport I am considering renting a car but would prefer to take public transportation I am wanting to explore Sardinia to connect with the local centenarians to learn more about their daily living behaviors as I am highly interested in health and longevity (I just graduated with a BS in nutrition and am planning to attend PA school) I was also wondering how you were able to connect to the locals and gain these valuable experiences Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Click here for details The explosion could have been caused by a gas leak: two other possible missing persons are sought Explosion with subsequent collapse of a rural house a Tiana in the Nuoro area: from 8.20 Nuoro Fire Brigade to work from the rubble extracted two people alive the search for two possible missing persons is underway The canine group and USAR teams from Cagliari are arriving by helicopter from Tempio The explosion could have been caused by a gas leak You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed Farmers on Italian island say they are disillusioned after previous damage and want compensation Huge swarms of locusts are wreaking havoc on the Italian island of Sardinia arriving a month earlier than in previous years The worst-affected area is the province of Nuoro where the winged insects have decimated crops across 25,000 hectares (62,000 acres) of land following swarms in 2019 said to be the worst in decades and further infestations in 2020 and 2021 the president of the Nuoro unit of Coldiretti said their passage destroyed the crops of an entire field sending months of farmers’ work and investments “up in smoke” The locusts are also wrecking vegetable gardens Salis said that after three years of complaints and proposals to authorities to tackle the insects “we are shocked that we still find ourselves talking about the invasion of locusts” He added: “Farmers are now disillusioned and this year some changed their crop plan in order to try and limit the damage because they knew nothing would change they have not yet received a euro to compensate for the damage suffered.” said on Monday that an anti-locust taskforce was working unabated “There is no time to lose,” she told the local press was identifying the worst-affected areas and accelerating pest control operations “The maximum collaboration of farmers and all other interested parties is required,” she said The infestation comes days after regional authorities approved €2m (£1.7m) in compensation to farmers whose crops were damaged by the insects in 2021 told L’Unione Sarda newspaper: “The invasion of locusts devastated the Nuoro countryside Compensation is essential to allow farmers to cope with a sharp decline in their income guaranteeing concrete support in the face of an emergency that has added to their difficulties of recent years.” MAN in Nuoro presents the previously unseen exhibition GIOTTO | FONTANA in collaboration with Mart in Rovereto and Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice The exhibition aims to investigate the nexus that links Lucio Fontana ’s spatial research with the value of space in Giotto’s compositions together with the highly symbolic presence of the color gold in its reification of the infinite and elsewhere.A new sense of reality and space emerges thanks to the personality of Giotto (Florence? whom contemporaries were already praising because he “remutated the art of painting from Greek into Latin,” as Cennino Cennini wrote about Giotto’s art a curtain of light that isolates from the outside world of the earlier tradition illuminated by moonlight and stars in the dark night Giotto discovers how painting can depict what the eye sees wonderfully first experimented with in the two famous fake choruses in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua even before the invention of Renaissance perspective Giotto introduced the idea of trompe-l’oeil of painting capable of transforming space and creating illusionistic environments A space without figures and in which the outside world bursts in one thinks of the youthful Madonna of Borgo San Lorenzo and that of San Giorgio alla Costa or the later Majesty of All Saints the metaphysical sky is no longer infinite and The figures are as robust as sculptures and in the background Contributing to the introduction of reality into the painting is the use of light of which Giotto always identifies the source occupies space making it plausible and ’natural’ Contributing are the insights with which the master grasps the relationships between light and color his unprecedented approach to the everydayness of life as a lens thrown wide open again on reality reproposed in the truth of architectural and landscape spaces Precisely in this reappropriation of reality man and his feelings once again become the protagonists of painting A lively and revolutionary approach current even for modern and contemporary painting “The fundamental conditions in modern