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Museo del Fischietto in Terracotta "Domenico Divella"
Puglia
The Whistle Museum in Rutigliano takes the visitor on a journey through the shapes, symbols and rituals of the area's millenary figurative tradition.
Culture and Art
Santuario Maria SS della Vetrana
Puglia
The Maria Santissima della Vetrana sanctuary is the religious symbol of Castellana Grotte. There, in 1961, the plague was miraculously defeated and the folk re-enactment of the Fanòve was born.
Religious sites
Intangible heritage and craft
Grotte di Castellana
Puglia
The Castellana Caves are a complex of underground cavies of karst origin formed 90 million years ago and considered among the most beautiful and spectacular in Italy.
Geological sites
Grotta di Sant’Oronzo
Puglia
The Cave of Saint Orontius of Turi is a wonderful hidden shrine with the largest Laterza majolica floor known today.
Geological sites
Santa Maria delle Grazie - Museo del Grano di Jelsi
Molise
The "MuFeG" Community Museum of the Feast of Wheat is located at the "Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie" and documents the deep bond that the Jelsese community has with the Feast of Wheat, which has been celebrated for over 200 years every 26th July in honour of Saint Anne.
Culture and Art
Villages and old cities
Museo del Profumo a Sant'Elena Sannita
Molise
The Perfume Museum is inaugurated on August 17, 2014, inside a stone building, obtained from a former school complex, renovated and transformed into several elegant rooms. Through testimonies, newspaper articles and small objects, you discover the history of this community: at the beginning of 900′ skilled knife-grinders on the streets of the Capital, today perfume shopkeepers in major Italian cities, especially in Rome and Naples.
Culture and Art
Villages and old cities
Osservatorio Astronomico di Castelmauro
Molise
On the summit of Monte Mauro, at 1042 m, a modern astronomical observatory is installed, equipped with the most advanced robotic telescope currently present in Italy, the CRT, which represents the state of the art in the sector.
Culture and Art
Villages and old cities
Ottoman cultural heritage of Omerbasic and Skanjevic mosques
Montenegro
85000 Bar
Omerbasic Mosque is located in the upper part of Stari Bar and was built in the 17th century. It belongs to the type of provincial, mahal mosques. Skanjevic Mosque is located opposite the northern large rampart between the aqueduct and the Omerbasic Mosque and is one of the few mosques in the Balkans that has stone minarets.
Religious sites
History and tradition
Museo Provinciale Sannitico MIBAC Campobasso
Molise
The Museum was founded in 1881 and was housed, together with the Provincial Library, in the Palazzo della Prefettura. The material was first catalogued by the archaeologist Antonio Sogliano, who published the inventory in 1889. Since then, the Museum and the Library have experienced alternating fortunes and many changes of location until 1995, when the Museum was set up in the premises of the eighteenth-century Palazzo Mazzarotta, in the historic centre of Campobasso.
Culture and Art
Villages and old cities
Villa Zappone a Larino
Molise
Villa Zappone is located within the archaeological park including the Roman amphitheater and the ancient spa. Owned by Filomeno Zappone, it is a building dating back to the early twentieth century, beautiful and elegant, characterized by a classical setting influenced by a Neapolitan liberty.
Culture and Art
Villages and old cities
MAACK Museo Kalenarte a Casacalenda
Molise
MAACK, which stands for Museo all'Aperto d'Arte Contemporanea Kalenarte (Open-air Museum of Contemporary Art), was founded in 1992 by architect Massimo Palumbo with the aim of supporting the promotion and dissemination of contemporary art in the territory. The twenty-one permanent installations created to date are set up in streets, views, woods and squares. A few years ago, the Museum was joined by the Franco Libertucci Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, whose collection currently consists of around 114 works, mostly paintings on canvas, sculptures and installations.
Culture and Art
Villages and old cities
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City Museum of Budva
Montenegro
85310 Budva
The museum activity in Budva dates back to 1962, when the archeological collection began to be constituted, based on the material discovered during the excavations of ancient necropolises (Hellenistic and Roman) near the Old Town, conducted in 1957-1958. The Museum of the City of Budva was opened in 2003., in the heart of the old city center and in 2005., was awarded the "Green Apple" award for the preservation and development of authentic architectural and other cultural and historical values in London.
Culture and Art
Intangible heritage and craft
History and tradition
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Old town Bar
Montenegro
85000 Bar
It is the largest urban agglomeration in ruins in Montenegro. In historical sources is first mentioned in the 10th century under the name Antibareos, but it is assumed that the settlement at this place existed before and appeared as a renewed Roman castrum in the 6th century near Procopius.
Villages and old cities
Architecture
Temple of St. John Vladimir
Montenegro
85000 Bar
It was built in honor of St. Jovan Vladimir, the first saint of Duklja and protector of the Town of Bar. There are three basic signs of his thousand-y...
Religious sites
History and tradition
Homeland Museum
Montenegro
85000 Bar
It was founded in 1959., in the castle of King Nikola, which allows visitors to visit the museum and one of the best-preserved monuments from the XIX ...
Culture and Art
Intangible heritage and craft
Piazzetta Palombo a Campobasso
Molise
It was inaugurated in 1896 with the idea of creating an organized space for a market where farmers from the surrounding countryside could display their goods. Originally it was called Piazza dei Commestibili. Built entirely with bricks, it has the shape of an "L". The inner perimeter is protected by arcades. The buildings that face you are low, of uniform height, deputies to accommodate stores and just, without overlapping residences.
Culture and Art
Villages and old cities
Museo Ferri Taglienti a Frosolone
Molise
Frosolone lived and lives with the working of scissors and knives even if the typology of the production has been modified in time. These objects have always invaded the national market, even if with greater intensity the southern regions. Currently they are heading with good results also abroad where they are appreciated for their precision, cut and tradition.
Culture and Art
Villages and old cities
Monumento il sogno Termoli
Molise
Termoli is a town that attracts tourists every year for its historical and naturalistic beauties and it is also a holiday resort for its equipped beaches. As for water sports the offer is wide and varied, ranging from sailing, with short boat trips to learn the maneuvers of navigation or you can take small trips to the Gargano or the Tremiti. At the southern waterfront there is a wide range of sailing schools for beginners or for sailors sailed.
Culture and Art
MACTE di Termoli
Molise
Almost sixty years have passed since Achille Pace realized his dream of giving his city a Gallery of Contemporary Art. He, a painter working in Rome in the field of historical abstractionism and informal art, together with Uncini, Biggi, Carrino, Frascà and Santoro, formed in Termoli in 1962, at the suggestion of Giulio Carlo Argan, Palma Bucarelli and Nello Ponente, the Gruppo Uno in which he worked until 1964. The MACTE is the result of the renovation and redesign of an old local market. Of the previous structure remains the plan of the building with a large circular central area where there was a small open-air square; in the side modules, once used for selling, today there are seven exhibition rooms that house the Termoli Prize Collection.
Culture and Art
Museo della Zampogna a Scapoli
Molise
"The International Museum of the Reed-pipe" named after its creator Pasquale Vecchione, is unique in the world for its peculiarity and characteristic for the extraordinary architectural recovery of the structure, cured in every aspect in the splendid scenery of Palazzo Mancini.
Culture and Art
Villages and old cities