art are clearly evident in the 13th century in which the representation of space begins,” wrote Lucio Fontana in his 1946 Manifiesto Blanco Giotto’s new and illusory space is in fact transformed into a truly three-dimensional space The light that passes through it makes palpable the principle of the threshold the boundary place between visible and invisible according to the ancient concept of iconostasis that Fontana reinterprets in the radical synthesis of his gesture in the gold backgrounds of the fourteenth century as analyzed between the pages of Pavel Florensky’s The Royal Doors saw a materialization of the immaterial and that then crossed Lucio Fontana’s Spatial Concepts The dialogue proposed in the exhibition between a precious panel by Giotto namely the Two Apostles from the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice and a Spatial Concept by Lucio Fontana from the MART in Rovereto draws not only on Florensky’s speculations but also on a long literature focused on the courses and recourses of that magnificent obsession of painting for the representation of the absolute scientifically addressed by great scholars A tension toward the infinite and transcendent unites ancients and contemporaries and makes the dialogue between Giotto and Fontana significant and timely in the sense of an exemplifying lunge between the folds of this theme of universal art study Icon painting presupposes a metaphysics of images and light that finds sensitive heirs in the twentieth century And it is to this metaphysics that authors such as Wildt as well as international masters such as Mark Rothko or Yves Klein even turning to the use of gold as a vehicle toward the abstract “To discover the Cosmos,” Lucio Fontana repeated So by piercing this canvas-which is the basis of all painting-I created an infinite dimension.” The exhibition is produced by the MAN Museum in Nuoro and the scientific texts are by Andrea Nante and Paolo Campiglio Two Apostles (1325-1330; tempera and gold on panel MART Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto) © Lucio Fontana Foundation Andrew Jefford visits Italy’s ‘other’ wine island and discovers four reasons (or more) to take it seriously.. but the heart of Sardinia was still vividly green at the end of March A chaos of hills rippled away in every direction (almost 70 per cent of the island’s landmass is hilly with just under 14 per cent classified as mountainous) echoing to the sound-mosaic of hundreds of sheep bells roughly half the national herd and source of most of the milk for Italy’s Pecorino Romano PDO cheese Some 80 per cent of the cork produced in Italy This is the Mediterranean’s second largest island – pipped only by a Sicilian whisker; its southerly neighbour is just six per cent bigger Sardinia is only Italy’s fourteenth largest region (Sicily Their fascinating wines deserve to be better known The first is Vermentino: maybe the world’s best That’s a question which merits a separate answer – which I’ll try to provide in a later blog Italy in general grows much less of this variety than does France (Carignan) or Spain (Mazuelo but I suspect that many Languedocien wine growers would be shocked to discover the rich textures and flavours which this variety can acquire in Sardinia Carignan is often a piercing alto in Languedoc and best blended; in Sardinia it can be warm and comforting bass Never better than in the sandy soils of Sulcis and especially on the large island of Sant’Antioco (Italy’s fourth largest in its own right) connected to the Sardinian mainland by a bridge that much Carignano de Sulcis is ungrafted I’d be surprised if Sardinian Carignano didn’t feature somewhere in the top twenty of any serious competitive blind tasting of this variety Italian plantings of this variety are dwarfed by Spain’s Garnacha stocks and France’s walletful of Grenache – but Sardinia’s efforts with the variety are of compelling interest The variety is grown in a number of different locations and different soils but the best for me came from the granite uplands around Nuoro and particularly the lonely village of Mamoiada the variety sheds its lowland sweetness and takes on an airy freshness and stony purity the kind of mountain Grenache which tiptoes gracefully into Pinot territory can be a wine of unusual completeness and authority for this variety That would be Sardinia’s own indigenous varieties (it claims up to 150) and specialities (including both sweet dry and botrytised Malvasia di Bosa; as well as the complex Genetic intricacy is always of interest for its own sake and I enjoyed the examples I tried of these rare varieties often salvaged with great efforts (including the white Arvisionadu At least I thought that the twelve just mentioned were all indigenous — but a little research after I got home in Robinson Harding and Vouillamoz’s Wine Grapes suggested that Bovale Mannu and Bovale Grande are in fact the same as Carignano Bovale Sardo and Cagnulari are identical to Graciano one of the island’s leading viticultural researchers says that Bovale Mannu is in fact another synonym for Graciano while Muristellu and Bovaleddu are not in fact Graciano but a different variety altogether Cagnulari certainly seemed to make the most interesting wines after Vermentino Carignano and Cannonau – in a rather less stern and more voluptuous guise than Graciano can often assume Canny readers will have noted just how much vine material Sardinia seems to share with Spain and this is usually attributed to a long period of Aragonese rule in Sardinia (between the arrival of the Catalan army under Crown Prince Alfonso of Aragon in 1324 and the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713) Catalan is still spoken in the northwestern Sardinian port of Alghero point out that the trading Phoenicians may have been moving these grape varieties around before the Aragonese ever arrived – and they would dearly love to prove that Cannonau is in fact an indigenous variety which the Aragonese took back to Spain no comprehensive genetic proof of this – though some 2010 research by Manna Crespan and others claimed that Cannonau is more genetically diverse than Spanish Grenache Other researchers cited by the Wine Grapes authors The question will be tussled over for a while yet I haven’t mentioned the usual plethora of DO and IGT names since the island’s leading wines usually contain the variety name in the DO or IGT formula pan-Sardinian IGT ‘Isola dei Nuraghi’ — since no such island can be found in any atlas It’s a cultural reference to the mysterious towers called Nuraghe which dot Sardinia and which date back to 730 BCE to 1900 BCE was that since ‘Sardegna’ already featured in a number of DOC formulae would have been more helpful to consumers than sending them scurrying off for an island which doesn’t exist made from 100-year-old ungrafted bush vines on the island of Sant’Antioco and exposed to the ‘salty wind’ that gives the wine its Sardinian name The palate is very deep and fleshy for Carignan This is a much lighter wine than the Bentesali (50 year old vines and with 10 per cent Monica) yet it has superb concentration and tannic grip behind the rose produced from selected Sedilesu bush vines of 50 years or more in the best years only harvested in October and given a month’s maceration crushed stone and perfumed plum skins is followed by a dense seems to explode in the mouth and send granite shards force-of-nature wine is magnificent now but will surely see out a decade or two without trouble Some Sardinian Cagnulari can be very savoury but the Siddùra version is full of peppery fruits smooth-textured flavours – yet it grows in complexity and stature with time in the mouth; the finish is stony even tarry: this Cagulari smells nocturnal and byzantine with both red and black fruit notes freighted with more exotic incense spice and both satisfying and refreshing to drink A masterful rendition of what can often be a difficult grape to vinify with complex scents: both sweet and savoury it is another wine which seems smooth and rich when you first sip but which acquires texture and flavoury grain as it lingers in the mouth An astonishing young Cagnulari: intoxicating primary fruit and flower aromas come storming from the glass lush and luscious wine of huge exuberance and impact There is ample tannin to counterbalance its very sweet style of fruit (though the producer assures me the wine contains no residual sugar) The "Elibase 118" helipad of Nuoro it is fully operational for the flights of the Helicopter Rescue service to and from the San Francesco hospital The discussions initiated by the regional health department with Enac Areus and Ats led to the clarification that allowed the administrative procedure initiated by the aviation body to close positively on the authorization front without no discontinuity or repercussions on the health activity linked to the emergency and urgency The Sardinia Region in a note he specified that “the other helipads which have been approached by the Nuoro base in recent press leaks are exclusively private and the related authorization procedures are not the responsibility of the regional authorities does not use private helipads but uses any place that allows a safe landing on patients who need quick interventions; therefore any cancellation or disability to fly of any private helipad in the region does not interfere in any way with the helicopter rescue and air ambulance service " New director for the MAN Art Museum of the Province of Nuoro: she is Chiara Gatti, an art historian and critic, born in 1973. She will take the place of Luigi Fassi, who came to the end of his term and was appointed yesterday artistic director of Artissima.Born in Luino she has been artistic director of Palazzo Verbania in Luino scientific curator for the management of relations between the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the private Milanese fund of Regina Cassolo being donated to both institutions She was a member of the Scientific Commission of the Museo Civico Villa dei Cedri in Bellinzona; scientific curator of the Mendrisio Art Museum Among the exhibitions she has curated are the one dedicated to Luigi Pericle at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice in 2019, Mirabili Mostri. The Apocalypse according to Baj at the MA*GA Museum in Gallarate (2016-2017), Maria Lai On the Thread of Mystery at the San Fedele Cultural Center and Gallery in Milan in 2016 The Invasion of the Body Snatchers at the Regional Archaeological Museum of Aosta in 2016 Giacometti and the Shadow of the Evening at Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia (2013) For the MAN museum he curated two exhibitions Le futuriste 1912-1944 in 2018 and A un passo dal tempo Giacometti and the Archaic between 2014 and 2015 He also collaborates with La Repubblica for the newspaper’s cultural pages and has worked with Arte Mondadori and Treccani for the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Art the MAN Museum in Nuoro presents the exhibition Anna Marongiu the first museum retrospective dedicated to the work of Anna Marongiu (Cagliari The exhibition represents an important stage in MAN’s research on 20th-century Sardinian and Italian art.The exhibition develops around three cycles of illustrations dedicated to literary masterpieces created by Marongiu between 1926 and 1930: the complete series of plates of William Shakespeare ’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1930) illustrations of Alessandro Manzoni ’s I Promessi Sposi (1926) and plates of Charles Dickens ’ The Pickwick Circle (1929 consisting of 262 plates done in ink and watercolor forms the heart of the retrospective: on loan from the Charles Dickens Museum in London who died prematurely in an aviation accident in Ostia is one of the most original yet forgotten figures of the Sardinian art scene of the first half of the 20th century After studying in Rome and attending the English Academy in the capital Marongiu embarked on an artistic path that traversed multiple techniques such as drawing and burin with great capacity for experimentation characterized by a strong expressiveness of sign moved between the humorous and the dramatic finding originality and vigor in all the techniques she employed The exhibition dedicated to her in 1938 by the Galleria Palladino in Cagliari was one of the first solo shows of a woman artist in Sardinia and contributed to the artist’s further affirmation on the national scene participating in the Exhibition of Modern Italian Engraving in Rome in 1940 The exhibition is enhanced by a short film about the artist made by MAN and Film Commission Sardegna in collaboration with the Charles Dickens Museum and directed by Gemma Lynch A catalog published by Marsilio Editore will accompany the exhibition For all information you can visit the official website of the MAN Museum Home » experiences » Nuoro- foray into one of the most beautiful towns in Sardinia The Blue Air scandal will not stop Romanians' desire for a city break, so I have chosen to continue publishing tips for escapades. This time it was my friend's turn Ovidiu Oprea to share his experience in Nuoro I didn't manage to find out from those I talked to most of them are of the opinion that there are numerous evidences of Sardinian civilization since prehistoric times the Nuraghi culture being present almost at every step through conical tower-shaped constructions with the role of military fortifications or religious temples - here the opinions are divided When you ask about the "Athens of Sardinia" streets and stone walls built in the Roman era others about the numerous artists who left their mark on the cultural life of the city Nuoro is the capital of the province with the same name the sixth largest city in Sardinia and one of the most appreciated cultural and historical destinations on the island Somewhere in the center of Sardinia there is ample evidence of the existence of civilization Nuragic  developed in Sardinia many hundreds of years before Christ the few sites discovered in the Ortobene mountain area indicating an active social life with various agricultural and animal husbandry activities the Roman civilization appeared which left its mark on the region by building some settlements and a Roman road between Cagliari and Olbia passing right through the center The young lady Perhaps the most important legacy after the passing of the Romans is Sardinian language which is still spoken today being the most conservative Romance language Linguists say that it has many features in common with the Romanian language but these are lost with the passage of time the influences of the Italian language replacing the Sardinian dialect I couldn't tell the difference between Sardinian and Italian maybe I just felt a more broken and difficult to understand Italian even if it should have been the other way around each contributing as they knew and could to the development or decline of this region through the annexation to the Kingdom of Sardinia soon becoming an important administrative and cultural center In the last year I have been to Nuoro four times but this was due to the administrative opinion What has remained the same and impressed me every time The historic center with numerous buildings and streets built of stone squares with small tables in front of discreet brasseries pedestrian alleys that highlight the unique architecture of the center of Sardinia houses crammed into narrow alleys where only one car it can accommodate statues Mediterranean trees and millions of flowers in front of shutters drawn due to the midday heat Nuoro is famous thanks to artists such as Salvatore and Sebastiano Satta two of them each have a museum that can be visited, "Deledda Museum" where tourists can learn a lot of interesting things about the life and work of the artist who opened Sardinia to the world "Sebastiano Satta Square" is an open-air museum in memory of the poet who brought pride to the Sardinian people right in front of the house where he lived and died at the age of 47 "Museum of Life and Popular Traditions" from Sardinia is a must see place in Nuoro "Ciusa Museum" it is the place where you will lose yourself among the sculptures made by one of the greatest plastic artists is the place where a lot of permanent or temporary exhibitions of the great Sardinian artists are hosted National Archaeological Museum Giorgio Asproni" it is the place where you will get to know Sardinian history from prehistoric times from the first known sources to the present day Visitors will be able to get to know the lifestyle traditional costumes of the Sardinian people All these can be found on the east or west coast of Sardinia In Nuoro you will find a historic center that you will fall in love with buildings that look like an open air museum history but especially mountain landscapes that you will fall in love with on the spot there are many parks where you can admire the city from above, "Parco di Colle Sant Onofrio" where you will discover a lot of Mediterranean flowers and plants  "Parco Redentore" with the statue of Christ the Redeemer inaugurated in the presence of Pope Leo XIII is one of the most sought-after places in Nuoro At the end of last week was the Feast of the Saviour Nuoro is home to a lot of church settlements I can remember "Cathedral of Santa Maria dela Neve" with a very large altar and special paintings Another church is "Madonna dele Grazie", one of the most important churches in Nuoro The columns in the church are decorated with figures of animals and flowers In Nuoro there are many accommodation options from 3-star hotels to hotel-style apartments Each time I tested different accommodation the common denominator being the historic center I will come back soon with the last accommodation the hotel classification takes into account another standard many of the hotel apartments have minimum standard equipment which is mandatory for everyone staying in Nuoro The (in)consistency of the breakfast should also be added but because of the heat they melted on the plate and I gave them up in Nuoro there are several pizzerias that offer a lot of appetizing options They are generally open in the evening and are quite busy At some you stand in line for pizza and drinks Nuoro is famous for its traditional gastronomy many of them based on meat and cheese. Pecorino a mixture of minced pork with various spices We must not forget the famous bread for which you stand in line in the morning - bread guttiau Pasta is in great demand in Nuoro the maccarrone sauce the Nuorese version of gnocchi from Sardinia lamb and beef dishes are the most appreciated It is necessary to take into account the restaurant schedule almost all of them open at 09.00 and close at 13-14.00 Even supermarkets take this program into account How to get to Nuoro from Romania, but you can also find other tips on Ovidiu Oprea's blog I have been working in the media for more than 20 years I try to see what good things have been done on the coast what needs to 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Contact us: contact@funkytravel.ro A family tragedy unfolded this morning in the city of Nuoro He then used the same revolver to take his own life succumbed to their injuries a few hours later Carabinieri and Italian police forces arrived at the apartment building where the killer lived with his family It remains unclear which of the two boys has passed away Carabinieri and prosecutors are currently gathering evidence and information to understand what might have driven the perpetrator to commit such a horrific act Follow en.protothema.gr on Google News and be the first to know all the news See all the latest News from Greece and the World, the moment they happen, at en.protothema.gr